The Admiral Scheer, one of Germany’s powerful pocket battleships, roared forward at full speed to attack an Allied convoy of 38 merchant ships. Armed with six 28-centimeter guns and reaching an ...

Aditi Bharade I thought the activities "on board" the ship hotel could have been more extensive. The highlight was a ship tour, which takes place twice daily, at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m..

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eric Saw, the 73-year-old founder of Doulos Phos The Ship Hotel, in Bintan, Indonesia. It has been edited for length and clarity. I used to ...

Eric Saw bought a 96-year-old ship with the dream of converting it into a hotel. Finding it a resting place and renovating it took him nearly 10 years.

Two other German raiders sunk: > The British cruiser Dorsetshire, which fired the final shot into the Bismarck, downed a converted 10,000-ton merchant ship somewhere in the South Atlantic.

Archaeologists are confident they have found the wreckage of an 800-ton Dutch merchant ship that sunk off the coast of Australia 168 years ago. The Koning Willem de Tweede was lost near Robe ...

Six miles east of Cape Canaveral one night last week, the 16,100-ton converted merchant ship Observation Island steamed an easterly course in gently rolling seas.The seagoing missile laboratory, ...

The MV Rachel Corrie, a converted merchant ship bought by pro-Palestinian activists and named after an American woman killed in the Gaza Strip in 2003, set off on Monday from Malta.

Now, the ship has been transformed into a beachfront hotel on its own reclaimed island in Indonesia. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eric Saw, the 73-year-old founder of ...

I stayed in Doulos Phos The Ship Hotel, a short ferry ride from Singapore. The 110-year-old ship was brought to its resting place in Indonesia and renovated into a hotel.