Michigan (WWJ) — A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying records related to merchant mariner credentials. Mel Stackpoole, 62, of St. Clair County entered his plea Tuesday in ...

After months of preparation and years of training, the United States Merchant Marine Academy hosted its 89th Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 23. The ceremony did not only honor the graduating ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Preparing to ship off thousands of miles away this week, merchant marines, including local grads from Hawaii spent Father's Day on Oahu. Castle H.S. grad Django ...

Main objective of the U. S. Maritime Commission in its task of reviving the U. S. merchant marine is the construction of at least 500 new ships in the next ten years. To man these ships, the ...

In June 1775 in Machias, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), townspeople refused to provide the British with lumber to build barracks for their troops, resulting in the British bringing in the armed ...

A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying records related to merchant mariner credentials. Mel Stackpoole, 62, of St. Clair County entered his plea Tuesday in federal court to one ...