QUINCY — If you don’t know your way around the decks of the USS Salem, you might never run into John Connor. The retired marine's office is a tiny room that, more than half a century ago, was fit for ...

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I have raised the subject of SL-7’s as museum ships before in a cursory fashion, but lunch with John Riddle, a retired Sea-Lander, convinced us that it deserves a bit more consideration. Based on ...

People in Key West welcome the Sunward cruise ship in September 1970. U.S. Navy photo Monroe County Public Library Key West has been a featured destination for the cruise industry for so many years ...

MOBILE, Ala. — Juneteenth has long had special meaning for the descendants of the last slave ship known to come to the United States, the Clotilda. People like Vernetta Henson and Darron Patterson of ...

The world had been living under the threat of nuclear war for the better part of a decade when President Dwight D. Eisenhower had an idea: Let’s give atomic power a makeover. Ike came up with Atoms ...

As the massive cargo ship that downed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last month navigated the globe, its sister ship was never too far away. The Dali, a 984-foot, Singapore-flagged vessel, ...

Does the name Los Barcos ring a bell? Or Las Carabelas? You most likely know them as the Columbus fleet. The ships negotiated choppy waters for decades in Corpus Christi before the last remaining one, ...

A World War II-era ship born along the Napa River and tested in harrowing Navy and Coast Guard missions by the dozens looks to have a better future than the scrap heap. Mark “Doc” Avraham is ...

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While Greg Trauthwein never assigns me column subjects, each time the Great Ships issue comes around I go with the theme. However, I try to take a view askew on that subject and have found that these ...