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

The Undersea Research Associates team has announced the discovery of the wreck of the James C. Carruthers, lost on Lake Huron ...

She was just 9 weeks old when she was lowered to safety in a mail sack, surviving the worst maritime disaster in history.

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

I grew up on the beaches of Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. Visits to Tenby were my family's summer ritual: sand between our toes, paddling in rockpools, strawberry syrup on ice cream.

"It's like gladiator academy," DA says. At Oklahoma's Allen Gamble Correctional Center, a medium security prison, inmate homicides are rampant, many preventable, investigation reveals.

Over four weeks of public hearings in March 2025, officers involved in the UK’s search and rescue response gave oral evidence ...

On this day in 1907, the steamship Larchmont collided with the coal schooner Harry Knowlton in the worst maritime disaster in Rhode Island’s history. Between 150 and 200 lives were lost according to ...

A little-remembered maritime disaster that occurred off the coast of Westerly in 1907 will be the topic of a free program Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Babcock-Smith ...

The 1990s had plenty of hits and critically acclaimed films over the course of the decade, but it also had its share of ...

Tom Robinson receives funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the Natural Hazards Commission. The recent deaths of eight people in two New Zealand landslides has left the ...