With its blend of natural wonders, maritime history, and small-town charm, Alpena offers visitors the rare opportunity to experience the authentic Michigan that exists beyond the well-worn tourist ...

Culligan Plaza serves as downtown Alpena’s central gathering space, a small but mighty park where community events and casual meetups occur with equal frequency. The iconic Alpena bi-centennial ...

Bulkheads are the internal walls that divide a ship’s hull into watertight compartments, forming the backbone of maritime safety and structure. This overview explains how they prevent flooding, ...

ROGERS CITY, MI – This two-masted schooner is a remarkably well preserved shipwreck, even retaining its cargo of coal after 157 years. The F.T. Barney collided with another ship on Oct. 23, 1868, and ...

Norway is constructing the world's first tunnel for cruise ships, the Stad Ship Tunnel. This video provides insights into the details of its construction and highlights the significance of this ...

New York Yankees Aaron Judge connects for an RBI single against the Boston Red Sox during the fifth inning of Game 2 of an American League wild-card baseball playoff series, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, ...

I'm a little surprised that we haven't had a proper shipping simulator before now. I played Ship Simulator 2006 in, well, 2006, and that series received a couple more entries, but has remained dormant ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Emblematic of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, it is widely considered the strongest polar ...

It has been 110 years since Endurance, often described as the strongest wooden ship ever built, sank after becoming trapped in sea ice near Antarctica. But a reassessment of the evidence reveals that ...

Three weeks after explorer Ernest Shackleton ordered his men to abandon their ship, Endurance, in the fall of 1915, the vessel sank off the coast of Antarctica. Its fate has long been attributed to a ...

Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...

Royal Caribbean has done it again. The Miami-based cruise line floated a new world's largest cruise ship earlier this month, Legend of the Seas. The third vessel of the Icon-class is under ...