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Traditional navigation skills are a hallmark of prudent seamanship, and they can be lifesaving when you’re at sea.

On July 24, 2013, lobsterman John Aldridge fell overboard 40 miles off Long Island, New York, as his fishing partner aboard Anna Mary, Anthony Sosinski, slept below.

The Great Lakes are the largest source of fresh surface water in the world, providing food, work and recreation for millions. Yet they are under threat, and their problems are worsening.

Last September a ship was discovered on the bottom of an Arctic bay, solving a more than 170-year-old mystery — the fate of Sir John

Andrew Halcrow was in his 20s when he built Elsi Arrub, a 32-foot ketch, and sailed her around the world with his brother, a voyage

In Around Cape Horn Once More, Paul W. Simpson tells the story of Montebello, a French-built clipper ship that was lost off Australia in 1906.

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914-17 Antarctic expedition is one of maritime history’s most incredible survival stories. When Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice

The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, may be the most thoroughly researched and chronicled maritime disaster in history, but we know little

“From the start,” George Michelson Foy writes in Finding North, “staying alive has depended on navigation: the art of figuring out our position and in