The San Francisco Chronicle writes that the original Old Ship (which the owner simply cut a hole in the side of, added a plank, and invited miners into for a drink back in its day) probably ...

In December 1849, a three-masted whaling ship called the Arkansas blew ashore onto Alcatraz Island and later was towed onto a beach in the breezy waterfront neighborhood known as the Barbary Coast.

A century-old maritime mystery has been solved. In 1898, the wooden steamship L.R. Doty sank during a fierce storm in the waters of Lake Michigan, killing all 17 people -- and two cats -- aboard ...