Ships of the line were built specifically for war and boasted heavy armor as well as overwhelming firepower, while galleons ...

A replica of a 17th-century Spanish galleon is set to visit the Isle of Man. And the huge ‘floating tourist attraction’ will ...

Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of historical underwater finds: six shipwrecks spanning the Middle Ages to the 17 th ...

Delft is a wonderful city, but for a more laid back stay in the Netherlands there's a really appealing alternative nearby.

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State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Explorer Vasco da Gama sailed his four ships into the Indian Ocean ... hats and caricatured noses in a detail from a 17th-century Japanese folding screen ...

Hudson would not exist as it does today if not for two 18th-century Nantucket whalers, Thomas and Seth Jenkins. When the British started harassing whalers during the Revolutionary War, the Jenkins ...

Four of the ships are from around the Middle Ages, one is from the 17th century, and one of the ships could not be ... Built in the 1530s, it was once a sailing ship made from Halland/West Sweden oak.

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