Summary and Key Points: U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, particularly the Nimitz-class, are enormous vessels designed for resilience and power projection. With a flight deck the size of four football ...

The ship was transporting supplies and soldiers along the coast when it was torpedoed by German U-boat U-861 on the night of June 19, 1944. The wreck was first reported 14 years ago but was ...

Between March 1917 and the end of the war a month after the Leinster was hit, U-boats sunk 13 million tons of shipping bound for Britain, with the loss of about 5,000 lives. It was a policy which ...

nicknamed the Big U, will make a 14-day journey to Mobile, Ala. There, workers will remove hazardous materials, including the fuel still sitting in its tanks, so the ship can be sunk safely.

A sunk cost is money, time ... expensive eight-week online course at a prestigious university. In week two, you realize you do not enjoy the course, and it won't benefit your end goals.