Inside the Navy’s test basins, ship models are dragged, flooded with waves, and even self-propelled to reveal how their ...

How do professional mariners learn to handle huge, oceangoing ships? For some, the educational voyage goes through a small ...

Testing Ships in a Miniature OceanThe US Navy maintains an indoor ocean capable of simulating some of the world’s worst weather conditions, even with waves only four feet tall. These tests rely on ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Merrimack Valley Ship Model Club returns to participate in the annual Yankee Homecoming festival. The MVSMC exhibits over 70 ship models by club members and other ship modelers in ...

Custom-built, computer-based modeling software from Applied Science Associates Inc. (ASA) is being used to help locate the long-lost underwater wreckage of the ship used by Capt. John Paul Jones ...

A Jamestown man plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking in November with a mini documentary on his YouTube channel using his cardboard models of the Great Lakes ...