(Photo: Josh Valcarcel/Wired)This is the Martini 1.5, an innovative boat design by Velodyne Marine. As it whips across the waves at high speed, the deck remains level. That's because the Martini has an active suspension...

When it is completed, the first ship in Maersk Triple E series will be the largest ever built in human history. Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper got the chance to crawl around it for a few hours while the hulk, still u...

This is the Seaspan Harvester. It's a log barge that operates off the western coast of Canada. When it's time to offload its cargo of logs, the crew shifts the ballast inside. The ship tilts 30º and the logs slide o...

(Photo: Marine Traffic)At 400 meters long, the newly-launched Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller is the largest ship in the world. It left the South Korean port of Busan, where it was built, on July 16th en route to Rotterdam. The...

(YouTube link) Ben Schmidt took data from ship's logs to make a visualization of ocean traffic between 1750 and 1850. It is not meant to be comprehensive, as logs from many nations are not represented, and traffic on th...

To reduce drag on the hull, Mitsubishi Heavy I...  ...ate Archer Daniels Midland has ordered three such ships

This unique German naval vessel is designed to...  ...igned to recover spilled oil. The Bottsand-class ships , of which there are two, splits in order to scoop...  ...e 80's and are used to contain spills from German ships in the area. Link via DVICE | Photo: gCaptain

Not even the saltiest sailor nor most hardened M...  ...sist the charms of a cat. So popular were cats on ships that they were often considered part of the crew...

A team of archaeologists on the Greek island of Crete found a tool way older than what they expected to find. Thomas Strasser of the University of Providence and his crew hoped to find artifacts dating back as far as 11,...

These new vessels, set to enter service in Nov...  ...ute, Solar Sailor said on its Web site. Makers of ships , planes and autos around the world are trying to...