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., Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, where it will be prepared to be ...

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 maiden cruise just before sunset on Saturday - towers ...

Three weeks after a fire broke out on the ship off the coast of Alaska, the Morning Midas sank, along with thousands of cars on board. By Francesca Regalado A cargo ship that caught fire off the coast of Alaska sank in the Pacific Ocean on Monday after ...

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 turned a corner. A recent panel discussion on the ...

As we excavate a 500-year-old wreck, learn the secrets behind history’s great ships. The Age of Exploration and Europe’s imperial colonization of far-off lands was launched by a revolution in ship design that made long-distance voyages practical.

The MSC Poesia never left PortMiami.

“The vessel was starting to lean and deteriorate, so they could see some of the structures around the mast starting to collapse,” Nolan Conway, an architect with the marine salvage firm Resolve Marine Group, who was contracted for the initiative, told CBS News. “The fear is the masts could have fallen onto the cargo itself, causing it to detonate.”

Cargo and cruise ships take weeks to cross the Atlantic, while jet airliners make the same trip in a few short hours. Why don't ships use jet engines?