Famed century-old ship "Sava's Titanic" emerges amid drought in Europe
The boat was carrying wounded fighters when it hit a German mine in late April 1945, experts say.
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The boat was carrying wounded fighters when it hit a German mine in late April 1945, experts say.
The identification of the remains also resolved a decades-long debate about the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration.
The Lac La Belle was one of the most popular steamers on Lake Michigan. It went down in 1872.
It's one of the most well-known shipwrecks in American history. Today marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, but the legend of the lost freighter lives on.
After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a cargo schooner that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline.
A search of Wisconsin's Fox River led to the discovery of a ship that sank nearly 150 years ago.
The ship had been buried in the sand at the bottom of the lake for decades before storms this winter apparently revealed it.
The fisherman offshore from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, found the wreckage of the J.C. Ames hiring in plain sight.
The Great Lakes mapping effort will pinpoint hundreds of shipwrecks, illuminate topographical features and identify fisheries, a marine scientist said.
Explorers discovered the wreck of the steamship Milwaukee "remarkably intact" after following clues from old newspaper clippings.
A sub that set out to explore the Titanic wreckage vanished in the North Atlantic, prompting a massive search and rescue operation.
OceanGate Expeditions' small Titan submersible set off with 5 people, including 3 paying passengers and, at most, about 96 hours' worth of oxygen on board.
