The anti-ship ballistic missile struck the M/V Marlin Luanda — which is British-owned but flies under a Marshall Islands flag — at about 7:45 p.m. local time, CENTCOM reported.

At the start of the war, German U-boats began to destroy merchant ships in the Atlantic and the British Government needed to ...

A British merchant vessel was attacked by Houthi terrorists 105 nautical miles north of Yemen's Hodediah on Friday, United Kingdom's Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported on X/Twitter. The ...

To fill the need for merchant ships, the Maritime Commission settled on a standardized design based on a pre-war British merchant vessel that could be built in already existing shipyards. Emphasis ...

Greek and British maritime officials advised merchant ships to avoid the Strait of Hormuz after Israel's strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, though the critical oil corridor remains open for now.

Despite the best efforts of American privateers to harass British shipping, it was the U.S. merchant marine that suffered most. In 1813 only a third of American merchant ships got out to sea.

British police and harbor authorities are preparing to board the Israeli freighter Avocadocore, ... announced that the owners of 15 merchant ships trapped in the Suez Canal since June, 1967, ...