While a handful of these centuries-old sailing words remain known only to the saltiest of seamen, many terms have since abandoned ship, swimming shoreward and embedding themselves in the ...

A founding member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, he spent much of his free time engaged in scientific pursuits. One of his final projects was this 'word-book' of nautical terminology, ...

We're introducing a new daily feature at Autoblog Military today, called "Military Terminology ... by explaining the difference between a boat and a ship, something you'll need to understand ...