A fire aboard the SS Grandcamp initially gave little indication of the catastrophe about to unfold. Loaded with thousands of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history killed as many as 1,800 people near the end of the Civil War, but it earned scant attention. News of ...

BALTIMORE — Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore's harbor for East Africa. Officials said no one was ...

An external explosion most likely caused a South Korean navy ship to split apart and sink three weeks ago, officials said Friday, leaving open the possibility that a North Korean torpedo or mine may ...

Preliminary assessments point to a drone strike behind the second blast The second explosion aboard the vessel, located about 40 nautical miles southeast of Iraq's Umm Qasr port, was caused by an ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The French ship's insistence on staying away from shore may have seemed strange to anyone watching the encounter, but to those on board, it was ...

The deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history killed as many as 1,800 people near the end of the Civil War, but it earned scant attention. News of Sultana’s explosion on the Mississippi River was ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1865, a massive explosion just outside of Memphis lit up the night sky in the deadliest ship disaster in 19th-century United States history.