QUINCY — If you don’t know your way around the decks of the USS Salem, you might never run into John Connor. The retired marine's office is a tiny room that, more than half a century ago, was fit for ...

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The USS William D. Porter — “Willie Dee” to her crew — was a War World II destroyer, and is arguably the unluckiest ship in the history of the world. She lasted less than two years, until her ...

As the massive cargo ship that downed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month navigated the globe, its sister ship was never too far away. The Dali, a 984-foot, Singapore-flagged vessel, ...

I have raised the subject of SL-7’s as museum ships before in a cursory fashion, but lunch with John Riddle, a retired Sea-Lander, convinced us that it deserves a bit more consideration. Based on ...

Does the name Los Barcos ring a bell? Or Las Carabelas? You most likely know them as the Columbus fleet. The ships negotiated choppy waters for decades in Corpus Christi before the last remaining one, ...

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MOBILE, Ala. — Juneteenth has long had special meaning for the descendants of the last slave ship known to come to the United States, the Clotilda. People like Vernetta Henson and Darron Patterson of ...

Even the most seasoned cruiser will find the sailing experience on Sea Cloud different than any other at sea. With only 32 cabins spread over three decks, the ship has the intimacy of a yacht. The ...

The world had been living under the threat of nuclear war for the better part of a decade when President Dwight D. Eisenhower had an idea: Let’s give atomic power a makeover. Ike came up with Atoms ...

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While Greg Trauthwein never assigns me column subjects, each time the Great Ships issue comes around I go with the theme. However, I try to take a view askew on that subject and have found that these ...