DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An explosion has struck a Hong Kong-flagged container ship traveling north through the Red Sea, sparking a major fire that forced its crew to abandon the ...

The upside-down flag, once a signal of distress for sailors, has been used as a form of protest for several decades. Before the 2024 presidential election, the upside-down flag had also come to ...

A chunk of Russia’s oil tanker fleet is being forced to change the flag they sail under, as U.S. and U.K. sanctions heap pressure on Moscow’s shipping network. The Barbados ship registry said that by ...

“In 1783, having become a traitor and a pirate, José Gaspar gave the name of “Gasparilla” to himself as well as to his ship and the island in Charlotte Harbor, on the west coast of Florida ...

Video released by the Sarasota Police Department shows a pirate ship and smaller boats flying pirate flags. The event originated as a May Day celebration in 1904 and was named after the Spanish pirate ...

According to an account by André-Marcel d’Ans and translated by Marie-Joèle Ingalls, Gaspar was a Spanish naval officer, who in the early 1780s, mutinied against his captain, stole a ship, and fled to ...

Traveling over our heads at hypersonic speeds beyond Mach 7, lies the future of spy plane technology. It can be anywhere in the world in one hour, enter any country unnoticed, and be out before their ...

(Bloomberg) -- A chunk of Russia’s oil tanker fleet is being forced to change the flag they sail under as US and UK sanctions heap pressure on Moscow’s shipping network. The Barbados ship ...