As you venture to the northernmost city in the world, Tromso, you’ll find yourself, like thousands of others, searching the ...

The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale ...

The Whalers’ Memory Bank brings together new and lost stories of Scottish whalers and their intrepid adventures on South ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Since 2022 local voters twice have supported referendums that effectively ban visits by ships that carry 1,000 or more ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts State Division of Marine Fisheries have launched a new program to track where and when the ...

Lorraine Kelly said she was "shaking like a leaf" as she scaled the mast of the RRS Discovery ship in Dundee, ahead of the ...

The Dominica government has delayed passage of legislation to establish a sperm whale reserve due to concerns raised by some ...

Lorraine Kelly, who hails from the Gorbals in Glasgow, raced fellow presenter Dan Snow up the historic ship's 25-meter mast in Dundee before abseiling to the ground.