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

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

Fifty years after the Bristol bus boycott, BBC Inside Out looks back at the racist policies that stopped black people from working on the buses. In 1963 a young black man in Bristol was refused an ...

Readers will likely have come across news at some point about the Spanish Antarctic Base Gabriel de Castilla. As one might ...

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

From natural chaos to wartime blasts and industrial disasters, these are history's most powerful non-nuclear explosions ...

The capital of Spain may not be on the coast, but that doesn’t keep it from celebrating its ties to the sea with museums, ...

But while the Lady Elgin ’s deteriorating wreckage remains interred across a mile of Lake Michigan lakebed, one remarkably ...

Tallinn will host the regatta from July 11-14, 2028. Tallinn last hosted the regatta in 2024, when the event brought 58 sailing ships from 14 countries to the city's harbors, along with 1,277 crew ...

Last week, the Arts Council announced that Britain’s museums have benefitted from some £50 million of art and antiques through tax saving incentives provided by the Treasury in the year 2015 to 2016.

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 ...