We Who Are Weary” offers a fresh, people-focused perspective on the history of the 19th-century retirement home for mariners.

Woman Marine—on deck, and I felt the weight of all eyes watching me for every right or wrong move I made. Women were less ...

The United States was effectively cut off from the rest of the world. As the maritime historian Salvatore R. Mercogliano ...

This story has been updated to clarify when sailors must choose to leave service. Active-duty sailors diagnosed or displaying ...

The Advanced Plant Habitat, which grew the first New Mexico chile in space, is no longer available for agricultural research.

Robbie Williams made headlines last month after revealing that he’d been diagnosed with scurvy, following rapid weight loss ...

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for an extensive look at how sailors aboard aircraft carriers keep these vessels and ...

The Gimlet cocktail is one of the easiest classic cocktails to craft at home. It's also one of the classiest.In simple terms, the Gimlet is a sophisticated sipper that combines gin with lime and sugar ...

Scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin C in the diet. And until it was discovered that citrus was the right medicine, millions of people—sailors in particular—died from it. “The modern ...

Yet it took much longer for humans to realise that the lemon was also a cure for a dreadful illness called scurvy, that had been the bane of seafarers for thousands of years. During the 15th ...

She fears a return of scurvy, which was rife in the 17th and 18th centuries and killed more than two million British sailors who notoriously survived on preserved foods with limited access at sea ...

"A 17th-century pirate disease." Indeed, scurvy was a lot more common amongst old world sailors on long voyages out at sea, due to the limited access of fresh fruits and vegetables. “With body ...