Weapons chest and chain mail found in ancient shipwreck off Sweden
The wreck is "partly disintegrated," but some remnants have been "very well preserved."
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The wreck is "partly disintegrated," but some remnants have been "very well preserved."
A book with records of a U.S. Navy destroyer's trips during World War II was found in a piece of furniture far from the now-sunken ship.
The area holds dozens of historically significant vessels that have been scuttled over the decades, including navy ships and secretive submarines.
The marine sanctuary says its "shipwrecks serve as time capsules of our nation's maritime history."
Explorers discovered the wreck of the steamship Milwaukee "remarkably intact" after following clues from old newspaper clippings.
The "holy grail" of shipwrecks has been controversial since it was discovered, because it is both an archaeological and economic treasure.
By the time Japan's coast guard reached the South Korean tanker sending out a distress call, the vessel was completely overturned.
HMS Tyger sank in 1742, and the surviving crew were marooned on an uninhabited island for more than two months.
An underwater archaeological team made the discoveries off the coast of Kasos — using Homer's "Iliad" as a guide.
In July 1904, the steamship SS Nemesis ran into a powerful storm and vanished off Australia, killing all 32 people on board.
The San Jose sank in 1708 while laden with gold, silver and emeralds estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
Intrigue surrounds the vessel which capsized in waters off the Caribbean island, having made no emergency calls and with no sign of any crew.
No one knows why Captain Frederick "Tatey Bug" Burke went down with the Arlington rather than be rescued with the rest of his crew.
A WWII-era shipwreck was found in over 600 feet of water in Lake Superior, about 35 miles north of the state's Keweenaw Peninsula, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced.
Archaeologists and local residents are racing to study and preserve the wreck before it disappears back into the sea.
The exposed remains were found on a cliff in western Prince Edward Island this past weekend, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
In 1848, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were lost in the frigid waters off the coast of Canada. None of the 129 men on board survived.
A record high tide washed away three historic fishing shacks and a century-old shipwreck was exposed by another storm.
The San Jose is believed to hold 11 million gold and silver coins, emeralds and other precious cargo, which could be worth billions of dollars if ever recovered.
Archaeologists are crediting the father-daughter duo with likely finding the remains of a ship that ran aground during the deadliest fire in U.S. history.
Researchers surveying a portion of the Baltic Sea off Lithuania for a renewable energy project discovered the previously unknown shipwreck.
The company with sole rights to explore the centuries-old wreck of the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, a Spanish treasure ship that sunk off the Bahamas, has carefully identified and mapped a huge trail of long-lost artifacts.
New evidence was "critical to the identification of the wreck" of the Endeavour, the Australian National Maritime Museum said.
On Nov. 18, 1906, the SS Dix collided with a much larger steamer called the Jeanie, killing at least 42 passengers.
The wreckage was found in the spring of 2023, according to a news release, but it wasn't until earlier this week that it could be identified as the HMS Thistle.