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History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
3 days ago

Wreck of Danish flagship blown up by Nelson found

The remains of the Danish flagship Dannebroge, destroyed in 1801, have been discovered by archaeologists in Copenhagen harbor.
London
fromAtlas Obscura
2 days ago

National Lighthouse Museum in Staten Island

Tourists should visit the National Lighthouse Museum after taking the Staten Island ferry for a unique historical experience.
fromChron
2 days ago

148-year-old tall ship preparing for iconic 2,500-mile journey

Elissa's voyage as part of Sail250 and America250 events will be an opportunity to showcase Galveston Historical Foundation's almost 50 years of preserving this important National Historic Landmark.
Washington DC
London politics
fromwww.bbc.com
5 days ago

'Ship disaster victims deserve to have story told'

The sinking of the Princess Alice in 1878 resulted in over 700 deaths, yet remains largely forgotten despite its significance in maritime safety reforms.
fromBoston.com
1 week ago

First submarine named after Massachusetts joins the Navy fleet

To be able to take a ship from new construction and watch it be built together by the ship yard, train with our team and bring into Boston Harbor for the first time, it's very amazing. I looked at the history books. I don't think we've had a submarine in Boston Harbor since sometime in the late '80s or early '90s.
Boston
#archaeology
Travel
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

How Cruise Tourism Supports Global Port Economies

Cruise tourism significantly boosts port city economies through various sectors like hospitality, logistics, and local businesses.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Decades ago, a Maryland sailor burned his winter socks. Now it's a spring tradition

Annapolis celebrates spring with the annual Oyster Roast & Sock Burning festival, marking the end of winter and the start of sailing season.
#titanic
Boston food
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago

Cape Cod magnet fisher pulls 'pristine-looking' derringer pistol from Bridgewater river

A Cape Cod magnet fisher discovered a pristine derringer pistol in a river, drawing significant online attention.
fromOpen Culture
3 days ago

Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow

The Titanic met her end by colliding with an iceberg, and about two and a half hours later, it was on the bottom of the North Atlantic.
History
London music
fromCN Traveller
2 weeks ago

A seaside town without any sea? The charming British spot drawing in curious travellers

Parkgate, a former 18th-century port on the Dee Estuary, transformed from a bustling harbor into marshland due to centuries of natural silting that gradually replaced water with mud flats.
London
fromianVisits
1 week ago

The Chinatown London forgot: New exhibition explores Limehouse's past

Limehouse's Chinatown reveals a complex history of migrant workers, myths, and social dynamics, contrasting popular perceptions with the reality of the community.
Science
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Thousands of Chinese Ships Form Strange Shape in Ocean

Thousands of Chinese fishing vessels have formed unusually organized geometric formations in the East China Sea, raising concerns about potential military coordination and naval drills.
fromOpen Culture
3 weeks ago

The Fascinating Engineering of the Titanic: How the Great Ocean Liner Was Built

The Titanic was one of a trio of similar White Star Line ships completed in the early nineteen-tens. In the video above, Bill Hammack, known on YouTube as Engineerguy, tells the story of not just the Titanic, but also the Olympic and the HMHS Britannic. An engineering professor at the University of Illinois, he found in the campus library issues of the journal The Engineer published between 1909 and 1911 that contain detailed photographs of the construction of both the Titanic and Olympic, sister ships that were built side-by-side.
OMG science
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Advocates push for major probe as US boat strikes in Latin America kill 157

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hold its first hearing on alleged US extrajudicial killings during military strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that began in September, with nearly 157 people killed and minimal public information released.
US news
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Treasure hunter freed after decade in prison for not revealing location of gold

Treasure hunter Tommy Thompson was released after 10 years in prison for refusing to disclose the location of 500 gold coins from the SS Central America, which he discovered in 1998.
London food
fromDaily News
3 weeks ago

The Queen Mary sails the culinary seas with a new menu that digs Into decades of history

Queen Mary's Chelsea Chowder House debuts a historically-inspired menu featuring recreated dishes from the ship's archives, rotating through different decades throughout the year.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 week ago

Exceptional Roman cargo shipwreck found in Lake Neuchatel

A Roman vessel wreck with approximately 600 artifacts was discovered in Lake Neuchatel, dating between 20 and 50 A.D.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Lost Parthenon Piece Unearthed From Lord Elgin's Shipwreck | Artnet News

Greek underwater archaeologists recovered a small Parthenon marble fragment off Kythira island, likely from the temple's ornamental crown, during an excavation of Lord Elgin's sunken ship from 1802.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

Recovered CWMs continue to pose worker and food safety risks. Because of ocean drift, storms, and offshore industries, sea-disposed CWMs locations are largely unknown and potentially far from their originally documented dump site. The three incidents exposed at least six crew members to mustard agent, which causes blistering chemical burns on skin and mucous membranes.
Miami Marlins
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
1 month ago

Soak and Pounce: 1920's Style Submarine Patents

Patent applicants historically delayed filing divisional applications to allow competitors to independently develop inventions, then emerged with claims to capture those market investments through interference proceedings.
San Francisco
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

It Will Likely Be a Year Before the Port of SF's Sinking Dry Dock #2 Can Be Demolished and Removed

The Port of San Francisco's Dry Dock #2 requires constant pumping to prevent sinking and won't be removed until 2027, risking catastrophic damage from winter storms.
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1 month ago

The 2 Notorious Female Pirates Who Fought Brutally, Ruthlessly, and Sometimes Topless

According to witness testimonies that eventually landed them at a courthouse in Jamaica in 1720, they were more ruthless and deadly than their male counterparts; they shot their rifles whenever they felt like it; and, in some cases, they fought topless.
Women
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 week ago

Viking High Seat Recreated in Norway for Museum Exhibition - Medievalists.net

A reconstructed Viking Age high seat reveals insights into the power structures and agricultural foundations of early medieval Norway.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
22 years ago

Coasting through time in Long Beach

A 1919 Spanish-style home in Long Beach's historic Bluff Park area, owned by restaurant publicist Frank Groff, is listed for $2.5 million as he expands his business to San Diego.
fromianVisits
1 week ago

Shackleton's legendary Antarctic rescue boat, the James Caird is on display in south London

The voyage of the crew in a 22.5-foot ship's boat through the 'Furious Fifties' is regarded by many historians as the greatest small-boat journey ever completed.
History
Environment
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

Tracking fisherman to track fish: The new technological approach to better understand ocean life

Global Fishing Watch uses AIS transponder data and artificial intelligence to track fishing vessels worldwide, providing unprecedented visibility into global fishing fleet movements and activities.
Miscellaneous
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Tickets Alert: Climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College domes

Dome Tours at the Old Royal Naval College resume in April, allowing small groups to climb inside domes, view Wren's structure and enjoy 360° views.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

From Victorian voyages to vanishing maps: Books in brief

Historical expeditions and proxy records reveal long-term Earth and ocean processes essential for understanding and addressing contemporary climate and environmental challenges.
#cruise-packing
History
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

Looted from a royal palace: The medieval jug now on display in London

A medieval English bronze jug looted from Ghana's Asante kingdom reveals how European luxury goods became valued ceremonial objects through trans-continental trade networks before colonial appropriation.
#maritime-archaeology
#ss-red-oak-victory
History
fromBusiness Insider
4 weeks ago

World War II museum ships suddenly feel less like history after a US submarine sank an Iranian warship

A US Navy submarine's recent sinking of an Iranian warship has revived interest in World War II museum ships, making historical naval combat vessels relevant to contemporary military strategy and public discourse.
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

Exhibition opens Friday on alternative visions for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal

RED HOOK - A SPECIAL EXHIBITION - "Brooklyn Marine Terminal: Past, Present, & What's Next for Red Hook?" - will hold its opening Friday night from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Compere Collective, 351 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook. The display, hosted by Resilient Red Hook in collaboration with Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, features student work that explores alternative visions for the BMT, bringing academic insight, community priorities and design innovation together.
New York City
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

photographer captures cargo ships passing by on his ferry ride home

Counting Ships is a photography series by Pierfrancesco Celada that examines proximity, movement, and scale within a maritime landscape. The project captures a busy ferry route connecting an island to one of the most densely populated regions nearby. The crossing takes approximately 25 minutes and passes through one of the world's most active maritime trade corridors, where more than two hundred cargo ships transit daily.
Photography
Travel
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

The 'Crystal Coast' of the U.S. Has Clear Waters, World-class Shark Diving, and the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'

The Crystal Coast combines clear beaches, extensive shipwrecks, and abundant sand tiger shark aggregations, offering premier scuba diving and coastal wildlife experiences.
California
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

EXCLUSIVE: How an Alameda man traced decades-old ring found on Navy ship to sailor from Georgia

A Briarcliff High School class ring found aboard the USS Hornet was traced and returned to the family after volunteers and residents identified the owner.
Real estate
fromIndependent
2 months ago

'If you buy an old boat for 40,000 and think that you're going to get a permanent home... that's just not possible'

Living on a houseboat lowers monthly bills but requires substantial upfront investment, ongoing maintenance, and can produce unexpected expenses and hard work.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Between Sea and City: Contemporary Fish Market Architecture

Fish markets shape coastal urban identity by mediating city-sea relations, embodying maritime culture, and evolving into hybrid public spaces tied to waterfront regeneration.
fromBig Think
2 months ago

7,000-year-old underwater wall raises questions about ancient engineering - and lost-city legends

Nine meters (30 feet) beneath the waves, they found it: a vast, man-made stone wall, averaging 20 meters (66 feet) wide and two meters (6.6 feet) tall. The structure consists of some 60 massive granite monoliths, set directly onto the bedrock in pairs at regular intervals. Smaller slabs and packing stones fill in the gaps, locking the whole into a single, deliberate construction. With an estimated total mass of around 3,300 tons, this is the largest underwater structure ever discovered in France.
France news
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Unsinkable metal discovery could build safer ships and harvest wave energy

Laser-etched superhydrophobic textures let damaged aluminum tubes trap air and remain buoyant, mimicking diving bell spiders' hair-based air-trapping mechanism.
World news
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

The yachting industry searches for alternatives to teak

Jeff Bezos's Koru uses teak; Myanmar old-growth teak is illegal due to military-linked trade and sanctions, driving yacht-makers toward plantation and synthetic alternatives.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Historic Bay Area shipyard hosts celebration as two of World War II's legendary Rosies' turn 100

Dozens of well-wishers turned the S.S. Red Oak Victory, a floating World War II museum in Richmond's historic Kaiser Shipyard, into a party on Jan. 31, celebrating the 100 years of life lived by Jeanne Gibson and Marian Sousa. They popped bottles of sparkling wine, swapped stories and heaped the kind of praise that Gibson remarked is usually reserved for funerals onto the women, even with Sousa missing from the festivities as she recovered from a back injury.
California
France news
fromThe Good Life France
2 months ago

A day in Montreuil-sur-Mer - The Good Life France

Montreuil-sur-Mer is a picturesque fortified hilltop town near Calais with historic ramparts, rich medieval and military history, and charming streets and monuments.
New York City
fromNew York Family
2 months ago

Sail4th 250 NYC: America 250 Celebration With Tall Ships, Fleet Week & Fireworks

New York Harbor will host a massive weeklong Sail4th 250 celebration July 3–9, 2026, featuring international tall ships, a naval review, flyovers, and fireworks.
Women
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?

Mary Ann Patten, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, seized command during a storm off Cape Horn, quelled a mutiny, and navigated a clipper to San Francisco.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

'Inevitably difficult'

On September 14, Alejandro Carranza, a 42-year-old fisherman, set out to sea from a remote town in La Guajira, Colombia's northernmost province, bordering Venezuela. It was an ordinary fishing trip, in search of tuna and marlin, said Leonardo Vega, a childhood friend and the president of the fishing association Carranza belonged to. But this time, Carranza never returned.
World news
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

New Research Could Rewrite the Story of One of New York's Earliest Shipwrecks

In 1916, subway construction near Greenwich and Dey Streets in Lower Manhattan unearthed a surprising relic. Some 20 feet underground, workers turned up charred timber; digging further, the contours of an ancient ship came into view-its prow, keel, and ribs. The wreck was later deemed to be the Tyger, a 17th-century vessel that represents a rare archaeological trace of early Dutch exploration in Manhattan.
Arts
Science
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

Author Correction: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands

Corrections to regional radiocarbon uncertainties do not meaningfully change conclusions about timing of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition or maritime voyages in the central Mediterranean.
US news
from24/7 Wall St.
2 months ago

Exploring the Oldest US Navy Ships Over 35 Years in Service

Several U.S. Navy vessels have served over 35 years and remain operational due to robust design, upgrades, maintenance, and role adaptation.
Science
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

The navy veteran guiding cruises away from storms

A former Royal Navy meteorologist remotely monitors global weather to guide cruise ships, advising captains to avoid storms and ensure passenger safety and comfort.
US news
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Searchers find wreck of luxury steamer lost in Lake Michigan more than 150 years ago

Searchers located the wreck of the luxury steamer Lac La Belle about 20 miles offshore between Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin, completing a nearly 60-year search.
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Paintings on Antique Navigational Tools Are a Poetic Nod to Bird Migration by Steeven Salvat

Steeven Salvat creates meticulous hybrid drawings of creatures fused with mechanical elements, using antique maps and navigational objects to explore migration, navigation, and ecological vulnerability.
fromBrooklyn Eagle
1 month ago

Time running out for S.S. United States as group pushes for preservation

ALABAMA - THE HISTORIC S.S. UNITED States ocean liner, currently undergoing environmental remediation work in Mobile, Alabama ahead of its planned sinking and conversion to an artificial reef off of Florida's coast, was this week given a tentative April departure date from that port for its final destination, Fox 10 WALA reports . The new timeline has lit a fire under the New York Coalition to Save the S.S. United States, the preservation group battling to save the ship .
US news
Science
fromThe Local France
2 months ago

France launches its first ocean-bottom floats

France deployed two deep-diving Argo floats to measure ocean currents and global warming to 6,000-meter depths.
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Archaeologists fight tides to save the Swash Channel Wreck in Dorset

Archaeologists have fought the tides to save a 17th-century shipwreck from a popular nudist beach in Dorset. The remains are believed to be part of the Swash Channel Wreck, a Dutch merchant ship called The Fame of Hoorn that ran aground while approaching Poole Harbour in 1631. The wreck was found on Dorset's Studland Beach at the end of January when Storm Chandra washed away the sand that had kept it hidden for almost 400 years.
History
fromNature
2 months ago

Floating science stations: my month on a research vessel looking after buoys

In this photo, I'm preparing drifting buoys for deployment. This was my main responsibility aboard the RV Falkor (too), during a 27-day research expedition in October 2025 exploring the Malvinas Current, an ocean current that runs alongside Argentina. The expedition included biologists, geologists and physical oceanographers such as myself; I'm a PhD candidate at the Sea and Atmosphere Research Center (CIMA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Science
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

I toured the USS Lionfish, a Balao-class submarine that rescued downed pilots in World War II. Take a look inside.

The World War II submarine USS Lionfish was part of America's "Silent Service." Despite comprising less than 2% of all US Navy vessels during World War II, submarines like the USS Lionfish sank 55% of Japanese vessels in battle. This once-fearsome vessel is now a 311-foot-long museum exhibit, allowing the public to learn about its top-secret wartime operations. Take a look inside the USS Lionfish.
History
History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months ago

Archaeologists Discovered the 'Holy Grail' of Shipwrecks a Decade Ago. Now, They're Finally Beginning to Unravel the Secrets of the 'San Jose'

A priceless 1708 Spanish galleon, the San José, was discovered in 2015 but remains contested amid political and legal battles over ownership and treasure.
History
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark

A 1410 CE cog wreck off Denmark shows medieval merchant ships reached unprecedented sizes, reflecting rapid expansion of European maritime trade and cargo capacity.
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

Medieval gold ring discovered in Norway - Medievalists.net

A gold ring with a deep-blue, oval setting - decorated with fine spirals of filigree and tiny granulated beads - has been recovered from medieval deposits in Tønsberg, a historic town in southeastern Norway. The ring was found during an excavation in the modern town centre, where archaeologists have been investigating layers of urban life preserved beneath today's streets. The discovery was made within the protected archaeological area known as Tønsberg Medieval Town.
History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months ago

Meet 13 People Who Survived on Deserted Islands, From a Real-Life Robinson Crusoe to a Noblewoman Marooned With Her Lover

Countless books, movies and television shows chronicle the adventures (or misadventures) of people stranded on remote islands. Consider, for example, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, the beloved Tom Hanks movie and the classic 1960s sitcom " Gilligan's Island." Now , a new Sam Raimi horror-thriller about a woman (played by Rachel McAdams) stuck with her overbearing boss (Dylan O'Brien) after a plane crash, is set to join the ranks of these survivalist stories.
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