8 Surprising Things U.S. Navy Sailors Were Forbidden to Bring Aboard Ship

Mathisen, Unsplash Life aboard a U.S. Navy ship came with strict rules, including what you could bring on the ship. Some of ...
Cheapism

6 Cruise Ship Casinos Passengers Say Are Fun, and 6 That Dominate Too Much of the Ship

Explore 12 cruise ship casinos, from six casual-friendly favorites to six where smoke, crowds, or location may get in the way ...
National Geographic

Meet the man who sinks the world’s biggest ships for a living

How a professional ship-sinker is about to turn a famous ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef The SS United States is towed at sunset past Key West, Fla., headed to Mobile, Ala., ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Once the World’s Biggest Passenger Ship, This Metal Marvel That Crossed the Atlantic and Took Immigrants to Australia Has a New Museum Home

In the mid-19th century, the people of Bristol, England, watched a mammoth rise from their docks. Christened the S.S. Great Britain, the ship stretched nearly 330 feet long and weighed some 2,000 tons ...
CNN

This cruise ship can carry nearly 10,000 people. Here’s more of what sets Icon of the Seas apart

There is nothing subtle about the world’s largest cruise ship. Royal Caribbean’s new, nearly 1,200-foot-long and 250,800 gross ton Icon of the Seas - which set sail from the Port of Miami on its ...
National Defense Magazine

Littoral Combat Ship Still Fighting to Prove Its Worth

The Littoral Combat Ship was meant to start the Navy’s operational renaissance. But a chorus of naysayers and critics have put service leaders on the defensive, insisting that the troubled program has ...