Maurice Atkins had two WWII-era oil-stained life jackets — the first saved his life when the Empress of Asia was bombed off ...

For a land-locked state, Wyoming has its share of naval history, including two battleships that served in the Civil War, ...

The screw line-of-ship Tourville, was also at Fort de France ... From the St. Kitts Gazette, 13th. The U.S. sloop-of-war Alabama anchored in our Roadstead on Wednesday morning last, from Guadaloupe.

Montrose in Angus became pivotal to events in the 1745 Jacobite rising given the deep harbour and pool of men ready to lend their support to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

Mystic Seaport Museum is working to open an exhibition space to show its American Watercraft Collection of rare vessels in ...

they realized that it was most likely a sloop, a smaller ship that’s often used to escort convoys in times of war. Although this painting shows sloops of Dutch origin, the design is similar enough to ...

311 North Broadway in 2025 The Sarvent family included a Dutch immigrant, quarry owners, Revolutionary War veterans, slaveholders, a ship carpenter ... row-galleys attempted to steal Abram Sarvent’s ...

Andrew Lawler contends that Thomas Jefferson wanted to destroy urban, multiracial, capitalist Norfolk partly because it ...

On his return he laid the keel in Hart’s yard at Boston, near the Charleston Bridge, and worked on the ship until she was successfully launched. During the war of 1812, Mr. Athearn sailed a fast sloop ...

In the icy chaos of the Baltic Sea during the final months of World War II, the cruise liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff attempted a ...

The new policy aims to revitalize a U.S. shipbuilding industry that has fallen well behind production levels of its rivals ...

World War II submarines usually had a distinct look, shaped more like boats than the conventional crafts. But was there a ...