Modern harbors are crowded with steel hulls and humming engines, not tall masts and canvas. The global fleet has traded wind ...

Ships harnessed winds as the primary means of propulsion for many centuries before steam engines took center stage in the 1800s; it's quite poetic how maritime travel was greenhouse gas-free long ...

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History is docked along the Detroit RiverWalk as captains and crews of four tall ships built for sailing show off their wooden vessels to the public in the Sail Detroit festival. The ships, "The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Step aboard Call of the Sea’s majestic tall ship, the brigantine Matthew Turner, and explore its decks and cabins while learning about San Francisco’s rich ...

The Elissa was no stranger to Galveston when she was towed to the Texas harbor to become a museum piece in 1979. Forty years later, the 141-year-old iron-hull tall ship is a sailing school and ...

In the era when people traveled by sailing ship and steamer, illnesses usually burned themselves out before boats reached shore, a new study finds. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata wrote a book about the ...