After a few days traveling north, three of the ship's strained boilers exploded in the early hours of April 27, 1865, killing ...

The charges include falsely flying a Guyanese flag and failing to obey a Coast Guard order to halt the ship for boarding by U ...

The French military diverted the ship last month and anchored it in the port of Fos-sur-Mer as part of an investigation into ...

French authorities have let the seized oil tanker GRINCH leave territorial waters after the company owning the vessel had to pay a penalty worth "several million euros," French Foreign Minister ...

U.S. military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker​ in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon ...

U.S. military forces boarded a second sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it thousands of miles from the Caribbean, the Department of Defense (DOD) said Sunday. The DOD described ...

When the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground 30 years ago, some of south Wales' best-known beaches turned black. Thousands of seabirds were killed off a globally significant stretch of coastline for ...

Waynesboro native Carl Woodrow Schrader was a cook on the Atlantic Sun when it sank after being torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II.

Preliminary findings showed that vehicles on board the ferry at the time of the accident, including trucks and motorcycles, did not pass through weighing stations as required, nor were they weighed in ...

The American motor tanker MS Atlantic Sun was enroute to the US on February 2, 1943 from Liverpool, England after delivering over 156,000 barrels of high-octane gasoline for the Allied […] ...

On April 18, 1988, the U.S. Navy destroyed two Iranian oil platforms, sunk one frigate and a missile boat, crippled a second ...