The U.S. Postal Service issued the schooner stamped card today at the Minnesota Stamp Expo. This new stamped card features a ...

At the height of the Spanish empire, the Manila galleon turned Acapulco into a hub for the entire world's trade networks.

Crew aboard Spanish trading ships departing from Manila may have introduced techniques for distilling coconut sap – helping ...

Crossing the Atlantic in the 1700s was no easy feat. The fastest ships could make the voyage in as little as a month, but for ...

This involves collaborating on an archaeological survey of the number two slipway, where large wooden warships for Nelson’s ...

Before there were prisons in this country, we had what were known as ‘Houses of Correction’.  These were established in the late 16th century as places for the punishment and reform, through hard ...

Hotel Bethlehem has earned recognition for its collection of roughly 90-year-old murals, all created by a Pennsylvania ...

More than 50 Tall Ships from around the world are due to arrive in Aberdeen on Friday after racing from Dunkirk.

Jane Austens novels depict a world of tea, cakes, and polite society, but the sweetness of that world was underpinned by the ...

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged vessel holding the precious furnishings of the lost 18th century Amber Room, ...

When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the battle ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...