Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, its sister ship Britannic, and a third disaster, and still went back to sea.

The remains of the historic HMS Endeavour have been definitively located at a site near Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

Disney Cruise Line details the shopping experience for the new Disney Adventure with almost 17,000 square feet of retail ...

A viewing platform offers front-row seats on the manoeuvres of cargo ships — some of which ... Published in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

The new film tells the story of Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, who shattered barriers to achieve her dream ...

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

Forensic scientist Frankie West examines samples of wood from the ship's hold in hopes of recovering DNA from captives' blood or bodily fluids. Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic ...

National Geographic Now, archaeologists have come up with more revelations that make the already exceptional Clotilda rarer still. “This is the most intact slave ship known to exist in the ...