The sinking of the Doña Paz stands as the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. The Filipino passenger ferry collided with the MT Vector, an oil tanker, sparking a catastrophic explosion ...

The 1994 sinking of the ferry Estonia is up there with the Titanic as one of the worst maritime disasters in history. This week, a Swedish-Estonian-Finnish investigative team said the shipwreck, which ...

On Dec. 6, 1917, more than 1,700 people were killed when an explosives-laden French cargo ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with ...

On the night of Sept. 8, 1923, seven U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, California. They weren't under attack or in combat. They were conducting a high-speed training exercise along the ...

Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was among Great Lakes disasters attributed to "the gales of November," as singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot later described them. November ...

The Bay Theater is showing a special presentation of Disaster at Devil’s Jaw, which will benefit the Morro Bay Maritime Museum on Monday, May 19, at 5:30 p.m. The documentary has local significance.