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.

The remains of an old wooden ship that could date back to the 1700s washed ashore on a beach near St. Augustine on Tuesday morning. Researchers are rushing to study it before tides pull it back ...

A 135-year-old ship is being taken apart after efforts to restore it failed. ... The ship "Equator" dates back to 1888. It has sat in drydock on the Everett waterfront since the 1960s.

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 ...