In the past few months, the Navy experienced the worst peacetime surface ship collisions in over 41 years. When the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald collided with commercial vessels, it claimed the ...

Transiting from the open seas to a constricted and highly trafficked sea lane for the final approach to a busy port is a demanding seamanship task, if for no other reason than you are operating in ...

In a darkened room on Naval Station Norfolk that simulated the bridge of a destroyer, Ensign Alex Varon took a crack at doing something that would likely never happen in the real world: docking a ship ...

Collisions between U.S. Navy ships and commercial vessels have cost 17 sailors their lives in June and August of this year, aboard the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), on June 17, and the USS John S. McCain ...

A junior officer looks through binoculars while standing watch on the bridge aboard the destroyer Carney. (MC2 James Turner/Navy) WASHINGTON — A three-month internal review conducted by senior U.S.

The Memorial Day week-end is the traditional start of the boating season. Agencies that patrol Texas waterways want boaters to know that all too often a day on the water ends badly because basic ...

The Michigan Maritime Museum is offering Basic Seamanship Classes to individuals interested in learning how to sail the museum’s traditionally rigged sailing vessel Friends Good Will. Students will ...

The Michigan Maritime Museum is offering basic seamanship classes to those interested in learning how to sail the Museum’s traditionally-rigged sailing vessel Friends Good Will. Students will learn ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will offer a seamanship course from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Feb. 20 at Loch Lomond Yacht Club at 95 Loch Lomond Drive. The program, titled “Basic Skills and ...

To the editor: There was yet another collision recently involving a guided-missile destroyer and a commercial vessel. The collision reported in The Times emphasizes the poor seamanship of our U.S.

FISHERMEN across 57 beaches in 11 parishes received certificates in safety at a graduation ceremony on November 19. Their training formed part of the Jamaica Fishermen Co-operative enhancement of the ...