In January 1945, as Soviet forces tore through Eastern Europe, the former cruise liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff was thrown into ...

While the sinking of the Titanic is widely remembered, it represents only one chapter in a long history of maritime disasters. Several other shipwrecks resulted in devastating loss of life and exposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hilary Challis spent a year researching the lives of people who died in the disaster after discovering her relative was involved ...

Graph illustrating the stark increase in global trade (exports and imports) in the late 1800s, with an exponential increase (dashed colored line) becoming particularly marked by circa 1980. Numbers ...