The investigation into why a cargo ship capsized and sank off the north coast of Scotland has begun.

The search for the eight missing crew members of a sunken cargo ship has been suspended.

Four people are being treated in hospital after the upper deck of a car ferry collapsed in Britain.

A mother and her three children are being treated in hospital for serious injuries following a speedboat accident which killed her husband and daughter.

A cargo ship ran aground on the Co Antrim coast after the watchkeeper fell asleep in his seat, an accident investigation report revealed today.

UP to 33 fisherman were lucky not to die in the space of just four days off the Irish coast after their vessels sank due to major safety faults.

The international crew of a fishing boat that sank off the south west coast of Ireland could not speak a common language, accident investigators said today.

A three masted tall ship avoided serious damage today when it struck one of the buttresses of Tower Bridge on the River Thames in London.

A man has been found dead after a ship caught fire in a North Sea port, emergency services said today.

Rescued crewmen of a fishing trawler which sank off the coast of Donegal were today preparing to fly home as an inquiry was launched into the tragedy which killed six of their colleagues.