Woodman: went to sea in 1960 as a midshipman with Liverpool-based Alfred Holt & Co, the Blue Funnel Line Captain Richard Woodman, who has died aged 80, was a gifted and adventurous seaman, a prolific ...

WITH the completion of the Panama Canal at a comparatively early date, and the growing and natural desire of America to possess a mercantile marine of her own, it is safe to prophesy that, before ...

Outstanding among civilian heroes of this war are merchant seamen who, often without proper escort protection (see above), deliver munitions to the fighting fronts. Last week, while thousands of these ...

Thirteen of 30 merchant seamen on trial in Haifa on charges of assaulting policemen during the merchant seamen’s strike, were acquitted yesterday because of lack of evidence against them. They were ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Students in Saturday morning merchant seaman class in Jacksonville weren’t taking notes on typical classroom topics: They were learning how to abandon ship -- and live to tell 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 ...

Several israel merchant seamen aboard the cargo vessel Neir Dizengoff have been ordered by a Russian military court not to set foot on Soviet soil for the next 28 years, the newspaper Haboker reported ...