Guests on the world’s largest full-rigged sailing ship get a taste of what it was like 100 years ago. ... climbs the rigging with the goal of reaching one of the Royal Clipper's crow's nests.

In the 16th century, explorers’ sailing ships were the backbone of the Age of Exploration, enabling voyages across vast oceans to discover new lands, establish trade routes, and map the unknown world.

Tall Ships Rhode Island, a Newport nonprofit, bought the steel hull in September from two Canadian businessmen with the goal of converting it by 2011 into a towering 130-foot-tall training ship ...

The historic ship from the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan is undergoing a $10.6 million restoration at Caddell Dry Dock & Repair Co. Inc. in West Brighton.

Two people were killed and 22 others were injured after a sailing ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on New York City’s East River. The Cuauhtémoc, a three-masted Mexican Navy training ship ...

Sail last dominated freight hauling during the clipper ship era of the mid-1800s -- with vessels averaging 19 mph and carrying up to 1,500 tons -- until coal-powered ships gained an edge.