Boats come in all shapes and sizes. We have container ships, oil tankers, old-timey wooden sailing ships, catamarans, trimarans, and all sorts besides. Most are designed with features that give ...

But at one Nova Scotia beach an hour from Halifax, there are three wooden sailing ships -- each more than a century old and measuring more than 20 feet high -- completely buried in the sand.

The wooden sailing ships were tiny in comparison to modern liners. The average journey time from the West African coast to the Americas was six to eight weeks and for many enslaved people this was ...

Sailing the seven seas is perilous, especially during the monsoon season when the winds and the rain can be unpredictable and ...

On the night of 17 November, off the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa, an uncontrollable fire broke out on the wooden sailing ship, resulting in all but three of the 479 passengers and crew ...