The disaster is feared to have killed up to 800 people, making it one of the deadliest shipwrecks in decades of seaborne migration from North Africa towards Europe. Italy has begun raising the wreck ...

Based on the reverence the Titanic has in public consciousness, you would think that it was the worst shipwreck of all time. In reality, there was a shipwreck 30 years later that made the Titanic look ...

It was far from the deadliest shipwreck in the history of the Great Lakes. But none are more enduring. Nov. 10 marks the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened by the continued loss of life in the Aegean Sea. In the latest incident, on 27 October, four people drowned and 31 were rescued following a shipwreck ...