Who could forget the images that went viral last year of a cruise ship’s stern looking like a top-heavy birthday cake? So colorful and cartoon-like were the decks layered with twisting ...

Archaeologists are confident they have found the wreckage of an 800-ton Dutch merchant ship that sunk off the coast of Australia 168 years ago. The Koning Willem de Tweede was lost near Robe ...

Ships conjure the romance of sailing the seven seas. Since time immemorial, people have put to sea in some of the most graceful machines humanity has ever built. From Greek triremes cutting ...

HELSINKI—Smashing ice is straightforward—except when it is more than 10-feet thick and you’re using a ship, even one designed for the job. If an icebreaker’s hull is the wrong shape ...

European cruise giant MSC is expanding into the US with its new World America ship. The company tailored the mega-ship, now sailing out of Miami, to better suit the American market. That's ...

COMING UP. WELL ENJOY A SUNRISE FOR NOW, RIGHT? TALL SHIPS WILL NOT SAIL TO NEW HAMPSHIRE’S SEACOAST THIS YEAR. SAIL PORTSMOUTH SAYS CONSTRUCTION AT CITY PIERS MEANS IT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HOST ...

Construction workers excavating the site of a former fish market in Spain made a breathtaking discovery in the form of a medieval wooden ship. The Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) reported ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central America. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus ...

“Around an hour later, as the ship entered port, three tugs were connected but with persistent winds now on the starboard quarter, up to 30° of port helm was required to maintain the course.

Great Britain, unsurprisingly for an island nation that sees a legendary amount of rain, has quite the water affinity. There's just no separating the British from their seafaring heritage, as has ...