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Rare Titanic love letter offers insight into life on doomed ship
A rare letter written onboard the RMS Titanic is going up for auction, detailing what life was like during the final days of the ill-fated ship. The letter was written...
Couple's life savings go down with sunken sailboat
Their boat sank — but their dream did not. A ditzy Colorado couple whose vessel went underwater just a day after they embarked on what they hoped would be a...
The real-life love story on the Titanic
Many people are familiar with the emotional moment in Titanic when Kate Winslet’s character sacrifices her place on the lifeboat to be with Leonardo DiCaprio's character. But did you know...
Two rescued after boat sinks in Queens
A man and woman fishing on a boat off Queens on Sunday had to be rescued when their craft started sinking, police said. The 55-year-old man and 34-year-old woman were...
At least 9 dead in Colombian tourist boat disaster
At least nine people were dead and 30 feared missing after a Colombian tourist boat suddenly sank in the waters near Medellin, officials said. The boat, which was carrying more...
Colombian tourist boat sinks with nearly 200 on board
A Colombian tourist boat suddenly sank into a reservoir with about 200 on board — leaving a number dead and countless missing. Firefighters and rescue helicopters scrambled to save scores...
100-year-old Coast Guard shipwreck found off California coast
One hundred years after the Coast Guard Cutter McCulloch collided with another ship and sank, it has been found. The ship, which hit a passenger ship and sank near the...
JFK's WWII boat may be at the bottom of the Harlem River
There may be an important part of World War II history at the bottom of the Harlem River. William Doyle, author of the John F. Kennedy biography “PT 109” (William...
Strange twist to mystery of missing cargo ship
The giant freighter that mysteriously vanished in the South Atlantic may have capsized without warning because of a chemical change in its cargo. The 586,429,617-pound South Korean bulk carrier Stellar...
8 men rescued from sinking ship near Staten Island
A holiday weekend fishing trip nearly turned deadly for eight men when their boat was swamped by a wave and sank off the coast of Staten Island Saturday. Two crew...
Edmund Fitzgerald sinking remains a mystery 40 years later
It was exactly 40 years ago Tuesday when "the winds of November came early" and took the legendary Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 souls to the bottom of...
Cruise ship pulled from China river as rescuers collect bodies
JIANLI, China — The banged-up, white-and-blue Eastern Star emerged from gray waters of the Yangtze River on Friday as Chinese disaster teams raised the capsized ship with cranes to better...
Chinese media banned from covering dubious ship rescue
Rescuers on Wednesday cut into the hull of a capsized Chinese cruise ship in a desperate attempt to reach more than 410 people believed to still be trapped two days...
Dozens dead after Russian trawler sinks in icy waters
A Russian fishing vessel sank early Thursday in the frigid waters off the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula – killing at least 56 of its 132 crew members and leaving 13...
South Korean ferry death toll rises to 150
JINDO, South Korea — The grim work of recovering bodies from the submerged South Korea ferry proceeded rapidly Wednesday, with the official death toll reaching 150, though a government official...
Ferry crew's actions were 'murderous': South Korean president
JINDO, South Korea — South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday that the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry committed "unforgivable, murderous acts" in the disaster, which...
Ferry's third mate was steering ship for first time: prosecutor
MOKPO, South Korea — The captain of the ferry that sank off South Korea, leaving more than 300 missing or dead, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of negligence and abandoning...
Majority of Korean ferry victims were students, teachers
Three-quarters of the passengers aboard the Korean ferry that sank Wednesday came from a single high school now shrouded in sadness. Danwon HS in South Korea’s Ansan province near Seoul...
Doomed teens texted parents from sinking Korean ferry
With water quickly flooding the decks and a mammoth South Korean ferry about to sink, desperate students took to their smartphones Wednesday to text their last goodbyes. “Mom, I want...
Hundreds of kids missing after South Korean ferry sinks
MOKPO, South Korea — A ferry carrying 462 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea's southern coast on Wednesday, leaving more...