The Coast Guard received a mayday call shortly before 4:40 p.m. from the ship Asteras reporting a fire in its lifeboat at the ...

The project repurposes an office building into a hotel with amenities such as a restaurant, bar, skybridge and fitness room. ...

It’s long overdue and taken years to begin, but the dredging of Portland Harbor will finally move forward this winter, with the construction of a “confined aquatic disposal" cell — basically a deep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 18—The long-awaited $25 million Portland Harbor dredging project starts on Monday as contractors begin digging a 9-acre pit ...

The Portland Harbor Master's Office says a lifeboat aboard a larger commercial ship caught fire Thursday afternoon.

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A spokesperson for Weymouth Lifeboat said: “HM Coastguard requested the all-weather lifeboat (ALB), Ernest and Mabel, launch in response to a mayday from a 25ft motor vessel which had suffered engine ...

The captain of the ill-fated cargo ship that sank in a hurricane off the Bahamas with no survivors last week was an experienced and highly trusted mariner who had spent a lifetime on the water, ...

Tributes have been paid to a seaman's "heroic" actions during the 85th commemoration of the sinking of a World War Two flak ship. Leading Seaman Jack Mantle continued to fire at German bombers who ...