Ship was en route to Vladivostok, says owner Was reported to be carrying port cranes, ice-breaker parts 14 crew rescued, two still missing Cause of engine room explosion unknown so far MOSCOW, Dec ...

On December 16, the tanker Mercury lost propulsion due to a failure of its main engine, around 30 miles northeast of Simushir ...

An explosion sank a sanctioned Russian cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea on ... of the Russian Foreign Ministry said the vessel, Ursa Major, sank south of Spain after a blast in the engine ...

First [Russian cargo ship] Sparta broke down off the coast of [the Syrian city of] Tartus, now Ursa Major appears to have suffered a more severe breakdown." There are still many unknowns about the ...

Image: Survivors of the sinking Russian cargo ship Ursa Major. Pic: Reuters On leaving St Petersburg it had indicated that its next port of call was the Russian port of Vladivostok. The operator ...

A Russian vessel, Ursa Major, sank in the Mediterranean after an explosion, leaving two crew members missing. The ship was operated ... who supervised the country's cargo "ghost ships" fleet ...

The ship was used to evacuate Russian troops from Syria. On Christmas Eve, the Ursa Major cargo ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea near Spain, which was used to ...

The Ursa Major is listed on MarineTraffic.com as a 124.7-meter long general cargo ship. It is owned by a subsidiary of Russia's Oboronlogistika, which belongs to the defense ministry and also ...

A Russian cargo ship has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria, with 14 crew members rescued and two others still missing. The Ursa Major vessel had been heading to the eastern ...

The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria following an explosion in its ...