Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history killed as many as 1,800 people near the end of the Civil War, but it earned scant attention. News of ...
A fire aboard the SS Grandcamp initially gave little indication of the catastrophe about to unfold. Loaded with thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, the ship exploded in the port of Texas City on ...
BALTIMORE — Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore's harbor for East Africa. Officials said no one was ...