Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: USN/PH3 Michael Skeens - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Warships have always captured the imagination, towering steel ...

Mayflower, Constitution, Titanic, Bismarck – these are all the names of legendary ships. History-changing ships. Ships that created legends and stories that were more than just their sails, ...

The world had been living under the threat of nuclear war for the better part of a decade when President Dwight D. Eisenhower had an idea: Let’s give atomic power a makeover. Ike came up with Atoms ...

In the 19th century, the idea of "cruising," or traveling by sea for leisure as opposed to necessity, was a strange one. Some credit the origin story of the cruise to American writer Mark Twain, who ...

Maritime history dates back to the very dawn of humanity, with some scientific circles suggesting we've been sailing the high seas since the late part of the Early Pleistocene, roughly 900,000 years ...