While the sinking of the Titanic is widely remembered, it represents only one chapter in a long history of maritime disasters. Several other shipwrecks resulted in devastating loss of life and exposed ...

In December 1811, a Royal Navy frigate sank off the coast of County Donegal, and the mystery surrounding the final resting place of part of the wreck may now finally have been solved. Recent sand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Dec. 6, 1917, as coverage of the ship explosion in the Harbor of Halifax, Novia Scotia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hilary Challis spent a year researching the lives of people who died in the disaster after discovering her relative was involved ...

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 ...