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.

Image taken from a video shared on X by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday, October 19, 2025, showing the attack on a speedboat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea. X: @SecWar The U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the U.S. military carried out another strike on a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing all four people aboard ...

The U.K. and Germany will dispatch P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) in the coming months for a joint surveillance mission to track Russian submarines in the North Atlantic, officials ...

KIRYAT GAT, Israel—On the edge of a small city in southern Israel, a cavernous warehouse is being remade into the headquarters of President Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Two hundred U.S. troops working ...

A woman has died a day after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her and two family members stranded on a remote Massachusetts island that they swam to when their boat went up in flames while anchored in a ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) struck an alleged Tren de Aragua drug boat overnight in the Caribbean Sea, killing six “narco-terrorists,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed Friday morning.