waterway and maritime disasters

The Coast Guard rescued two men whose boat was sinking near Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse in Annapolis Sunday afternoon, officials said.

The Coast Guard transported a 58-year-old woman off a cruise ship on the Potomac River Friday after she was injured in a fall.

For two years, the crew of the USS Jeannette was trapped in ice north of the Bering Sea. They staged musicals, played football, ate seal meat (which they dubbed "arctic turkey") and even performed surgery on the eye of a crew member afflicted with syphilis.

The Royal Navy ship whose "bombs bursting in air" inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" two centuries ago may have been discovered in Arctic waters Sunday.

Emergency responders from multiple agencies participated in an exercise Wednesday that simulated the capsizing of a water taxi in the Inner Harbor near Canton, a drill meant to familiarize rescue personnel with how such responses work.

Three people have died in Maryland waters in as many days, and a U.S. Coast Guard search is underway for another who went missing Monday

A series of severe storms blew through the Baltimore region Monday evening, bringing heavy rain, lightning and strong winds that factored into at least one death, officials say.

Four people were rescued when their boat overheated, caught fire and began to sink on the Patapsco River Sunday morning.

Six people were rescued from the cold, choppy Magothy River on Sunday after their small boat was swamped with waves and sank, police said.