All news on the topic: Yachts

04 Sep 2025 689

$1M luxury yacht sinks off Turkey just 15 minutes into maiden voyage

A yacht worth nearly $1 million sank in the water off the shore of Turkey just 15 minutes after its maiden voyage as panicked passengers and crew jumped overboard.

Crime

28 Aug 2025 506

Two Ukrainians charged with smuggling migrants into UK via yacht

Two individuals from Ukraine have appeared in court, accused of smuggling migrants into the UK on a yacht.

World

21 May 2025 862

Yacht linked to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich suspected of smuggling coal to China

DPRK-flagged vessel sails to China while broadcasting as Roman Abramovich pleasure boat docked thousands of miles away

News

14 May 2025 570

Missing yacht search underway in Scotland: rescuers scour Wigtown Bay coastline for over 5 hours

Coastguard crews are searching for an overdue yacht off the south-west coast of Scotland.

World

27 Dec 2024 525

Two sailors die on separate yachts during Sydney to Hobart race - as 15 other boats withdraw

Race organisers said 15 other yachts - including favourite Master Lock Comanche - withdrew from the Sydney to Hobart competition over poor weather conditions.

World

25 Nov 2024 772

Over a dozen missing after tourist vessel sinks in the Red Sea

More than a dozen people are missing after a boat sank off the coast of an Egyptian holiday hotspot.

14 Oct 2024 781

Saudi prince’s £70m superyacht crashes as the vessel, once owned by Trump and featured in a Bond movie, is seen ploughing into a dock

A £70 million superyacht owned by a Saudi prince crashed into a dock in Tunisia, causing significant damage.

World

04 Oct 2024 889

Bayesian superyacht sinking: Mike Lynch died from drowning, inquest reveals

The cause of death for three other British victims, who died after the vessel sank off the coast of Sicily, is still under investigation.

World

21 Sep 2024 863

The safes on tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht, Bayesian, may contain data related to intelligence services

Divers searching British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht off Sicily have found safes holding potentially sensitive intelligence data, sources have claimed.

World

03 Sep 2024 920

Bayesian yacht passengers’ cause of death revealed as more details of horror sinking come to light

US lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda were among seven people who died when the Bayesian superyacht sank in a sudden, violent storm off Sicily on August 19

World

28 Aug 2024 603

Two more crew members from Mike Lynch yacht under investigation

Italian prosecutors said to be investigating engineer and sailor as well as captain over sinking in which seven died

World

24 Aug 2024 592

Italian authorities reveal initial findings in Bayesian manslaughter investigation following tragic sinking, citing ’mistakes’ made

Italian prosecutors release initial findings in manslaughter investigation into the Bayesian disaster, following claims that the luxury yacht was "unsinkable."

World

20 Aug 2024 708

Chef Recaldo Thomas dies in Bayesian superyacht sinking; first photo of him released

The body of a man recovered near the Bayesian yacht is believed to be that of Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian-Antiguan chef who was working on the boat

News

20 Aug 2024 733

Divers ’open hole’ in sunken superyacht - but have just 10 minutes to search for bodies

The Bayesian superyacht is still largely intact on the seabed, but the depth makes it difficult to access, and the time window divers have make searches incredibly tight.

World

20 Aug 2024 727

Final moments of the Bayesian yacht as it is battered by a storm before sinking

Newly released CCTV footage has shown the moment the Bayesian superyacht was engulfed by a suspected waterspout.

News

19 Aug 2024 790

Mike Lynch’s teenage daughter among those missing after the Bayesian yacht sinks in Sicily

Mike Lynch’s daughter is among the seven people still missing after a British-flagged superyacht capsized off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of this morning, it was reported.

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