Transport

On September 27 1994 the ferry Estonia set sail on a night voyage across the

Many people living in Great Britain still remember learning of the appalling disaster that befell

As Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev struggled to push through his radical reform program while at

In 1980, shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini had seized power and declared Iran an Islamic Republic,

Sea ferries are integral to the transport network linking the hundreds of islands which make

When the Townsend Thoresen car ferry Herald of Free Enterprise left the Belgian port of

A routine domestic flight from Tokyo to Osaka ended in the world’s worst accident involving

One of the positive legacies bequeathed to India by the Raj (as the British rule

The Liverpool-registered merchant ship MV Derbyshire was a state-of-the-art bulk carrier when she was launched

The worst airline disaster on American soil took place in May 1979 at Chicago’s O’Hare

The small Mediterranean resort of Sant Carles de la Rapita in southern Catalonia has long

The holiday island of Tenerife was the scene of the world’s worst aviation disaster in

It was a morning much like any Tuesday in New South Wales – until disaster

The London Underground system – not altogether affectionately known as ‘The Tube’ – had seen

It’s said that bad luck always comes in threes, and so it proved in 1966

In the early 1960s the pride of the US Navy’s submarine fleet was SSN-593, the

St John’s Station cannot be reached from the road, but is accessed by a pedestrian

October 8 1952 had been a foggy morning, but as the local passenger train from