The worst maritime disaster in the Red Sea occurred in 2006, when a ferry from Duba in Saudi Arabia to Safaga in Egypt sank after a fire on board and subsequent efforts to extinguish it.

History is full of some truly shocking disasters, ranging from man-made incidents to natural events that have torn through entire communities. Some ships in history have also met their untimely end in ...

Commemorations to mark Britain's worst maritime disaster - the sinking of the Lancastria - have been held. It is estimated between 4,000 and 6,000 people died when the ship was bombed by a Nazi ...

The worst maritime disaster in the Red Sea occurred in 2006, when a ferry from Duba in Saudi Arabia to Safaga in Egypt sank after a fire on board and subsequent efforts to extinguish it.

This is the worst maritime disaster in UK waters in peacetime since SS Norge off Rockall in 1904, and the worst involving a British ship since the Titanic in 1912.

Students watch an HDSI episode about the worst maritime disaster in United States history, the explosion of the Sultana steamboat in 1865. It was April of 1865. The Civil War was newly ended ...

One hundred years since the worst maritime disaster in B.C. history, a new exhibit is resurfacing the story of the largely forgotten tragedy. The Princess Sophia sank off the West Coast near ...

Students watch an HDSI episode about the worst maritime disaster in United States history, the explosion of the Sultana steamboat in 1865. It was April of 1865. The Civil War was newly ended ...

It was 70 years ago that the waters which divide Scotland and Northern Ireland witnessed one of Britain's worst maritime disasters. The Stranraer-Larne ferry MV Princess Victoria sank on 31 ...