Roland Matthews and others
Contributor
Roland Matthews--along with Kieran Fogarty, Fid Backhouse, Joe Toussaint, Janet Zoro, Jackum Brown, and Sal Oliver--is a contributor to 501 Most Devastating Disasters (2013), where an earlier version of his entry first appeared.
Primary Contributions (4)
Kursk submarine disaster, one of Russia’s most serious naval disasters. Over the weekend of August 12–13, 2000, while on a naval exercise inside the Arctic Circle, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea with all hands on board. The entire 118-strong crew perished…
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