Almost ready to ply the Great Lakes again, the sloop Welcome will be a living history lesson when launched next month by the Maritime Heritage Alliance. The real Welcome began life as a trading vessel ...

AS the 2024 year begins, the government has already announced plans for co-curricular sailing in schools, for a new National Sailing Academy, and for new oversight bodies for sloop sailing. As a ...

Deep sea divers have uncovered an extraordinary find at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes: the HMS Ontario, a 22-gun British sloop that sank in 1780 after seeing action in the American Revolution.

Early one morning last week, the 1,470-ton British sloop Amethyst steamed slowly up the Yangtze toward Nanking. On her starboard hand, massed for the assault across the river, lay the Communist armies ...

The wreck of a German submarine sunk in an engagement with the Royal Navy during World War One with the loss of the entire crew has been found. Haunting images of U-87 have been seen for the first ...