was searching for the wreckage of an English Navy vessel that sank in the Strait of Gibraltar in 1694 when they instead stumbled upon the remnants of a 17th-century Barbary pirate ship.

By the 17th century, surgeons were a regular presence on English merchant and naval ships. This was an era of improved ship technology, maritime exploration and rapidly developing global trade and ...

With the end of the monopoly, the number of slaves transported on English ships would increase dramatically -- to an average of over 20,000 a year. By the end of the 17th century, England led the ...

The bomb was towed five miles from Southend Pier before being detonated Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have destroyed a World War Two device found in the wreck of a 17th Century warship.

Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair ... a search for the remains of the 80-gun English warship HMS Sussex, which was lost ...

By the 17th century, surgeons were a regular presence on English merchant and naval ships. This was an era of improved ship technology, maritime exploration and rapidly developing global trade and ...