The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look ...

Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856.

Jean Napoleon Zerman, undoubtedly the lesser of the 19th-century Napoleons, sailed into the bay of La Paz in 1855 with three ships — two flying American flags, the other none — wearing a ...

Four tall ships will be in Sturgeon Bay from July 31 to Aug. 2 and are offering cruises at specific scheduled times. Tickets ...

As of April 30, the Tall Ships America website shows no scheduled ... The Liberty Clipper, a 125-foot-long replica of a mid-19th century Baltimore clipper that operates in Boston Harbor during ...

Apart from the galleys in the Mediterranean, which were useless out of it, Spain required for the long voyages to South America and the East ships of large carrying capacity, in order to hold the ...

Singaporean businessman Eric Saw bought a century-old ship in 2010 with big hopes for it. Over the next nine years, he struggled to find a place to berth it. Now, the ship has been transformed ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

It’s really just an incredible effort.” Mendel, a citizen scientist, famously performed a series of experiments in the mid-nineteenth century in which he cross-bred some 28,000 pea plants to ...