The Whitefish Point museum holds the ship's bell, and hosts an annual ceremony at which family members gather to remember the ...

An anchor, basket handles, jars and other artifacts were found among the cargoes at the three sites, the oldest of which ...

In 1788, two ships disappeared in the South Pacific. When they went down, the Boussole and the Astrolabe had been on an ...

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

Each cargo load, despite being discovered in the same port, dated back to a different time period of the Iron Age.

Early speculation is that it may be the Evelyn M. Thompson, a two-masted fishing vessel built in Gloucester and home-ported ...

You’ve heard about the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the brassy, nouveau riche millionaire mine owner’s wife who made it safely off ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

More than 1,000 silver and gold coins, worth over $1 million, were part of the 1715 Fleet recently found off Florida's ...

It was a calm and clear afternoon when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975. The ...

It was a calm and clear afternoon when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975. The ...

The MV Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship turned military transport during World War II, holds the record for the deadliest maritime disaster in history. On January 30, 1945, the vessel was ...