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18 months ago

Time was sail-powered vessels ruled the waves. The Age of Sail, as we now call it, lasted millennia. Then came steam engines and the...
45 months ago

If ocean shipping were a country, it would be the sixth-largest carbon emitter, releasing more CO2 annually than Germany.
56 months ago

[Culture Change editor's note: In this timely and comprehensive work, the author charts a most resonable future. Dmitry Orlov is known for...
231 months ago

The engineers, from the Hamburg company SkySails, were testing the potential of high-tech kites to pull a ship across the ocean by hitching a ride on winds...
249 months ago

More than a dozen navies around the world already employ tall sailing ships in order to train sailors in basic seamanship.
2 months ago

This column examines the battle performance of British Royal Navy officers during the Age of Sail and finds that patronage 'worked'.
74 months ago

I wanted to brighten it up as much as possible, and I shall never regret the decision which I took. Whereas had I acted differently,...
72 months ago

Author Robin Lloyd discusses his novel Rough Passage and gives a multimedia presentation of the history of New York packet ships.
132 months ago

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist. Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has solidified an image of the Golden Age of Piracy in the...
4 months ago