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The vessel, the MV Rabaul Queen, went down off Papua New Guinea’s northeast coast.

An overloaded ferry capsized off east Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island. It was Tanzania’s worst maritime disaster in at least 15 years.

A passenger ferry sank in the northern Philippines in a second sea disaster in three days. Six bodies, including three children, were recovered and at least 22 people were missing Sunday....

A triple-deck ferry packed with hundreds of travelers heading home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 37 dead and scores missing, authorities said Saturday....

Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm ...

Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard a crowded Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra ...

Eighty-five passengers were missing and feared dead Saturday after their ferry flipped and sank off Tonga, with only two bodies recovered more than two days after the disaster.

Rescue officials searched the South Pacific's waters for 33 people missing after a ferry sank during the night off the coast ...

A small ferry overloaded with passengers sank in central Vietnam on Sunday, killing at least 40 people including seven girls and 27 women.

A sunken Indonesian ferry may have been carrying 103 more people than the 267 listed on the ship's manifest, officials say.