South Africa has won a legal claim over $43 million worth of treasure from a World War II shipwreck that was found off the country's coast by a British exploration company, the U.K. Supreme Court said ...

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UK-based broadcaster Kash Kumar Solanki and his son Emile, who have been trying to locate the survivors of the 1942 tragedy, have been contacted by the son of the third survivor, Chotoo Khoosal (98). ...

Abdul Gaffer Osman, 91, is one of a few known, living survivors of the little-known tragedy of the final voyage of SS Tilawa in 1942 Standing on a ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean during World ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. A sunken treasure’s destiny, long disputed in courtrooms instead of the high seas, has finally been settled. On May 8, the U.K. Supreme Court (UKSC) ...

With the support of the Maritime Mumbai Museum Society (MMMS), we were able to organise the first ever commemoration to officially acknowledge the tragedy, and memorialise the loss of 280 lives. The ...

The SS Tilawa, which carried 752 passengers, 222 crew members, and also 600 tonnes of cargo, including 60 tonnes of silver bullion, was bound for Durban via Mombasa and Maputo. The ship never made it.

Efforts by one Indian-origin family are bringing a massive maritime tragedy from 1942—tied to Mumbai’s own history—to light. Stories of a hundred other tragedies are yet to be told The SS Tilawa, ...