Check out the story below for the latest updates on the Costa Concordia disaster off the Italian coast. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/16/world/europe/italy-ship-scene/index.html?hpt=hp_t1#

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2012/01/08/bpr-fraser-nz-cargo-ship-splits.cnn.html Check out the story in the link above to see amazing video footage of a cargo ship that has split in two off the coast of New Zealand.  

When the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of the southern coastline along the Atlantic and in Gulf of Mexico to interrupt vital flows of supplies to the Confederacy.  More than five hundred ships manned by one hundred thousand sailors served on the blockade by the end of the war.  Through its [...]