Tom Cunliffe tells us of the wonderful life of Virginia Crowell Jones (‘Ginny’ to her friends, and ‘The Madam’ to us all) the late, great Madam of Newport.

Discover the history and natural beauty of Connecticut's landmarks, from the Connecticut River to the stunning beauty of the ...

The Philippines has protested this month against the entry of Chinese vessels in its 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), including the 165-m (541-ft) -long ship 5901, last spotted 77 ...

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a ...

The so-called Williams-Mystic Program, a collaboration between Mystic Seaport and Williams College, had been expected to end this June as the Massachusetts-based educational institution announced ...

After an initial pause to swim and snorkel off a beach in West Timor, we anchor off the coast of Alor Island, briefly abandoning ship to witness ... to a global ban on whaling in all but a handful ...

Taiwan has accused a Chinese-owned ship of severing a critical data cable off its northern coast on Friday. Officials in Taipei discovered that four cores of an international submarine cable, which ...

Of the 20 men aboard the whaleship, only 8 survived the shipwreck. Following the destruction of their ship by the sperm whale, the survivors abandon the sinking ship and endure months adrift in ...

A humpback whale was spotted leaping from the water off the Sussex coast. Kitty Dale spotted the whale from Hastings seafront yesterday, January 3. She said: "I’d just had lunch at the White ...