The United States Navy has used the same standards to assign names and hull numbers to its vessels for more than a century.

The 683-ft (208.2-m) ship, along with her sistership, the SS Constitution, operates three, four and seven-day cruises among the Hawaiian islands. They are the only two U.S.-flag liners in operation.

Besides sending the whole world into chaos, Germans had an unlikely victim in BR Ambedkar during the First World War.

A new book details how a German submarine torpedoed the ship carrying B.R. Ambedkar's PhD dissertation and a vast collection ...

Most Germans realised long before Hitler’s self-immolation that the dictatorship had brought nothing but death and ...

National Maritime Day (April 5, India) This day commemorates the first Indian ship, SS Loyalty, which sailed from Mumbai to ... the principal architect of India's Constitution and a champion of social ...

As the ocean liner SS United States is being prepared for its final voyage, from Alabama to a site off Florida, we look back ...

The SS United States is about as long as three football fields laid end to end and had more than 400 passenger rooms.