The U.S. said this week that it attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. In the 1980s, Iranian ...

In early February 1948, a strange and urgent morse-code SOS, three dots, three dashes and three dots again, came from a Dutch cargo ship, the S.S. Ourang Medan that sailed through the Strait of ...

Step aboard the abandoned Blue Horizon casino ship, a once-glamorous floating palace that launched in the 1990s as part of the SunCruz Casinos fleet. This “cruise to nowhere” sailed just off Florida’s ...

The remains of the SS Selma, made of concrete, sits abandoned in the waters outside Galveston.

Disney Cruise Line is in an unprecedented era of expansion. The fleet is about to welcome its fourth new cruise ship in four years, and its eighth in total since the enterprise began in 1998, with an ...

An Isle of Wight born Admiral of the Fleet made the disastrous decision to scatter Arctic convoy PQ-17.

Capt. Robert A Lewis wrote the account during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...

On big cruise ships, there are endless options for on-shore entertainment. But these 15 cruise excursions could actually make your trip much more memorable.

His latest find, which he announced to the public in February, is Lac La Belle, a luxury steamer that sank in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago. The ship has been on Ehorn’s radar from the ...

The area is known for its natural splendour but also supernatural legends from 'fighting fairy women' to witches who 'sell ...

Like Iraq before it, today’s conflict is being sold cheaply. History suggests the bill could run into the trillions.

Alligator jaws have an incredible amount of crushing force but not very many pounds of opening force,” Burdette says.