The United States was effectively cut off from the rest of the world. As the maritime historian Salvatore R. Mercogliano ...

Life at sea was “like being in prison, with a chance of drowning”, 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson reckoned.

A recent study published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology analyzed 279 trireme names recorded in 4th-century BCE ...

China has flexed its muscles this month by sending an unusually large number of naval and coast guard vessels through a ...

Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...