Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe — and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 ...

FW MURNAU did a low-budget unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula titled Nosferatu (1922) which Stoker’s widow pursued with a vengeance, demanding all prints and negatives be destroyed ...

A British Overseas Territory lies in the middle of the South Pacific, midway between New Zealand and South America and is ...

David Crowley was one of only four survivors of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington after a fire burned the wooden boat ...

David Crowley was one of only four survivors of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington after a fire burned the wooden boat ...

A massive cargo ship that became stuck in the Delaware River earlier this week has been freed and is safely docked at the ...

Clocking in at 623 feet, the Algoma Verity is both pretty dang large but also far from the biggest cargo ship out there. It’s no Capesize carrier, that’s for sure. The boat is reportedly ...

China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels have continuously failed to obey the criteria for exercising the right of innocent passage in ...

The multi-purpose fleet of single and 'tweendeck general cargo ships is surprisingly large — numbering nearly 17,000 vessels totaling about 80 million dwt — and is estimated to carry more than ...

"For me, it’s just logical, you know?" This revolutionary cargo ship is shaking up the shipping industry with ancient tech: ...

A major road has been shut "until further notice" following a crash. Hertfordshire Police said the A41 heading northbound has ...