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A model of a three-masted ship.
Baltimore, Maryland

Fell's Point Maritime Museum

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.
These ships were used as houseboats during the Great Depression.
Baltimore, Maryland

Curtis Creek Ship Graveyard

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.
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The Biggest Ship Ever to Arrive on the East Coast Has Arrived on the East Coast

The COSCO Development is very large.
Erik Shilling May 12, 2017
Mock up of Mazarrón 2 during archaeological invstigation, National Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Cartagena,
Puerto de Mazarrón, Spain

Phoenician Ships of Mazarrón

Two 2,500-year-old Phoenician boats found on the coast of Spain, giving incredible insight into the ancient maritime traders.
The old wellies decorate the slipway at the St Monans harbour.
Saint Monans, Scotland

Wellie Garden of St Monans

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.
Steamship William G. Mather
Cleveland, Ohio

Steamship William G. Mather

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."
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The Biggest Ship Yet Just Traversed the Panama Canal

It's as long as the Eiffel Tower.
Cara Giaimo May 4, 2017
The house on Fiskergade 82, where Drakenberg lived.
Aarhus, Denmark

Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg's Last Home

The final home of the legendary Danish sailor said to have lived to be 146 years old.
One of Caligula's sunken pleasure ships, retrieved from the bottom of Lake Nemi in the 1920s.
ships

Divers in Italy Are Searching for Caligula’s Last, Lost Pleasure Ship

The Roman emperor's prized boats boasted marble, gold, and running water.
Cara Giaimo April 10, 2017
A mock-up of a ship heads for the Stad Tunnel.
ships

Norway Is Building a Huge Tunnel for Ships

It's a way to bypass the infamous Stad peninsula, where the sea is so rough it scared the Vikings.
Cara Giaimo April 6, 2017
Wreckage of the SS Valencia along the shore of Pachena Bay.
Pachena Beach, British Columbia

Wreck of the SS Valencia

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."
The <em>Oberburgermeister Haken</em> was one of two ships to carry intellectuals from the early USSR in 1922.
ships

The Ships That Helped Silence the Early USSR's Intellectuals

In 1922, Russia exiled hundreds of academics and journalists on "Philosophers' Ships" to make way for the Soviet Union.
Eric Grundhauser February 14, 2017
The submarine pens in La Rochelle.
La Rochelle, France

Nazi U-Boat Pens, La Pallise

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.
Bow
Annapolis, Maryland

U.S.S. Agerholm Model

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.
The bottle was not quite this fancy.
ships

Found: The Owner of a Message-in-a-Bottle Sent in 1983

It took 34 years for the finder to track down the sender.
Sarah Laskow January 20, 2017
Aerial view of Hotel Unique with red pool on top
São Paulo, Brazil

Hotel Unique

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.
Boat hotel atop the cliff
Gangneung, South Korea

Sun Cruise Resort and Yacht

The world's first cruise ship-shaped hotel is perched atop a cliff.
Gravestones at the British Cemetery .
Ocracoke, North Carolina

British Cemetery of Ocracoke

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.