A rare American-built gunboat from the Revolutionary War, unearthed at Ground Zero, is now on display at the New York State ...

The foundation said carpenters used hand-forged nails, handmade blocks and hand-woven rigging to construct ... trade during the 18th century. Malmer would not discuss the ship's selling price.

The magnificent "tall ship" is anchored in the waters off the coast of Fouras in western France. Its towering masts and 18th century rigging set it apart from any other boat out here. I climb a ...

They identified it as the remains of an 18th-century ship. "We knew that an Irish merchant ship sank in 1721 in the area," said Johannessen. "The initial research was done to pick up a few objects ...

For a brief moment, just after two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the V&A Waterfront seemed to have been caught in a time warp as the Gotheborg, a replica of an 18th-century Swedish sailing ship ...

Even if every sail on an 18th-century battleship is depicted correctly ... the marine artist who omits or misplaces a rope on a ship’s rigging. Collectors of marine paintings tend to be pedantic ...

An undersea exploration crew believes it has found the wreck of an 18th-century French ship that sank off the ... water show what appear to be cannons, rigging, a rudder, cannonballs, spikes ...

In the 17 th century, the Royal Navy standardized its ships, creating a system called the Establishment of Dimensions. A third-rate ship, such as the one whose rigging the top diagram here ...