In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack.

In The Heart of the Sea is based on the true story that inspired the novel Moby-Dick. The whaling ship The Essex sank, with ...

For the crew of the Essex, it was a day flecked with hope: The lookouts atop the whale-ship saw spouts, telltale signs of nearby sperm whales. But within hours, tragedy, rather than bounty ...

SALVAGED items from an Essex shipwreck were showcased on a primetime BBC Two history ahead of major exhibition later this year. Treasures found on The London Shipwreck were featured on Digging for ...

A relic which an RAF technician said he salvaged from the wreckage of a famous 18th Century ship is set to go under the ...

Only three days into their voyage, a violent squall battered the Essex, terrifying the inexperienced crew. The ship began to creak and listed dangerously. Captain Pollard managed to reach the ...

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Historic England commissioned the shipwreck survey ... they have gone," the licensed diver from Leigh-on-Sea in Essex said. "Just a couple of weeks ago I spotted a complete leather shoe.

A FRAGMENT from a ship involved in the mutiny on the Bounty has been discovered in a woman’s attic after being salvaged by her RAF technician dad. Then-RAF chief technician John Coleman, from Benfleet ...

The HMT Windrush which brought Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean and arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948v - ...

The skipper Paul Prichard lashed himself to the wheel as the Essex ship went down, spun out of control by Paul Strang. The Zimbabwean leg-spinner netted his third five-wicket haul of the season as ...

A relic which an RAF technician said he salvaged from the wreckage of a famous 18th Century ship is set to go under the hammer. John Coleman, from Benfleet in Essex, said he retrieved the large ...