The catastrophe was the result of rampant fraud at the end of the Civil War.

A cargo ship has been struck by an unknown projectile in the Gulf, south-east of the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Monday that the ship was hit by a ...

A Panama-flagged MSC container ship has been damaged by a large explosion off Iraq, raising fresh concerns over the safety of commercial vessels operating in the northern Arabian Gulf as regional ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In 1865, a massive explosion just outside of Memphis lit up the night sky in the deadliest ship disaster in 19th-century United States history.