The big old sailing ship Balclutha and the lumber ... The ship was brand new, 256 feet long, a full rigged ship with a hull of iron and steel, three masts and no engine when it sailed from the ...

Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of ...

You can say a lot about the United States military, but it's nothing if not meticulous. It keeps a detailed inventory of every piece of equipment in its service, including all its vehicles from ...

The Golden Hinde had a crew of about 80 people, who slept on mats laid out on the deck (hammocks only became common on sailing ships in the 17th century). The masts attached to the hull can be up ...

We’ve talked about some very old wooden ships before ... imagine the hurdles that ancient mariners faced when sailing their wooden ships. Not only was there no technology available, but the ...

While a handful of these centuries-old sailing words remain known only to the saltiest of seamen, many terms have since abandoned ship, swimming shoreward and embedding themselves in the ...