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Exciting session at Legacy Workshop will feature results of the U-Boat Project’s Marine Life surveys

As part of the U-Boat Project, 1914-18: Commemorating the War at Sea Bangor University have acquired new underwater footage of selected Great War wreck sites to better record and understand their current condition, and the marine life now inhabiting them. Dr Tim Whitton We look forward to sharing video clips and marine...

On this day one hundred ago, Holyhead’s Stanley Sailors’ Home provided the best welcome in Wales for a sunken steamship’s crew

The Stanley Sailors Home and Reading Room was built at the behest of W. O. Stanley and opened by the Bishop of Bangor in 1871 with accommodation for shipwrecked sailors. When the Elder Dempster steamship SS APAPA was torpedoed by U-96 on 28 November 1917, the survivors were welcomed by Commandant Jane Henrietta Adeane,...