Residents and local officials in northern Mali say a ferry boat trying to land at a Niger River town in the Timbuktu region hit stones and sank in an accident that left dozens of people dead.

In October 1991, the fishing vessel Andrea Gale sailed into a rare convergence of weather systems in the North Atlantic. A ...

In April 2001, the fishing vessel Arctic Rose capsized and sank in the frozen Bering Sea, killing all 15 crew members on ...