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 ...

What began as a luxury Caribbean cruise quickly turned into one of the most infamous maritime disasters in modern history after an engine room fire left the ship powerless in the Gulf of Mexico. With ...

On September 28, 1994, the passenger ferry MS Estonia sank during a violent storm while traveling from Tallinn to Stockholm, becoming one of Europe's deadliest peacetime maritime disasters. After ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recreational vessel seen on the San Francisco Bay on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, a day after the Volare, a 49-foot cabin cruiser ...

1859 "Royal Charter" October 26 - Liverpool and Australian Navigation Company's "Royal Charter" runs aground onto rocks off ...

Panic and confusion as the ship began listing Survivors told how the ship, the Filo Jet, began listing and taking on water after they heard a number of loud noises from below decks. “The crew came, ...

The sun had yet to set on the Sicilian port city of Messina. Its citizens were nonetheless fully awake. Nature’s alarm clock did not come from the sky. This time, it came from the ground. During the ...

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 ...

Netflix has once again potentially traumatized fans with Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea, a disaster-cruise documentary released on July 10, just one year after a pair of stories from cruise ships that ...