For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

In December 1943, amid brutal Arctic weather, HMS Duke of York led an Allied convoy when it encountered one of Germany’s most feared commerce raiders: the fast and heavily armed Scharnhorst. Though ...

In 2012, over 3,000 people showed up to the birthday party of Dutch teenager Merthe Weusthuis, who had accidentally made her ...

A single broken plate helped a crew identify the SS Nantes shipwreck after 140 years, revealing the remnants of the vessel ...

It's a part of Maine maritime history that is unknown to many. In October 1836, a ship headed from New Brunswick to Portland ...

During the Battle of Tassafaronga, the USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese torpedo that detonated its forward magazines, killing 182 men and ripping away a large forward section of the cruiser.

The Real Project X," a documentary about a party gone horribly wrong — and it's already No. 2 in the Netflix top 10.

Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the team led by famed explorer Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the wreck as a result of a mission to find, map, photograph and explore the lost ships of ...

A shipwreck from 1880 was discovered in the Fox River in Oshkosh in April. It's likely the L.W. Crane, one of several ships ...