Hilary Challis spent a year researching the lives of people who died in the disaster after discovering her relative was involved Looking up at the memorial to the disaster which claimed the life of ...

He commissioned the Vasa to be built with two gun decks, 64 bronze cannons and a crew of 450 men. On 10 August 1628 the ship set sail on its maiden voyage, but only a few metres offshore, as everyone ...

Some maritime disasters unfolded directly in front of cameras, capturing terrifying moments of panic, flooding, collapse, and death in real time. Massive ships tilted violently as passengers and crew ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...