On July 23, 1814, Alexandrians read in the Alexandria Gazette that British ships again were sailing up the Potomac River and further, that they had attacked the county seat of Calvert County, Md.

No-one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes as tensions remain high in the Middle East ...

Disaster to the British Ship William. Share full article. Aug. 12, 1864. ... To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.

Explorers say they've found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I.. Some 524 people, including the ship's captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went ...

The British maritime security firm Ambrey confirmed that the Rubymar is a UK-registered, Belize-flagged and Lebanese-operated cargo ship that came under attack late on Sunday.

A British patrol ship passed through the Taiwan Strait on June 18, 2025, less than a week after a Japanese destroyer made a similar trip through the contentious waterway.

The remains of the historic HMS Endeavour have been definitively located at a site near Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was the first European vessel to reach Australia's east coast.

The Gaspee was supposed to stop smuggling in Rhode Island waters. Instead, it became the first British ship Americans burned ...

In 1852, Nathaniel Gordon sailed the Camargo to Brazil, illegally sold 500 enslaved Africans, and burned and sank the ship. Now divers think they’ve found it.

A BRITISH ship filled with “rare treasure” that disappeared centuries ago may finally have been discovered off the coast of Ireland. The Recovery was transporting priceless cargo from I… ...

The U.S. Navy says its sailors and the U.K.'s Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard “harassed” it.