Galway and Lorient celebrate their 50th twinning anniversary with a maritime-themed festival showcasing Celtic culture.

It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured ...

In a 1632 treatise, Galileo Galilei set forth ... the ship appeared to be passing more slowly than on the dock. The reverse, Einstein knew, would also have to be true. From the sailor’s point ...

Among the proposals is a fee of at least $1 million each time a Chinese-operated or Chinese-built ship enters a U.S. port. With Chinese ships featuring prominently in both current fleets and order ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

The Russian captain of a container ship which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of manslaughter by gross negligence. Vladimir Motin, 59 ...

Arthur Conan Doyle's 1884 short story based on the case posited a capture by a vengeful ex-slave, a 1935 movie featured Bela Lugosi as a homicidal sailor ... set off waves of theorizing about the ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his ...

Before Pirates, Pryce was a successful, Tony-winning stage actor who starred in shows like Hamlet, Oliver! and Miss Saigon.

How far would you go to get away from it all? The man who built Two Temple Place faked his own death for a bit of peace and ...