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The ships sunk in ocean with historic significance needs to be protected from the corrosive electrolyte solution of the ocean. The electrochemical and spectroscopic techniques are discussed which can be used to protect and preserve the historic metal artifacts of the shipwrecks.

Byline: Shawn Macomber Philadelphia Ensconced within the catacomb-like coal room deep in the bowels of the USS Olympia, wherein soot-swaddled men endured 120-degree heat and singeing hair to keep the [...]

'Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ...' So wrote 21-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) in 1830, decrying a proposal to scrap the USS Constitution. When launched in the 1790s, she [...]

A visitor centre for the Cutty Sark will be made possible by raising the sailing ship 1.5m to create space underneath, reports Elaine Knutt The temporary visitor pavilion alongside the [...]

The construction details of the SS Great Britain Center in Bristol, taken up by Alec French Architects are presented. The museum will consist of a collection of dockside sheds, ship-repair yards and the great ship itself.

LORD NELSON'S FLAGSHIP, HMS Victory, is undergoing a 40 million £ restoration in its drydock home in Portsmouth. In the process, workers have chipped away 72 layers of paint to [...]

With a 12 million £ grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Britain's National Museum of the Royal Navy [www.nmrn.org.uk] is restoring the World War I light cruiser HMS Caroline, the [...]

AFTER 19 YEARS and millions of gallons of water and wax, engineers turned off the jets that have been continually spraying the hull of Mary Rose. The historic milestone brings [...]

FOLLOWING A DISASTROUS FIRE in 2007, the legendary tea-clipper Curry Sark has received a 50 million £ renovation over the last five years. Now, the historic ship has been officially [...]

The most extensive restoration work ever undertaken on HMS Victory has begun. The historic ship's masts and rigging have been dismantled. The project is expected to take 10 years to [...]

The schooner Coronet launched on August 17, 1885. C & R Poillon of Brooklyn, New York, built her for the industrialist Rufus T. Bush. Designed to cruise the world's oceans [...]

Saved from the scrap yard nearly two decades ago, the S.S. Badger now finds itself in good company--among other historic structures enshrined on the National Register of Historic Places. The [...]

It was quite a case of mission creep--from ferrying civilian passengers in New York City to fighting a naval battle to wrest New Orleans from the Confederates. But it was [...]

It is well known to history that the H.L. Hunley became the first submarine ever to sink an enemy warship when it successfully attacked the USS Housatonic. Then the Hunley […]

A gift of 3.3 million £ to save the historic Cutty Sark was announced on June 24th. The donation from shipping magnate Sammy Ofer closes the funding gap for the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Grimshaw has unveiled images of a 25 million [pounds sterling] scheme that will see the Cutty Sark riding the waves once again. But under Grimshaw's design the [...]

Crews fished something huge out of the Atlantic Ocean this summer. It was not a sea creature, however. It was a piece of a famous ship--the USS Monitor. The USS [...]

Retired Rear Adm. Thomas J. Patterson was awarded the World Ship Trust Maritime Heritage Award and the American Ship Trust Award for saving the Liberty ship Jeremiah O'Brien from the scrap yard and sailing it to Normandy, France, in time for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. The awards were given out by the World Ship Trust and the National Maritime Historical Society.