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 ...

The Pentagon is moving some of its most advanced units and weapons closer to Venezuela as tensions run high between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday maps the buildup in the ...

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 ...

The small island country of Trinidad and Tobago is in middle of an American military buildup. The U.S. has deployed warships and attacked alleged drug boats nearby, leaving residents on edge. Over the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed an aircraft carrier strike group to move to the Caribbean to support President Donald Trump's effort to dismantle "Transnational Criminal Organizations" and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the ...