British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

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Pirate shipwrecks off Costa Rica, long shrouded in mystery, have been revealed to hide a dramatic 1710 maritime story lost to ...

There are several classes of Coast Guard ships that are called cutters. Learn where the name came from and why it's used so ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

Centuries-old shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, long thought to have been the property of pirates, are actually Danish ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Ten eighteenth-century pistols have returned to their place of origin in an "extraordinary homecoming" for the historic village of Doune in ...

both of which had large brick-making industries in the 18th century.The clay pipes were also revealed to be Danish, with their size, shape and designs indicating that they were made just before 1710, ...

The ships' identities were only called into question ... both of which had large brick-making industries in the 18th century. The clay pipes were also revealed to be Danish, with their size ...