After a few days traveling north, three of the ship's strained boilers exploded in the early hours of April 27, 1865, killing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cruise ships promise luxury, leisure, and escape—but sometimes, those dreams go disastrously off course. Behind the glossy ...

— -- The fast-growing cruise industry is facing one of its biggest tests in years after this week's Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy. Many Wall Street analysts, travel agents and ...

The SS Morro Castle disaster wasn’t just a fire—it was a full systems failure at sea. This video explores how the ship burned, how panic spread, and why evacuation became chaos. It explains the safety ...

A little-remembered maritime disaster that occurred off the coast of Westerly in 1907 will be the topic of a free program Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Babcock-Smith ...

January 17, 2012 • The death toll from Friday's crash off the coast of Tuscany has risen to at least 11. The ship's captain is accused of manslaughter. He allegedly abandoned the ship before some ...

Sri Lanka's highest court has ordered the owners of a Singapore-flagged container ship to pay $1 billion for a spill it called the "largest recorded marine plastic spill in the world." According to ...

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 ...

Cruise ships promise luxury, leisure, and escape—but sometimes, those dreams go disastrously off course. Behind the glossy brochures and endless buffets are stories of chaos, confusion, and survival ...