Many men from the Caribbean did join the Merchant Navy, but sailors from the British Empire were paid about one third of the wages that white sailors were paid. It is estimated that approximately ...

Instead it occupies what was formerly a part of the British Empire - and its former owners after throwing off their imperial rulers want it back. But a recent ruling from the UN's highest said ...

At that time, the Royal Navy base on Cobh's Spike Island was one of three Treaty Ports, some of the last areas of southern Ireland to be handed back by the British on the eve of WWII in 1938.