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A dive team has identified a shipwreck off the coast of Nantucket as a World War I-era fishing boat that sank nearly 100 ...
PS Australian Star, touted as Australia's first five-star river cruise ship, is much more than a luxurious vessel. It's a unique combination of contemporary luxury, vintage charm, and historic value.
A contract is awarded to build a new replica of Henry Bell's steamship "Comet" that first sailed from Port Glasgow in 1812.
Ships harnessed winds as the primary means of propulsion for many centuries before steam engines took center stage in the 1800s; it's quite poetic how maritime travel was greenhouse gas-free long ...
Working model, scale 1:12, of twin-cylinder steam driven double trunk screw engines, as extensively used for screw propulsion on the HMS 'Minotaur' and 'Northumberland' (1865-1868), construction ...
The steam engine from the warship Monitor was brought to the surface last week, 138 years after the celebrated Union ironclad went down in a storm. A crane aboard a 300-foot ocean-going barge raised ...
We all like to spend some holidays visiting art museums, historic sites, etc., but engineers also enjoy “geekier” types of destinations like Lee Goldberg's latest journey. Geek tourism embraces a wide ...
A dive team headed by two New Jersey residents have found the wreckage of the Le Lyonnais about 200 miles near the Massachusetts coast. Facebook/D/V Tenacious A French ship that sank following an 1856 ...
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