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 ...

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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 ...

Mayflower, Constitution, Titanic, Bismarck – these are all the names of legendary ships. History-changing ships. Ships that created legends and stories that were more than just their sails, ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Geographic explorer and Storytelling Fellow Tara Roberts documents Black scuba divers and archaeologists finding the lost wrecks of ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.

Life at sea used to depend on more than just sailors and supplies. Ships often had cats on board, and they weren’t there for company. On crowded wooden vessels, rats and mice could ruin food, chew ...