Netflix's new documentary, Shipwrecked, revisits the 2012 Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster. The 2012 incident claimed 32 ...

The Chinese cruise ship that capsized Tuesday on the Yangtze river with 458 people on board is the latest disaster to hit the maritime transport and leisure sector in recent years. Here are other ...

In 1986, the passenger ship SS Admiral Nakhimov collided with a cargo vessel in the Black Sea, triggering one of the fastest maritime disasters in history. Within just 7 minutes, the ship began to ...

A couple have recounted how they endured the most catastrophic maritime disaster since the Titanic while protecting their ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In 1865, a massive explosion just outside of Memphis lit up the night sky in the deadliest ship disaster in 19th-century United States history.

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 ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...