When an expedition mapping the scattered wreckage of a Spanish galleon located illegal Mexican coins, they exposed something ...

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, whe ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its "Slavery and ...

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...

Thompson, an Ohio-born research scientist, was hailed as a hero after finding the S.S. Central America and its thousands of ...

Florida's Treasure Coast, where ships sank with an estimated $400 million in gold, silver, jewels. Discover where to find artifacts, and how to visit.

During the early morning hours of October 6, 1941, the SS Thistlegorm sat in the Straits of Gubal in the Northern Red Sea, near the Sinai Peninsula. It was in the wrong place at the wrong time: A pair ...

The IRIS Dena was headed back to Iran from Visakhapatnam, India, where it participated in a multination naval exercise.

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. is pressing Sri Lanka not to repatriate the survivors from an Iranian warship it sank this week or the crew of a second Iranian ship that is in Sri Lankan ...