Shall be very glad to get there, as five weeks on board a crowded troop ship with very little opportunity for exercise is getting rather irksome, especially, when we get no ‘Daily Paper’, only a ...

What are watches on board ship? Life at sea meant short bursts of work followed by short periods of rest, these four-hour long segments of the day are called watches. These are the divisions of the ...

Businessmen needed to make important deals, holidaymakers travelled for leisure and some people just wanted to experience life on board the world's biggest and most luxurious ship. A lot of ...

Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never ... the 'starboard' or "steering board" side. (The term 'starboard' is thought to have originated in the Viking era.) ...

Above all, they faced the daily dangers of sea and weather. A seaman's life was hard, and he had to be tough to survive, so ship's officers kept strict discipline on board. In this way they hoped to ...

A description of conditions on board the slave ships and an outline of the Zong case of 29 November 1781. Poor weather conditions and inept navigation resulted in a journey that took months rather ...

Who is on trial here, Socrates or Athenian democracy itself? To make this plausible, Plato illustrates his account with his famous ‘ship of fools’ analogy: Imagine a sea voyage on which all that are ...

Images from on board have shown large groups of people entering and leaving the ship by motor boat, as well as several Yemenis armed with rifles walking the deck. At least one part of the ship ...

Cruising quietly through the Frier Fjord in southern Norway, the Yara Birkeland looks like an ordinary small ship. However, by the end of the year, the number of crew on board will be reduced from ...

Not much is known of the ship’s captain, John Limbrey ... At today’s prices, this would be worth just under £35m. Also on board was ‘each man’s adventure’, meaning each crew member’s personal haul of ...

Currently, the Spirit of Tasmania welcomes pets – dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets, ducks, you name it – on board any of their vessels. However, these beloved domestic companions are kept in ...

A singer who used to work on a cruise ship has dished out the chilling reason that employees would randomly throw “free ice cream parties” on board. Dara Starr Tucker has been sharing her experiences ...