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." ...

Eight decades after the Oryoku Maru was sunk by American bombs, specialist divers are returning to retrieve the 250 men still trapped inside.

The Pentagon has launched one of its largest-ever underwater recovery missions to retrieve American ...

In 1942, U.S. Navy salvage crews worked off the Atlantic coast to recover ships lost during the early years of World War II. Using massive floating cranes and coordinated diving teams, these ...

On October 20, 1928, the shoreline of a volcanic crater lake 19 miles (30.58 km) south of Rome began to retreat. Heavy ...

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

The war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran on Saturday has disrupted traffic through the strait, trapping thousands of oil tankers and container ships and pushing shipping charter rates to ...

Two Seattle paintings, often hidden but open for viewing this week, speak astutely, presciently to our political moment – whether you love or hate Donald Trump.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $1 million from the owner of the tug Tagish after the vessel sank in Alaska’s Gastineau Channel and was later removed using fede ...

As naval warfare reemerges as a key strategy in the US war with Iran, World War II museum ships are finding new relevance.

Follow live NBC News coverage and latest updates on the Iran war, as Tehran attacks ships around the Strait of Hormuz, the ...

RICHMOND — Most people involved with the historic ship that currently sits in Richmond’s port seem to agree it should be somewhere else. The nonprofit group that owns it would like to move the SS Red ...