Ships of the line were built specifically for war and boasted heavy armor as well as overwhelming firepower, while galleons were used for many purposes.

One of the oldest ships in the Royal Navy fleet sailed from Portsmouth today in the Spring sunshine. HMS Ledbury, a Hunt-class minehunter commissioned in June 1981, travelled past The Round Tower ...

The WindWings aren't the sort of canvas sails that you see on old pictures of the Cutty Sark. Instead, they are solid, foldable sails made of steel and glass fibers and stand 37.5-m (123-ft) tall.

The Oceanbird Wing 560 isn’t a wing, but it isn’t a sail either. When it’s first assembled a few months from now in a shipyard just north of Malmö, Sweden, it’ll be 40 meters high with a ...

16 photos. Photo: Variety Cruises. Cruise ships have their advantages, but there’s something about sailing ships, especially old ones, that can’t be matched.

Using wind power to sail is a very old idea and almost all modern ships use fossil fuels to power them. But because burning fossil fuels releases harmful gases that contribute to climate change ...

WindWings may be an entirely modern take on the old sailing ships, but the technology could revive some of the old clipper ship routes that have long fallen out of favor, BAR's Cooper says.