A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...

With the end of the monopoly, the number of slaves transported on English ships would increase dramatically -- to an average of over 20,000 a year. By the end of the 17th century, England led the ...

Palimpsests of the mighty port remain in the cobblestones of Fulton Street, the tall masts of the iron-hulled cargo ship ...