I would imagine the US Navy, of all things, would have some pretty tight restrictions on what you can and can't do with an official connection on board one of its ships, especially when on a ...

Did Ming shipbuilders succeed in constructing ships 40 percent longer and 65 percent wider than any known wooden vessel? Further discoveries by maritime archeologists may hold the answer.

On the shores of the Avon River, 80 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Mother Nature has uncovered rich layers of 19th century ...

They all had a single mast, and double-ended hulls with curved ... Norwegian pine to oak from Ireland. The planks of wood from these ships were preserved and eventually reconstructed in the ...

Guides say no wood was used and these do not represent ... The evidence is found in the contemporary iconography of Roman sailing ships showing masts, yards, sails, and rigging.

Read on to discover history's most iconic ships, from Darwin's HMS Beagle to the legendary Titanic and more... Dating from ...

Fire races up the mast ... The wooden longship, the pride of the lord, is now ashes in the field. But the idea of the Vikings, the romance of these intrepid northerners who built great ships ...

With five fully rigged masts, the ship is recognized in Guinness World Records as the largest square rigger in service today. Modeled after the historic clipper ships, Royal Clipper travels under ...

HMS Victory has survived the cannonballs of Napoleon's navy, being rammed by another warship, a World War II ... unwelcome discovery that much of the wooden structure was affected by rot.

Visitors to the National Gallery of Art’s marquee exhibition, “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” encounter two very ...

How the Colosseum, filled with water and stocked with predators, becomes the scene of epic naval combat in Ridley Scott’s ...