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 ...

Historians are examining evidence that links piracy and slave trading on the Atlantic. North Carolina Public Radio's Leoneda Inge reports. The Americans has a well-known history with slavery, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

History's greatest ships have shaped entire eras, steering the course of civilisation and leaving lasting legacies. Some now rest on the ocean floor, remnants of grand voyages and battles, while ...

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.

Seventy years ago, the largest armada in history delivered U.S.., British and Canadian troops onto the beaches of Normandy to push the Nazis out of France. Just one ship among the 5,000 that took part ...

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 ...

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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