For centuries, the world's oceans served as the primary highways of trade, exploration, and communication. Long before modern navigation systems existed, sailors faced enormous challenges when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world had been living under the threat of nuclear war for the better part of a decade when President Dwight D. Eisenhower had an idea: Let’s give atomic power a makeover. Ike came up with Atoms ...

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 ...

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 ...