The lives of more than 30 people who drowned in a small boat crossing in the Channel could have been saved if the French coastguard had responded to a distress call, a damning report has found. At ...

A passenger ship’s voyage turned into one of the deadliest maritime disasters ever recorded. When it sank, all 364 people aboard were lost, with not a single survivor. This is the tragic story of the ...

Surrounded by bodies in the unforgiving waters of the English Channel, Issa Mohamed Omar made the agonising decision to let go of the wreck of the small boat he had been clinging to and make a break ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People place candles around a list of names of migrants that have died since 1999 while trying to cross the English Channel, ...

On the night of September 27, 1994, the cruise ferry Estonia was sailing from Tallinn to Stockholm when disaster struck in the Baltic Sea. As powerful waves battered the ship, the bow visor failed and ...

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London — The deaths of more than 30 migrants who drowned attempting to travel from France to Britain in a small boat were avoidable, an inquiry into the worst disaster of its kind found on Thursday.