QUINCY — If you don’t know your way around the decks of the USS Salem, you might never run into John Connor. The retired marine's office is a tiny room that, more than half a century ago, was fit for ...

Barry Clifford remembers the yarns his Uncle Bill used to spin at a New England fish shack during his childhood, detailing the swashbuckling adventures and tragic loss of the Whydah — one of the world ...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guinea ship, as the vessels were also known, the ...

Corrections & Clarifications: In a previous version of this article, the name of the Swedish city of Gothenburg was misspelled. The MV Astoria is the oldest cruise ship currently sailing, and Cruise ...

The USS William D. Porter — “Willie Dee” to her crew — was a War World II destroyer, and is arguably the unluckiest ship in the history of the world. She lasted less than two years, until her ...

The late 1800s was a period of intense research and development in many industries, including naval engineering. Many novel and ambitious designs were proposed with a mixture of success, but one stand ...

The first concrete vessel was a rowboat built in 1848. Frenchman J.L. Lambot at the time constructed a series of rowboats using a procedure he called “Fericement.” Fericement is a forerunner of what ...

Santa's Rocket Ship was used for holiday season promotions at malls in the Southern half of America for several decades before ending up in a former junkyard that is now an amusement park in Alaska.

As the massive cargo ship that downed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month navigated the globe, its sister ship was never too far away. The Dali, a 984-foot, Singapore-flagged vessel, ...

"One Hand For The Ship…and the other for yourself” is a familiar sailor’s caution, relating to the dangerous task of “laying out” along a yard on a square-rigged sailing vessel, standing on the ...

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