After English Captain Cook was killed by Hawaiians at Kealakekua, Hawaii, on Feb. 14, 1779, Captain Clerke took command of Cook’s ships Resolution and Discovery and prepared to resume Cook’s third ...

“[Captain Cook] moved to Whitby and he was apprentice to Captain John Walker who ran collier ships up and down the North Sea coast between Whitby, Newcastle and London then Whitby to the Baltic ...

"It's part of the job," says Captain Thomas Quehec ... or sharing meals in the ship's mess hall. Their entry into the profession is as diverse as their background. While Mr Goeieman followed his ...

Penguin was a small prefabricated armed sailing vessel which was carried to Port Egmont aboard the much larger and much more famous ship HMS Endeavour. Endeavour had carried Captain James Cook on ...

The police in Britain detained the ship’s captain on suspicion of gross negligence after it crashed into an oil tanker that was being operated by the U.S. Navy. By Megan Specia Reporting from ...

The Russian captain of a cargo ship which struck a tanker in the North Sea off the UK's northeastern coast appeared in court Saturday charged with gross negligence manslaughter. The US-flagged ...

A Russian national was revealed to be the captain of the cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker off the coast of England in an incident that sparked a massive fire, spilled jet fuel into the ...

LONDON — British police said Friday the Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker has been charged over the death of a crew member, who is missing and presumed dead.

LONDON - The Russian captain of a cargo ship involved in a March 10 crash with a tanker in the North Sea off the coast of England was charged on March 14 with gross negligence manslaughter ...

LONDON — The captain of a cargo ship that crashed with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody, the vessel’s owner said Wednesday, as it emerged that the ship ...

The cargo ship's owner Ernst Russ later said the captain was the man arrested. A man has been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter in connection with the ship collision in the ...