TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in Estonia and Sweden to commemorate 852 people killed in one of Europe’s worst peacetime disasters 20 years ago when the Estonia ferry sank ...

Maritime safety regulations are often shaped by hard lessons. Few accidents demonstrate this more clearly than the loss of the ...

Sept. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 490 B.C., the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon. A Greek soldier named Phidippides ran more than 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory and died ...

STOCKHOLM, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The case against two film makers charged with disturbing the wreck of the ferry Estonia, which sank in 1994 with the loss of 852 lives, was dismissed on Monday by a ...

Survivors and relatives of those who died in the Estonia ferry disaster called Saturday for a fresh inquiry into what happened, at memorial ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the incident.

STOCKHOLM — Sweden won't reopen an investigation into a 1994 ferry sinking in the Baltic Sea that killed 852 people in one of Europe’s deadliest peacetime sea disasters, after investigators in Estonia ...

VILNIUS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - An Estonian ferry disaster that killed 852 people in 1994 was probably not caused by hull damage to the vessel that was first revealed in a documentary this year, experts ...