A fisherman, shirtless and sunbaked, took a break from casting off the slender concrete dock. He grabbed the braided nylon line tied to the bow of our starboard-side hull and walked along the pier ...

PROVIDENCE — On Saturday, Aug. 20, 1836, the third mate of the Isaac Howland reported the weather conditions encountered by the whaling ship in ocean waters far from the western shores of Central ...

ROSKILDE, Denmark (Reuters) - A Viking ship set off for Dublin from this Danish port on Sunday to retrace the voyages taken by the feared Nordic tribes who unleashed bloody raids on Ireland's shores 1 ...

On Oct. 10, two days before the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus` landing on the island he called San Salvador, the Art Institute of Chicago will open an extraordinary exhibition devoted to ...

In the waters of the Baltic Sea, long before the Vikings and the written records that tell us of conquests and explorations, there were already peoples venturing out to sea. A new study published in ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Among armchair sailors, Gunnar Thompson is a master mariner. He has navigated oceans and continents, east to west, pole to pole and back again — most of it without leaving his small ...

INSV Kaundinya is inspired by depictions of ancient Indian ships found in historical texts, sculptures and reliefs.

Vikings are popularly portrayed as tough seafarers who raided and traded across Europe between the late 8 th and late 11 th centuries, but these people have also likely kept Viking cats when they ...

The team set out in their handmade canoe, making the entire experience as authentic as possible. A team led by anthropologist Yousuke Kaifu from the University of Tokyo created various simulations, ...