The tugboat Fort McHenry, one of nearly 150 vessels currently operating out of seven Vane Brothers locations along the U.S. East Coast, has joined the company’s New York-based Alpha Fleet and is ...

Fleet Week is coming back Sept. 7-13, as Baltimore plays host to ships from the U.S., Canadian, British and Danish navies. Advertisement Chris Rowsom is the executive director of Historic Ships in ...

Host Liane Hansen travels to Fort McHenry in Baltimore with historian Anthony Pitch, author of "The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814." (Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557504253 ...

British ships invaded the Chesapeake during the War of 1812 and the then-weekly Maryland Gazette reported enemy movements, the burning of Washington, D.C., and bombing of Fort McHenry. To commemora… ...

Baltimore went a little War-of-1812-crazy last year, when some 1.5 million people crowded into the Inner Harbor to celebrate the bicentennial of the last time Great Britain invaded the U.S. And thi… ...

At Fort McHenry, even in winter, Greg McGuire and his platoon have enough work to keep busy from dawn’s early light to the twilight’s last gleaming. Their orders: to defend the fort against ...