The U.S. Navy steamer Mohawk brought the captured slave ship Wildfire into Key West Harbor. The Wildfire had 510 Africans on ...

Centuries after Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa disappeared in the Caribbean, the charred and ...

The remains of two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica , previously thought to be pirate ships, have finally ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to ...

Wrecked Danish slave ships discovered, Danish Titanic passenger’s watch sold, warm spring weather and more news from Denmark ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

Danish slave ships from 1710 confirmed in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Excavations reveal Fridericus Quartus and ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...

Esek Hopkins was born on April 26, 1718 in Scituate to a prominent Rhode Island family. Hopkins became a merchant and sea ...

Discover what it's like to sail aboard the 44-passenger Harmony G along the coast of West Africa and up the Gambia River.