HMS Electra (Lucky Electra) was the savior of nearly 1,000 men after the sinking of HMS Hood. But her luck ran out at the ...

Hampshire councillor Rhydian Vaughan, who has spoken before at meetings provided an account of the sinking of the battleship Bismarck on May ...

HMS Hood, the largest warship in the world for 20 years, was dispatched to ambush the colossal German battleship Bismarck in the Denmark Strait. Though Hood was due for a vital armor upgrade that ...

Maddy McAllister works for Queensland Museum as Senior Curator of Maritime Archaeology and is also a Senior Lecturer at James Cook University. She is affiliated with the Advisory Board for Underwater ...

In 1791, the British naval vessel HMS Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef after pursuing the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, staged an uprising against ...

Archaeologists in Colombia have retrieved the first items from the fabled San José galleon, a wreck known as the "Holy Grail of shipwrecks" due to its sheer amount of treasure. The galleon, which sank ...

The team diving in Lake Ontario stumbled upon a completely intact shipwreck — with its masts still standing — that could date back to the early 1800s, giving them insight into an era of Great Lakes ...

At dawn on May 24th, 1941, the Royal Navy’s flagship and symbol of sea power, HMS Hood, met the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the frigid waters of the Denmark Strait.

During an expedition to search for a famed shipwreck, researchers discovered something unexpected: striking geometric patterns on the floor of Antarctica’s western Weddell Sea created by fish. The ...

WHITEFISH TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The location of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is no coincidence. "We do have 200 shipwrecks, approximately, right in this area of Whitefish Bay," said Bruce Lynn. "If we ...

More than 1,000 silver and gold coins collectively valued at about $1 million were recovered from an 18th-century shipwreck off the coast of Florida, a shipwreck salvage company said. The company, ...

Archaeologists in Brunswick County, North Carolina, have discovered four shipwrecks in just two months. One could be La Fortuna, a Spanish ship destroyed in September 1748, during King George’s War.