For almost the entirety of human civilization, large structures like buildings and ships have been constructed primarily out of wood. This makes sense, seeing as it's a relatively common material ...

Hampton Roads was the first time in military history that two ironclad warships squared off. March 8-9, 2025, marked the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads. This battle, though ...

The Battleship Iowa, a tourist attraction in the Port of Los Angeles since 2012, is among the more recent additions to the nation’s floating museum fleet and this mont, it embarked on a standard ...

It was 2 inches thick and would last 20 years. But it also had large crews of sailors taking constant care of the wood as long as the ships were active military vessels. Later, in the 1980s.