There's a certain romance about life on the open seas, and so much of our world today was built off the back of sea-faring vessels. From Tudor warships to the remarkable ocean liners that defined a ...

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 ...

Metro Detroiters can take a trip through history this weekend to see what life on a traditional sailing ship was like as part of the Sail Detroit festival by the riverfront. Four tall ships — enormous ...

“Small but Mighty” is an armada of toys and models representing 400 years of maritime history. Peter Siebert, president and CEO of Independence Seaport Museum, stands among the model ships on display ...

History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But before its days of piracy, the ship played a role in the transatlantic slave ...

Maritime history dates back to the very dawn of humanity, with some scientific circles suggesting we've been sailing the high seas since the late part of the Early Pleistocene, roughly 900,000 years ...

GRAND MARAIS, MI -- Michigan maritime history is rich with stories of ships battling the Great Lakes. In many cases, the lakes won. Lake Superior notoriously was a heavy weight champ, its beaches ...