Zoe Hewitt, a shipwright at Haven Boatworks, uses a draw knife to shape the foremast on the 112-year-old historic schooner Adventuress, background, that is resting on the hard at the Port Townsend ...

Frustrated scientists turned to visual aids to help make their case for the lightning rod. The exploding thunder house is one example. When a small amount of gunpowder was deposit ...

In 2024, the SS Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior broken in half with the bow section resting on the stern at a ...

Further particulars will be sent as soon as possible. SEVEN O'CLOCK, P.M. The foremast of the Dewitt Clinton has been cut away to ease the ship. She is lying along the beach and in an easier ...

Texas legislators have been meeting for just over a month amid the nearly 5,000 bills already filed in both the Texas House and Senate. Oil and gas associations are closely watching a number of ...

(March 6, 2025) de Crèvecoeur, in his 1782 “Letters from an American Farmer,” famously noted how the maritime economy of ...

THE Norwegian emigrant ship Hannah Parr set sail from Christiania (now Oslo) in Norway on April 12, 1868, bound for Quebec, Canada. Aboard were 366 hopeful emigrants, ranging in age from babies to a ...

Built by Port-Glasgow by the Lamont Company, the motor vessel Theron is the largest and most powerful seal-catching ship in the world.