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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Royal guests impressed by state-of-the-art Type 26 anti-submarine frigate during visit to BAE shipyard in Glasgow for naming ...

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 ...

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.

Around 3000 BCE, population growth in the Island of Southeast Asia forced people to migrate, sailing ... great ships and a strong navy. The importance of trade and trade routes in diplomatic relations ...