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 ...

Herlaugshaugen is one of Norway's largest burial mounds, measuring over 60 meters (almost 200 feet) in diameter and rising to ...

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 ...

This ill-fated ship has been called the Titanic of its day. More than 900 years ago, William, the only legitimate son of Henry I of England, was returning from France with a huge entourage. At ...

Mayflower, Constitution, Titanic, Bismarck – these are all the names of legendary ships. History-changing ships. Ships that created legends and stories that were more than just their sails, ...

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 ...

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Launch of reinforced-concrete tanker SS Cuyamaca at San Diego Bay, June 12, 1920. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center, AC030 Collection) In the aftermath of World War I, the United States ...

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 ...

I have raised the subject of SL-7’s as museum ships before in a cursory fashion, but lunch with John Riddle, a retired Sea-Lander, convinced us that it deserves a bit more consideration. Based on ...