The electrician is primarily a "dayworker," unless included in the engine room watch rotation. The boatswain also is a "dayworker," responsible for general ship upkeep. The able seaman on watch ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

Dutch shipping firm Longship has taken delivery of the diesel-electric general cargo ship Longearth. The 8,500-dwt vessel was built by Turkey's Atlas Shipyard as is part of a four-vessel order placed ...

Its value is estimated at 750 million dollars. The last time a ship of this size was lost in a war conflict was the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, which was torpedoed and sunk by the British ...