For centuries the Baltic Sea has been infamous among seafarers, with a number of shipwrecks lying on the bottom of the sea to ...

The recent Estonia disaster in the Baltic Sea—the worst ... will swiftly fill up and cause the ship first to roll over and then sink. All the stages in the sinking of a RoRo once water has ...

Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster in an article published ...

The cruise ship captain behind the tragic Costa Concordia disaster gave an odd reason when he asked about where he was when passengers onboard were left to perish. A total of 33 passengers died ...

The explosion was so powerful that it tore a massive hole in the ship's hull. Unlike the Titanic, the Britannic began sinking much faster, disappearing beneath the waves in just 55 minutes.

Fourteen of the sixteen crew members were rescued by the Spanish Coast Guard, leaving two sailors missing when the ship sank. The presence of the research vessel Yantar at the wreckage site of the MV ...

Harriet Strahl, a PhD student in our History department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster. Through her detailed analysis of contemporary ...

Of the 2,240 passengers and crew aboard, roughly 1,500 were killed. Now, a new study has suggested that interference from the Northern Lights that fateful night may have contributed to the ship’s ...

They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong ...