On July 19, 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Vital de Oliveira, a Brazilian ship that transported troops ...
The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net got caught on the shipwreck.
The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II, being the ship that delivered components for the atomic bombs. As the flagship of the U.S. Fifth ...
Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 ...
From the Costa Concordia cruise ship to the Golden Ray cargo ship, take a look back at some of the biggest maritime disasters around the world in modern history. On Jan. 13, 2012, the Costa ...
I write about the world of biology. The World War II shipwrecks scattered across ... and Japan into epic confrontations. Each sunken ship, whether American, Japanese or Australian, marks the ...
A German U-boat sunk the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 672 of the 902 servicemen, ...
The U.S. military is working on a new effort to identify the remains of service members killed in the infamous World War ...
In 1917, on a patrol ship in the dangerous waters around Britain, the artist and illustrator Norman Wilkinson had a brainwave. As a Royal Navy volunteer in World War One, he had become all too ...