A flotilla of U.S. Navy ships and thousands of Sailors and Marines set sail May 19 from Norfolk, to participate in the 21st Fleet Week New York, which will take place May 21 - 28.

Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy.

SIMFEROPOL, January 4 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian rescue services have resumed search for eight missing crewmembers of a Bulgarian cargo ship that sank Thursday in the Azov Sea between Ukraine and Russia, an emergencies service spokesman said Friday.

Two crewmembers have died and one is missing after a Russian cargo ship sank off the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Ukraine, a regional administration official said on Sunday.

The Freedom Ship has little in common with a conventional ship; it is actually nothing more than a big barge.

A Turkish ferry rammed head-on into a Ukranian-flagged freighter ship, which was anchored off the northwest coast in the Sea of Marmara on Friday, slightly injuring dozens of ferry passengers, a spokesman of the ferry boat company said

The IMB report shows that so far this year, 13 vessels were hijacked by heavily armed attackers, 152 crew members were taken hostage, 41 were kidnapped and three were killed.

A massive crane reaches down 25 stories, picks up a container filled with Asian goods, and sets it on a truck for delivery. This quay crane works day and night. But even running nonstop, the cranes can barely keep up with the growing volume of freight moving from Asian factories to American stores. Slow-moving, expensive cranes sit at the crux of an overloaded freight system.

A cruiser with 281 passengers onboard has run aground sustaining damage off the Alaska coast, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said Monday.

Dr Alwyn Ruddock, a former reader in history at the University of London, was the world expert on John Cabot's discovery voyages from Bristol to North America (1496-98). What she was said to have found out about these voyages looked set to re-write the history of the European discovery of America.