After a few days traveling north, three of the ship's strained boilers exploded in the early hours of April 27, 1865, killing ...

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On August 4, 2020 an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon rocked the city and was felt across the country. The Orient Queen was ...

In January 1945, the overcrowded liner Wilhelm Gustloff fled the Soviet advance with thousands of refugees aboard. Struck by torpedoes in the freezing Baltic Sea, the ship sank in less than an hour.

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 ...

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