In November 1913, a massive storm system slammed into the Great Lakes with hurricane-force winds, towering waves, and blinding snow. Ships already at sea found themselves trapped for days, unable to ...

The lives of more than 30 people who drowned in a small boat crossing in the Channel could have been saved if the French coastguard had responded to a distress call, a damning report has found. At ...

Surrounded by bodies in the unforgiving waters of the English Channel, Issa Mohamed Omar made the agonising decision to let go of the wreck of the small boat he had been clinging to and make a break ...

In 2020, USS Bonhomme Richard caught fire while moored in San Diego during a major upgrade, and what should have been a containable emergency turned into one of the worst non-combat naval disasters in ...

London — The deaths of more than 30 migrants who drowned attempting to travel from France to Britain in a small boat were avoidable, an inquiry into the worst disaster of its kind found on Thursday.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the manslaughter conviction of the captain of the Conception dive boat who was in charge when 34 people died in ...

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 ...