Aircraft carriers are impressive in size but they can still hide from the enemy when necessary. Here's everything they have ...

The answer has its roots in Portuguese, Dutch, and English sailors who needed a way to tell how fast they were going in an ...

Wind-Assisted Propulsion is where old meets new, using power drawn from the wind to help move the ship on its journey, saving fuel along the way.

The Andrea Doria was a floating palace - 10 decks, art-covered halls, silver-plated dining, and 1,706 people headed for New York. But a nighttime radar misread, thick Atlantic fog, and two crews ...

An Ariane 6 successfully launched a radar imaging satellite Nov. 4 after European agencies chose to use a larger rocket to ...

Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

Modern merchant ships operating in piracy-prone waters now rely on a mix of armed guards and non-lethal defense systems to ...

It has been more than a century since the Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. But the discovery of the ship ...

While warships are more complex ships to build, commercial ships still accounted for over 95 percent of the work at the newly consolidated China Shipbuilding Group. From that point on China has been ...

I was inspired by colleague Terence Corrigan’s recent article, If I were king…. It left me considering what I would do if I ...

As the Edmund Fitzgerald and Arthur M. Anderson made their way across Lake Superior on Nov. 10 50 years ago, they were met ...

“The Orca Class represents a new era in heavy lift shipping, combining advanced technology with a strong focus on efficiency and sustainability,” said Sebastian Westphal, managing director, SAL Heavy ...