On the night of September 27, 1994, the cruise ferry Estonia was sailing from Tallinn to Stockholm when disaster struck in the Baltic Sea. As powerful waves battered the ship, the bow visor failed and ...

The lives of more than 30 people who drowned in a small boat crossing in the Channel could have been saved if the French coastguard had responded to a distress call, a damning report has found. At ...

Surrounded by bodies in the unforgiving waters of the English Channel, Issa Mohamed Omar made the agonising decision to let go of the wreck of the small boat he had been clinging to and make a break ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People place candles around a list of names of migrants that have died since 1999 while trying to cross the English Channel, ...

In 2020, USS Bonhomme Richard caught fire while moored in San Diego during a major upgrade, and what should have been a containable emergency turned into one of the worst non-combat naval disasters in ...

Graph illustrating the stark increase in global trade (exports and imports) in the late 1800s, with an exponential increase (dashed colored line) becoming particularly marked by circa 1980. Numbers ...

The Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) has conducted intensive ship compliance validation and monitoring operations in Region 10 as part of a nationwide maritime safety crackdown following a recent ...

London — The deaths of more than 30 migrants who drowned attempting to travel from France to Britain in a small boat were avoidable, an inquiry into the worst disaster of its kind found on Thursday.