It was the height of the Roaring Twenties and crowds jostled on New York’s Pier 54 to catch a glimpse of the renowned cruise liner RMS Laconia as it embarked on its inaugural voyage. Dressed in ...

One hundred and two years ago this coming March, the RMS Laconia, a Cunard passenger liner, arrived in New York City after 130 days at sea—and raised the bar for travel. The Laconia had ...

Did you know? In WWII the British troop ship, RMS Laconia, was sunk by a German U-boat. The U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein immediately ordered the rescue of as many survivors as possible ...

Jeremy Wade continues his major investigation to unravel what happened to over a thousand passengers who were stranded after the RMS Laconia torpedoed in the mid-Atlantic in 1942.