Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ...

When confronted with a massive fleet of ships bent on destruction ... she would be remembered as the most fearsome pirate in history. Stanford historian Dian H. Murray wrote about Ching Shih ...

You cannot visit the USS Indianapolis — it’s at the bottom of the Philippine Sea — but you can visit a 13-foot scale model at ...

In our History of the World told through things ... and particularly not on board a rolling ship. If you wanted to sail, it was impossible to keep a precise record of passing time, and at sea ...

John Simanton’s collection reflects a time when world wars were fought at sea – when mighty ships battled each other across ...

The iconic ocean liner SS United States, once the pride of American maritime engineering and larger than the famed Titanic, ...

Before the invention of anchor chain ships used hemp rope, which often broke and put lives in danger. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World ...

March 23 is marked as Martyr’s Day to commemorate the execution of three revolutionary leaders – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram ...

Instead, individual users have to either manually check each ship tag for numbers, or set up a scraper program on a local server that works slowly through the same data. Although they are not ...