The largest and most intact of the uncovered Old Town ships. As long as there’s been an Alexandria, there’s been a waterfront plan. In the mid-to-late 1700s the bustling port city was on the rise.

How elaborate these calculations are in the case of ships is well shown in this book of Mr. Kari's on “The Design of Merchant Ships and Cost Estimating”.

In another maritime development in London, the president of the United Kingdom Chamber of Shipping, Lord Geddes, announced that the owners of 15 merchant ships trapped in the Suez Canal since June ...

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Egypt, officials said. The US Navy said the carrier collided with the Besiktas-M ship at 11:46 p.m ...

ALL ABOARD! The Tall Ship Providence, a 110-foot, 12-gun sloop of war, is a replica of the first ship authorized to serve in the Continental Navy and John Paul Jones' first American command.

The vast majority of active nuclear-powered ships today are submarines, with 68 currently active in the U.S. Navy — in fact, America's entire fleet of submarines are now nuclear-powered, with ...

The ship is currently closed while undergoing repairs until mid-July, but it is just one of many attractions in Alexandria’s Old Town, the nation’s third oldest historic district, celebrated ...

Out of the 22-member crew, 18 jumped into the ocean, and efforts are underway to rescue them. The merchant ship was en route to Mumbai. Around 20 containers on board the ship caught fire and fell off.

A salvage barge lifts a specially designed basket containing the wreck of the 800-year-old merchant ship 'Nanhai No. 1' from the waters off the south China coast near Yangjiang, southern China's ...

T he American military sees the civilian merchant fleet and shipbuilding industry as strategic assets in wartime. Given their strategic importance, the government passed the Jones Act in 1920 to ...

The merchant ships that have been built were for the Jones Act trade, in which foreign shipbuilders were precluded from competing. This workload was sufficient to maintain the industry during the ...

A former cargo ship captain has been charged with sexually assaulting a female U.S. Merchant Marine Academy cadet after allegedly spiking her alcoholic drink while at sea in 2019, federal ...