Few American are becoming mariners today, but demand could soon rise because President Trump and a bipartisan group of ...

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 ...

It’s all lock and focus at Kings Point as the 6-2 United States Merchant Marine Academy is shipping up to Boston to do battle ...

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 ...

More than 200 years ago, the American steamship S.S. Savannah set sail across the Atlantic, becoming the first vessel of its kind to complete the journey. That daring voyage marked the start of ...

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 ...