Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cruise ships promise luxury, leisure, and escape—but sometimes, those dreams go disastrously off course. Behind the glossy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...