Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS ...
Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering ...
The huge steamboat steamed upstream against the powerful current of the Mississippi River. It was mid-April and the spring rains had fueled a torrent of muddy, brown water which overflowed the banks ...
Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The ...
In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship came dangerously close to one of the worst maritime disasters in recent history. While crossing Hustadvika, a stretch of Norway’s coast known for treacherous ...
VILNIUS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Estonia's government is to propose to Finland and Sweden renewing the investigation into the 1994 sinking of the ferry Estonia in which 852 lives were lost, Europe's worst ...
Ten years ago this week, one of the worst maritime disasters in American history took place in the Bahamas. Thirty-three crew members of the container ship SS El Faro sailed directly into Hurricane ...
The devastating flooding in Texas Hill Country has shocked and scared the nation, with Americans from coast to coast waiting for news from ongoing rescue efforts. Dozens of people have died – ...