Just like the old, clichéd saying goes, “The two happiest days in a sailor’s life are the day he buys his boat, and the day he sells it.” And it appears John John Florence is doing the latter, now, as ...

Close to 200 years after first being used to assert geopolitical dominance, gunboat diplomacy is very much alive and well. ...

Lake Champlain was the site of several naval battles during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The general consensus had been that it was best to keep shipwrecks in the lake because the cold ...

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — Lost and found but now home at the New York State Museum, researchers and archaeologists are preparing a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit focused on an 18th-century revolutionary war ...

The White House cites drug enforcement, but analysts say the military buildup just off the coast of Venezuela recalls a return to gunboat diplomacy.

Conservators have spent the last 14 years carefully cleaning and restoring the 18th-century ship. New York State Museum In 2010, construction crews working in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a ...

In October 1776, a small American fleet clashed with British warships on Lake Champlain during the Battle of Valcour Island. One of the American ships, the Philadelphia, was badly damaged in the ...

Follow the multiyear project to preserve the gunboat USS Philadelphia, an iconic reminder of the spirit of the American Revolution. The Philadelphia was part of a small American fleet, hastily built ...