A Russian cargo ship has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea after an explosion onboard, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Dec. 24. The explosion occurred in Ursa Major’s engine rooms just after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a statement on Dec. 20, Oboronlogistika said the cargo ship was headed to Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok carrying two cranes for the port weighing 380 tons each. Ursa Major had left ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a statement on Dec. 20, Oboronlogistika said the cargo ship was headed to Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok carrying two cranes for the port weighing 380 tons each. Ursa Major had left ...