A Chinese commercial vessel that has been surrounded by European warships in international waters for a week is central to an investigation of suspected sabotage that threatens to test the limits ...

Prosecutors say the man was captain of the Chinese-crewed Hong Tai 58, registered in Togo, which Taiwanese authorities detained after suspecting the ship had dropped anchor near an undersea cable off ...

The symmetrical arrangement of anchors helps to keep the ship on its fixed heading location. The spread mooring system does not allow the vessel to weathervane, which means to rotate in the ...

Before the invention of anchor chain ships used hemp rope, which often broke and put lives in danger.As the size of ships increased hemp rope anchor cables were not strong enough, and in hot ...

The Stena Immaculate will be towed to the Port of Great Yarmouth later this week, a month after it was struck while at anchor in the North Sea by the container ship Solong. The US tanker has been ...

Work to recover an anchor of a ship from the late 13th century Mongolian armada that tried to invade Japan is under way off the coast of Takashima island in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture. The ...