When her husband fell deathly ill with no suitable second-in-command, Mary Ann Patten captained his ship to safety.

Conor O’Brien’s Saoirse and the definitive history of Cape Horn roundings, from early explorers to modern solo legends.

Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the "Svaelget 2" is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts ...

The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast. Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an ...

The remains of Svaelget 2 included a covered platform known as a "castle deck" where sailors could hide from the weather.

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

Renowned Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton once said, “If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got ...