The SS Andrea Doria, an Italian ocean liner stretching 697 feet, was one of the most elegant ships of the postwar era. On July 25, 1956, it collided with the MS Stockholm off Nantucket, Massachusetts, ...

The infamous HMS Bounty mutiny in 1789 involved one of history’s most notorious cases of marooning. After seizing the ship, Fletcher Christian and the mutineers cast Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal ...

Other artists to be commissioned include Patricia Mackinnon-Day, whose work will explore the stories of female seafarers, ...

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Bill Shakespeare had young Juliet ask that question of her Romeo some 425 years ago, but it’s a timeless query, really, and certainly relevant today. Take, for instance, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin ...

Only a twelve-minute drive from campus and located in the picturesque “City of Ships,” of Bath, Maine, the Maine Maritime Museum (MMM) preserves and studies Maine’s seafaring past and culture. This ...

Winter, 1968. A multinational force of American, British, Dutch, and Norwegian ships sails the North Atlantic, defending NATO’s shores under a shared flag — a first in modern history. The alliance can ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MADISONVILLE, La. (WGNO) — On the banks of ...