October 1939. In Britain’s supposedly impregnable naval base of Scapa Flow, the battleship HMS Royal Oak lay at anchor. Under ...

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The German U-boat force maintained a fearsome reputation. But American submariners fought more effectively.

The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the ...

Thousands of vessels — 6,000 or more — lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Several hundred could lie beneath the waves in the part of Lake Michigan that falls under Illinois’ ...

Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body.

Moor, moor, moor: From superyachts to seminars, there's never been this many nautical novelties to sail through all berthed in one spot. FLIBS A $100 million superyacht blending into the crowd? Only ...

Officials say intercepted communications are the core of the intelligence collected on the boats. By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington The Trump administration claims that the boats it has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say the U.S. military has killed at least 37 people in nine strikes against drug-smuggling vessels ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --The United States attacked a boat in the eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing three people, totaling two boats and five deaths in two days. On Tuesday, the United States struck a boat ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

An alleged drug trafficking boat moments before it is struck Oct. 17, 2025. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared the video on his official X account on Oct. 19, 2025. DoD Photo The U.S. launched a ...