The members of the Formal Investigation board into the loss of the Andromeda gave the following report, citing an 'error of judgement' that led to the shipwreck off Cornwall, rather than a wrongful ...

Lin’s latest is probably her best as she herself told me. I think she may right. It is her life story at sea – honest, ...

A solid wood table inlaid with gold, a mirror blurred with silver leaf and a cabinet with a base adorned with precious stones are among the pieces that can be discovered in the capital's galleries.

The Folly area between East Cowes and Newport was without electricity after a swan collided with an 11,000-volt overhead ...

Elizabeth Berry was hanged at Walton Prison in 1887 after murdering her 11-year-old daughter, Edith. Working as a nurse at ...

Intensified Chinese aggression, competing sovereignty claims and stalled ASEAN negotiations continued to fuel volatility in ...

a bronze figurehead from a ceremonial barque (i.e., a little boat ritually carried on land) probably representing the goddess Isis. It may have been produced during the third century BC for a ...

Based on evidence such as the copper bolts used in the vessel's construction, experts have determined that the remains are likely that of wooden sailing ... a Spanish barque, is also well-known.

including a long voyage to San Cristobal on the barque Jane in 1851. Somewhere off the coast of Australia and the Solomons, on a 221-ton boat that carried up to 1200 barrels of sperm oil ...

On February 15, 1882, the Dunedin left Port Chalmers for London, with New Zealand’s first shipment of frozen meat. The cargo ...