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 ...

While the sinking of the Titanic is widely remembered, it represents only one chapter in a long history of maritime disasters. Several other shipwrecks resulted in devastating loss of life and exposed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...