It will be 82 years ago tomorrow — Monday, Feb. 3 — in 1943 that the U.S. Army transport ship USAT Dorchester was torpedoed by a German submarine. Among the 700 that perished were four Army ...

In the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 1943, as the U.S. transport ship USAT Dorchester sank beneath the waves of the chilly Labrador Sea, troops who managed to make it onto lifeboats reported a ...

USAT investigation: How many ships hit bridges, lose power every year? Data shows jarring numbers on the rise. Less than an hour later, at 1:25 a.m. the two electrical breakers that supplied most ...

The Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home commemorated the saga of the four chaplains Monday morning, which surrounds the sinking of the USAT Dorchester. The Dorchester was a troop ship ...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 28, 2014) -- It was Feb. 3, 1943, and the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester was one of three ships in a convoy, moving across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to an American base in ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Spanning the length of four football fields and rising 20 stories, the giant container ship that tied up here is an awe-inspiring sight. The CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin ...