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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...