J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" depicts the callous cruelty of the slave trade. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The ship’s captain, William Thomas Turner, believing himself to be the last living person on board, climbed the halyards to keep from being washed away and to remain with his ship to the end.

The inside and outside lanes of the Turner Turnpike eastbound at mile marker 179 in Lincoln County are blocked.

As the title of his painting suggests, he claims to have set sail on a ship called the Ariel, but researchers have been unable to find proof of the vessel’s existence. Some believe Turner got ...

Typhoons. Scurvy. Shipwreck. Mutiny. Cannibalism. A war over the truth and who gets to write history. All of these elements converge in David Grann’s upcoming book, “The Wager: A Tale of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A wreck on the Turner Turnpike is causing traffic issues in both directions. A commercial vehicle wreck was on fire along the Turner Turnpike near NW 136th and N.

The ship is slowly disintegrating as deep-sea microbes ... this is the beginning of a new chapter." Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy ...

On October 5, Sam Turner, a principal investigator and maritime archaeologist for SEARCH, was already on site when an excavator first exposed the shipwreck’s wood. “Sam asked the operator to ...

The Richmond papers of Monday say that DICK TURNER, late of Libby Prison ... at Spey Harbor and became a total wreck. The crew were saved. BOSTON, Tuesday, June 20. The mails per the steamship ...