With an average ship of the line needing 154,500 feet for its rigging alone, ropemaking was vitally important during the age ...

As part of the significant effort of the Ministry for Heritage of Gibraltar to recover historical and cultural memory, it has for some time now been installing information plaques concerning the ...

Whatever it's been called - plumbago, black-cawke, wadd, black-lead - through century after century, graphite has been nothing if not humble. Last week, the United States slapped a 93.5 per cent duty ...

Four shipwrecks were found by a team of archeologists from East Carolina University who were doing a field study at a istoric ...

Nation World Scottish isle community unearths 18th-century wreck, revealing warship's history Experts traced the ship’s history using tree-ring dating and historical records.