The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were built.

Ancient Greek sailors, whose sails caught the winds of curiosity and ambition, were among the earliest to venture beyond ...

Some call it “dark tourism”. American wit and travel author PJ O’Rourke dubbed it “holidays in hell”. Visiting places of ...

For first-timers, cruise ship terminology can seem like its own language. From direction to parts of the ship, crew members use maritime terminology onboard that travelers won’t necessarily ...

A Gaza-bound activist aid ship caught fire and issued an SOS, after what its organizers claimed was an Israeli drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters in the early hours of Friday.

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

A ship with humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza was bombed by drones while in international waters off Malta early on Friday, its organizers said, and the Maltese government said ...

However, for years, they were believed to be pirate ships, the museum said in a news release. Fisherpeople who established themselves in the area in 1826 thought this because the ships’ remains ...

The group was safe and no injuries were reported, it said. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition accused Israel of attacking its ship. The group did not provide evidence for that claim or to show that ...