Woodman: went to sea in 1960 as a midshipman with Liverpool-based Alfred Holt & Co, the Blue Funnel Line Captain Richard Woodman, who has died aged 80, was a gifted and adventurous seaman, a prolific ...

In the early hours of March 26, the MV Dali, a 985-foot cargo ship weighing in whole over 91,000 tons, smashed into a supporting pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. The ship ...

A story acted and narrated by men of the Merchant Navy illustrates the way their war is fought: a merchant ship in convoy is sunk by a torpedo; the crew are rescued and later join another ship; and a ...

Outstanding among civilian heroes of this war are merchant seamen who, often without proper escort protection (see above), deliver munitions to the fighting fronts. Last week, while thousands of these ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Students in Saturday morning merchant seaman class in Jacksonville weren’t taking notes on typical classroom topics: They were learning how to abandon ship -- and live to tell the ...

In June 1775 in Machias, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), townspeople refused to provide the British with lumber to build barracks for their troops, resulting in the British bringing in the armed ...