U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduates lived for years in a "neglected" Kings Point campus that has fallen into deep disrepair, with students often struggling with a lack of hot water or dorms rotting ...

South Korean shipowner Sinokor Merchant Marine has firmed up a KRW 834.8bn ($611.1m) order for a quartet of scrubber-fitted ...

USMMA received 1,700 applications this year, but only accepted 280 appointees. Despite the odds, two friends from the Coast ...

Merchant marines salute each other as they walk to class at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, on Aug. 1, 2016. (Yana Paskova/The Washington Post via Getty Images) ...

Created in 1938, the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps moved to the Merchant Marine Academy's current location in Kings Point, N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island, in 1943.

The superintendent and deputy superintendent of the U S Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, stepped down ...

Laura Sherrill, of the Kayhi Class of 2020, graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York ...

One day after the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduated its class of 2025, the Department of Transportation announced that ...

US Merchant Marine Academy students who say they were victims of sexual assault remain reluctant to report their alleged assailants in ways that would prompt investigations, a new report from the ...

THIS year the United States expects to build over four times as many ships as were launched by all the countries of the world in 1938, when shipbuilding was at a 17-year peak. By the end of the war ...

On July 4, the NYK-TDG Maritime Academy (NTMA), a merchant marine academy jointly operated by NYK and the Transnational ...

During World War II, approximately 250,000 mariners served, with nearly 10,000 losing their lives—a higher per capita casualty rate than had any branch of the armed services.