On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

The immigrant who died last midnight when his cayuco sank off the southern coast of El Hierro was buried this Wednesday in the El Pinar cemetery, the cemetery that serves the port of La Restinga.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies, sailors ...

Many aid organisations say that is a massive undercount, with Caminando Fronteras, a Spanish NGO that aids migrants, saying 18,680 have died trying to reach Europe.

After 1975, Spanish cinema witnessed a reinvention under the likes of Pedro Almodóvar, Bigas Luna, and Fernando Trueba. Their storytelling legacies are carried on, and the industry continues to make ...

Consequently, the designers looked at the location and its proximity to the shoreline and decided where the shipwreck had been would be a great place to build a golf hole – right by the ocean – and ...

A treasure hunter is accused of selling eight of 50 rare gold coins — worth over $1 million — found in a 2015 dive on the famous 1715 Fleet of Spanish ships that wrecked off the Treasure Coast ...

Academia Hernando is inviting adult learners to explore the fascinating history of Spanish shipwrecks off the Florida coastline with its upcoming Spring Lecture Series. The next lecture, titled ...

Hans Grundberg, the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, welcomed the “heartwarming” reports that the Houthis had “put an end to the arbitrary detention” of the ship’s crew for 14 months.