After a few days traveling north, three of the ship's strained boilers exploded in the early hours of April 27, 1865, killing dozens instantly. Constructed predominantly of wood, the Sultana quickly ...

U.S. forces struck three suspected drug-trafficking boats in international waters, killing 11 people under Operation Southern Spear.

Fast, stealthy, and cheap—autonomous, semisubmersible drone boats carrying tons of cocaine could be international law enforcement’s nightmare scenario. A big one just came ashore.

Diarra is one of 9,000 employees, mostly women, working on two British-run farms in Senegal's Saint-Louis region.

The largest NATO exercise of the year has begun on the Baltic Sea coast in Schleswig-Holstein. The operation is called "Steadfast Dart 26" and provides for the absence of U.S. participation. It is ...

The steady flow of military assets moving towards Europe and the Middle East appears to be a warning that the US could be ready to attack Iran.

As cruise lines plot new itineraries, here are some of the more under-the-radar places to visit by sea this year—from the Alaskan wilderness to Tanzania’s Spice Islands and Toba, Japan.

Leaders from two Nordic states expressed skepticism over ambitions to seize vessels linked to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, signaling that proposals among allies to tighten restrictions on the ...

The Pentagon has dramatically reduced the number of ships it had in the Caribbean ahead of the Maduro raid, moving vessels toward the Middle East.

Even with a sturdy ship and the help of satellite images, negotiating the frozen ocean requires a dose of humility before nature’s might.

A program dubbed "the Lost Navy" is underway to identify the large number of Swedish naval shipwrecks lying on the bottom of ...