Smaller vessels unable to reach South Asia or Turkey are turning into environmental disasters that taxpayers have to clean up ...

On Dec. 6, 1917, more than 1,700 people were killed when an explosives-laden French cargo ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with ...

The ship's captain is the master of all - but sometimes they got it wrong. Here are the fascinating tales of two of history's ...

Annual reinsurance contract for members of the big mutual insurers will see costs for most other ship types fall ...

Attractions recreating the ocean liner's fateful voyage are drawing in crowds. But are they valuable historical experiences, ...

Titanic, Greenland, and Twister are all among the all-time greatest disaster movies that about as close to perfection as the ...

DETROIT – A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month ...

House Member Deddy Yevri Hanteru Sitorus says, currently, disaster victims need concrete aid from the central government and ...

On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, ...

Two people were rescued from a half-sunken boat off the island of Crete on Saturday evening, but 17 others died in the wreck.

Second shipwreck in days claims lives of Indonesian fishermen: One dead, four missing on boat that sinks 200 nautical miles from Aveiro ...

The 1994 sinking of the ferry Estonia is up there with the Titanic as one of the worst maritime disasters in history. This week, a Swedish-Estonian-Finnish investigative team said the shipwreck, which ...