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A sailing ship typical of the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730) as seen through a telescope. From the TV series Black Sails. ©2014 Starz Entertainment

Model of a Roman grain ship, National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel.

An Assyrian relief from King Sargon II's palace at Khorsabad showing a Phoenician ship transporting cedar logs. This type of vessel was probably used for coastal work and transporting goods to shore from larger cargo vessels...

A Phoenician-Punic ship from a relief carving on a 2nd century CE sarcophagus

Peter the Great's ship, rigged with a sail and a mast with the help of Dutch carpenters.

The ship "El Galeon", a replica of a 17th century Spanish galleon, returned to Sète, France on Monday, April 15, 2019.

The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into...

A diagram showing the stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788.

Sir Henry Morgan (c. 1635-1688) was a Welsh privateer who operated in the Caribbean against the Spanish Empire and then became Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. Morgan was a charismatic and able military leader who masterminded devastating...

Military supremacy of the seas could be a crucial factor in the success of any land campaign, and the Romans well knew that a powerful naval fleet could supply troops and equipment to where they were most needed in as short...