Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hilary Challis spent a year researching the lives of people who died in the disaster after discovering her relative was involved ...

I haven’t revisited the horrible event from July 24, 1915, the Eastland maritime disaster, which has an association with ...

Have you ever heard of someone who seemed to dance with danger and always walked away unscathed? Meet Violet Jessop, the woman who became known as “Miss Unsinkable” after surviving not just one, but ...

He commissioned the Vasa to be built with two gun decks, 64 bronze cannons and a crew of 450 men. On 10 August 1628 the ship set sail on its maiden voyage, but only a few metres offshore, as everyone ...

In December 1811, a Royal Navy frigate sank off the coast of County Donegal, and the mystery surrounding the final resting place of part of the wreck may now finally have been solved. Recent sand ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka were trying to head off a potential environmental disaster Thursday as a fire-damaged container ship that had been carrying chemicals was sinking off of the country's main ...

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 ...

Recent sand displacement caused by high winds at Ballymastocker Bay in County Donegal has revealed what some believe to be the remains of the HMS Saldanha In December 1811, a Royal Navy frigate sank ...