Sailors don’t enunciate the line of bowline (which can refer to the rope used to fasten a square sail to the ship’s bow, or a ...

Flake out: This phrase comes from when a crew would ‘flake out’ an anchor chain (lay it out flat) on the deck to check the ...

NCIS: Sydney was part of CBS’s primetime schedule last fall (when, due to the writers and actors’ strikes, there wasn’t much ...

18th- and 19th-century woodblock prints and Western comics and satire. "Captivating millions around the world with dynamic graphic narratives, manga is one of the most significant visual mediums ...

Seafarers fell from masts, slipped on the deck and were injured by nautical ... 18th century. In his mid-17th century medical journal written aboard the merchant vessels Peregrine and Phoenix ...

The larger the ship, the more stress it endured on the water, and the Wyoming suffered greatly throughout its relatively short time sailing the seas despite earning enough to justify its expense.

Though forests of masts like hers were still fairly common on the world’s oceans even a century ago ... fully-rigged sailing ship. Less than 12 hours after leaving port in Barbados, Royal ...

Fran Golden is an award-winning cruise journalist whose work regularly appears in Bloomberg, Travel + Leisure, Afar and other leading publications and websites. She is the author of numerous cruise ...

There are ambitions to make Gloucester’s Tall Ships festival a longer event spanning more than one weekend, available for all and without barriers in 2027. Gloucester City Council leaders have ...

It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th century ships-of-the-line bristling ... Ukrainians to accept Russia’s peace terms? Who knows? It’s a fair bet ...

"The thick beams suggest a very large, stable, and powerful ship. Since wooden dowels were only used in shipbuilding until the end of the 18th century ... the forebody of a sailing ship that ...

Later in the late 18th century, rhyming slang ... Pie men would source dead fish, rather than fresh ones, from Dutch ships and fill the pies with them,” says Arment. “They poisoned more ...