The U.S. Navy has added a new boat to its fleet that was once focused on unearthing the past, but will now support the Navy's ...

Stacker compiled research from news sites, wreckage databases, and local diving centers to provide context for a series of striking images of WWI and WWII shipwrecks. – Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein ...

Three World War II shipwrecks off the coast of Malaysia — the final resting place of dozens of seamen — have almost disappeared, local divers say, with the finger pointing at possible scrap metal ...

A Japanese ship was in a convoy steaming through the South China Sea on September 21, 1944, with around 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war crammed in its holds. US warplanes, mistaking the ...

NEW YORK, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A historic underwater expedition in the South Pacific has yielded the final resting place of four WWII shipwrecks and their entombed crews. The discoveries ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2013, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) identified 87 shipwrecks from World Wars I and II within U.S. waters that pose an ...

Marine archaeologists have documented two World War II-era shipwrecks off Alaska’s Attu Island — Japan’s Kotohira Maru and the U.S. SS Dellwood — using sonar, underwater drones, and archival records.

Chuuk Lagoon in Micronesia holds one of the largest collections of WWII shipwrecks on Earth. During Operation Hailstone in 1944, dozens of Japanese ships and aircraft were sunk in the lagoon, creating ...

The sinking of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales. (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images) An illegal Chinese salvage operation seized by Malaysian authorities Sunday is suspected to have looted two iconic World ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A school of grunts on a sunken World War II German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina. Karen Doody/Stocktrek ...