Minister for Defence, Senator David Johnston has today met with his Japanese counterpart, Akinori Eto, in Tokyo to discuss deepening defence and security cooperation between the two countries. This is ...

German submarines – called U-boats – had been ... sunk almost a third of the world's merchant ships. (Source: National WW1 Museum and Memorial, USA.) The SS Maplewood being torpedoed and ...

Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany’s borders.

At the time of construction, the RMS Titanic was a behemoth among ships, hailed as “unsinkable” by its builders. On the morning of April 14, 1912, Captain Smith cancelled a lifeboat drill in favor of ...