Among the great scourges to plague humanity, the shipworm must be one of the most underappreciated. Since antiquity, these wood-boring sea animals have sunk ships around the world and quietly altered ...

The popular Folly Beach Pier won't close for repairs any time soon — and maybe not until later this year. Delays with federal permitting has put off the closure, which was expected last fall. "We are ...

Excavations at an ancient Egyptian shipyard have unearthed remains of the world's oldest seafaring ships. The 4,000-year-old timbers were found alongside equally ancient cargo boxes, anchors, coils of ...

PROVIDENCE — Reuben Shipway saw it pretty much as soon as he got down to the murky bottom of Newport Harbor on Aug. 7: a piece of wood from what may be Captain James Cook’s famed HMB Endeavour. But he ...