After a few days traveling north, three of the ship's strained boilers exploded in the early hours of April 27, 1865, killing ...

The wrecks of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are protected Royal Navy war graves — yet evidence shows they have been ...

Long considered the "Holy Grail" of WWII U.S. naval aircraft recoveries, a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber may soon be recovered to be placed on display at the new National Museum of the United ...

The numbers associated with the 1942 Japanese attack on Darwin – and beyond – give some measure of the huge extent to which northern Australia was involved in World War II.

In the quiet hills southeast of Rome, beneath Lake Nemi, floated Caligula’s colossal ritual ships, lost for centuries, ...

The annual Sandcastle Contest transforms the beach into a temporary outdoor art gallery, with teams creating elaborate sand ...

Delaware Seashore State Park stretches across 2,825 acres of pristine coastal landscape, positioned like nature’s perfect ...

The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its lifeboats capsized.

A program dubbed "the Lost Navy" is underway to identify the large number of Swedish naval shipwrecks lying on the bottom of ...

When ships sink, they add artificial structures to the seafloor that can quickly become diverse, ecologically important ...

After 57 years of searching, shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn discovered the luxury steamer Lac La Belle that sank in Lake ...

For more than 150 years, the passenger steamer Lac La Belle had been missing in the depths of Lake Michigan. Now, one of the ...