THE day before St. Patrick's Day 1960 was cold, wet and miserable. But at Harland and Wolff no-one noticed the weather much. Three hundred invited guests and 11,000 onlookers had gathered to view the ...

In the early hours of the morning just weeks into the Falklands War, aboard the SS Canberra, Brian Short took his place to watch over a handful of the thousands of Argentine prisoners of war (POWs) ...

Dr Teddy Mayner, ship’s surgeon who carried out vital work during the Falklands War – obituary Under Mayner during the conflict, the SS Canberra treated 172 patients, both British and Argentine, all ...

SS Canberra: Thirty years ago, a luxury cruise ship and her civilian crew became the unlikeliest heroes of the Falklands War. In the first of two extracts from a new book, Andrew Vine tells their ...