The Flying Dutchman is the legend of a ship which brings death in her wake, and is cursed to forever sail the unforgiving seas. Learn the full story here.

Read about the legendary ghost ship which sailed the Arctic Seas for nearly 40 years without a crew.

In Germany a submarine was called an U-boat, or “Unterseeboot”. At the outbreak of World War One, Germany had 33 of them. With the possibility of rich prizes off the British and Irish coasts and in the Channel, in early 1916 an entire flotilla of 24 U-boats was launched in the North Sea. One of them was the U-65, and from the very beginning there was talk about “jinxes” and “hoodoos”.