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Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing. Complete Story...
A ferry carrying nearly 200 passengers sank after colliding with an oil barge in a river in Myanmar, killing at least eight and leaving more than three dozen missing, officials said Monday.
Aaron Brooks never figured he'd take a ferry to a game. Not in the NBA, anyway.
An overloaded river ferry capsized on its way to a Buddhist ceremony in Cambodia, killing 17 passengers in a tributary of the Mekong River, an official said Sunday.
Ashley Pillar, 30, is the last of the old-fashioned river ferrymen, using a 15-foot pole to propel a barge carrying people and cars across the James River in Virginia. But its voyage through the past may soon be part of the past itself, a casualty of ebbing state funds.
A Philippine air force helicopter plucked to safety Monday a woman who drifted for about 30 hours in choppy seas after the sinking of a ferry that left nine dead. Only one of the nearly 1,000 people who were on board is now unaccounted for.
Wailing mourners from Tonga dropped a marble plaque inscribed with 74 victims' names into the ocean above the wreck of a ferry that sank this month in a disaster that shook the tiny South Pacific nation.
Mozambique's government says an overcrowded ferry went down off the coast in a northern province, and 17 people are feared drowned.
Tonga may have to abandon attempts to recover the bodies of 93 people believed to be trapped inside a ferry that sank off the coast of the South Pacific country because of the expense of the operation, officials said Thursday.
Searchers located the wreck Wednesday of a ferry that capsized off Tonga a week earlier and found no immediate signs of the 93 people on board who are still missing and presumed dead.
Two large passenger ferries collided outside a port south of Stockholm on Thursday, injuring 15 people, police said.
Authorities say a transformer failure caused a Staten Island ferry to lose power and slam into a New York City pier earlier this week.
The nation's last known hand-poled ferry has gotten a reprieve to keep it afloat for three more months.
Fire broke out Friday on an Italian ferry carrying more than 500 people to the island of Sicily, forcing all passengers to evacuate by lifeboat to another ferry and a coast guard vessel.
Hundreds of people living aboard a docked passenger ferry were evacuated Thursday after a fire broke out in the engine room, police said. There were no reports of injuries.
The wealthy owner of a ferry that sank three years ago in the Red Sea, killing more than 1,000 people, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and negligence Wednesday and sentenced to seven years in prison.
A small ferry carrying about 60 passengers capsized on a river in southern Bangladesh early Thursday, killing at least 27 people, officials said.
A Lake Champlain ferry crashed into the pilings near its dock on the Vermont shore Friday, injuring at least three people.
A small ferry overloaded with holiday shoppers sank in central Vietnam on Sunday, killing at least 40 people ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year.
Rescue teams returned empty-handed Tuesday from intense search missions in choppy central Indonesian seas, where more than 230 people are missing after a ferry capsized in a cyclone over the weekend.
Rescue teams battling strong waves and winds Tuesday pulled seven more bodies — all children — from seas in the northeastern Philippines where a ferry capsized, drowning 30, officials said.
About 25 passengers are safe after being rescued from a commuter ferry that became stranded on the Potomac River north of Washington.
Helicopters evacuated ferry passengers traveling from Finland to Stockholm in the Baltic Sea early Tuesday after a fire broke out in the engine room, rescue officials said.
A passenger boat that capsized during a storm, drowning 11 people just 200 yards offshore, left a port in the central Philippines without clearance, the coast guard said Friday.
Indonesian Rescuers Comb Sea for Ferry Survivors; 29 People Die Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian rescue workers are combing the sea off Sumatra island for survivors after a ferry sank in rough weather yesterday, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
Swedish ferries equipped with 'sinking' life ringsMany of the life buoys on Swedish passenger ferries have a defect that causes them to sink when they hit the water.
BBC NEWS | UK | My school journey by bike, ferry and busAround the world millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a proper education. In the fourth report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Lorna Gordon talks to 11-year-old Jordan, whose long journey to school every morning involves a bike ride, a ferry, and a bus.
Retracing John Brown's incendiary footstepsAs many as 300 people will follow the footsteps of John Brown, 150 years after the radical abolitionist launched the raid that kindled the Civil War.
Man's ferry flap sends wife, kids and dog plunging into riverA man's family plummeted into the Main River in their car on Thursday evening after a misunderstanding caused his wife to back off of a ferry, police said on Friday.
Last pole-driven ferry faces murky futureFor more than 130 years, ferrymen have jammed poles into the James River's gravelly shallows to push the Hatton Ferry across to other side. The unique calling is now possibly days from extinction.
Baby born on ship gets free travel for life A baby born on a passenger ferry will get a lifetime of free travel - fingers crossed she doesn't suffer from seasickness.
John Brown's fearsome pikes still fascinateThe spears that John Brown ordered for his abolitionist army were fearsome, primitive things. The pikes were made for slashing and impaling those who resisted his planned slave rebellion in 1859.
The United States has long been a symbol of freedom for many people around the world.
Passengers missing after Bangladesh ferry flipsA small ferry packed with about 60 people capsized in southern Bangladesh early Thursday after being rammed from behind by a sand-laden trawler, killing at least one person, police said.
NY ferry captain saves kids after plane crash: babies crying was 'best sound' - Los Angeles TimesFerry Captian reach over to save babies for the raft at Plane Crash on The Hudson
Swift response, heroics in airliner's river rescueThe ferries that ply the waters between New York and New Jersey were among the first rescue craft on the scene Thursday when Flight 1549 splashed down after engine failure.
Indonesia says 246 missing after ferry sinksJAKARTA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Indonesia's transport minister said on Monday that 21 survivors had been found after a ferry sank at the weekend in bad weather in the east of the country, while 246 people were still missing. Transport Minister Jusman Syafi'i Djamal also told a news …
Woman at helm of ferry had no idea where it was before disaster, judge toldMSF's Top Ten Humanitarian Crises of 2008The report underscores major difficulties in bringing assistance to people affected by conflict.
Zimbabwe's Ambulance SamaritanWhat I charge all depends because for those who can pay, I charge 210 South African rand [about $21].
Bryan Ferry dating son's exBryan Ferry's son is reportedly the jealous guy now that love's the drug for his Roxy Music frontman father - who's now dating his ex. Ferry, 63, has been spotted out and about in London with Amanda Sheppard, 27, who dated his son Isaac, 23, five years ago.
Change is afoot in bustling BremertonAn hour-by-hour itinerary for a day trip to rapidly changing downtown Bremerton.
Arrests sought over Senegal ferry A French judge has issued international arrest warrants for nine Senegalese officials over the 2002 sinking of a government-owned ferry. One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three people died when the Joola sank in high seas on 26 September 2002.
'Two-faced' TV anchor spied on co-starA former US newsreader charged with hacking into the personal email of his glamorous younger co-anchor was a man obsessed, if an FBI investigation is any measure.
700 missing after ferry capsizesOnly three survivors have been found after a ferry with more than 700 people onboard capsized near the central Philippine island of Sibuyan, according to a Philippines Coast Guard official on Sunday.
Providence-Newport Ferry EndsRhode Island's 2008 tourist season may signal the end of a nine-year federally-funded pilot project that brought a 146-passenger hi-speed catamaran ferry service between Providence and Newport.
Hawaii Super FerryA well written paper on the pros and cons of the Hawaii Superferry running interisland trips between the Hawaiian Islands.
Threat forces evacuation of ferry terminalPolice evacuated the BC Ferries terminal at Tsawwassen Sunday and arrested a 32-year-old foot passenger who was overheard saying that he was going to set off a bomb on the Spirit of Vancouver, destined for Sidney.
Biggest And FastestTHE largest and fastest freight ship on the Channel has started operating out of Poole Harbour. Brittany Ferries' £50 million vessel Cotentin will sail to Cherbourg during the week and from Poole to Santander in northern Spain every weekend.
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