The light was ultimately extinguished in 1878 ... The crew blew up the ship rather than succumb to the pirates. American Shoal Lighthouse: Manned for a brief time during the 1980 Mariel Boat ...

In 1967, it was finally sold for scrap and was to be towed to Europe. On Nov. 5, nearly 54 years to the day it ran aground on ...

"The inherent beauty of lighthouses, starkly etched against the sky, is undeniably a big part of what makes them so alluring," says Eric Jay Dolin, author of Brilliant Beacons: A History of the ...

Flashpoint for World War III: The Scarborough Shoal “Harassment and intimidation” are how Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., has described China’s actions throughout the South China ...

The bad news: the current Navy budget will not make a stronger military or a larger U.S. fleet a reality. The good news: ...

Last month, the Philippines—an ally with whom America has a defense treaty and security commitment—was forced to withdraw a coast guard vessel it had anchored at Sabina Shoal, an atoll well ...

These days the US is seeking access to places where "light and flexible" operations ... was home to 15,000 US troops and two of the largest American military bases in Asia, at Clark Field and ...

Anguilla has approximately 35 beaches, but the most popular one is Shoal Bay East. This northern shore has long entertained daytrippers from St. Martin-St. Maarten, so there are plenty of bars and ...

Chinese ships fired water cannon at a Philippine supply mission to the Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed Spratly ... the US and in early 2023 granted American troops wider access to Philippine ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's coast guard said on Friday the Philippines sent a civilian ship to ferry daily necessities to a warship at the Second Thomas Shoal that Beijing says was illegally "beached" ...

It comes from a huge pile of the city's waste. As organic matter disposed of at the Shoal Bay Waste Management Facility breaks down, it produces landfill biogas. Renewable energy company LMS ...