A weathered anti-aircraft cannon, military motorbikes and armoured personnel carriers covered in sediment, and, in between, colourful fish greet us at this wreck. It's the remains of the SS ...

A 500-year-old sunken royal warship has recently unveiled surprising secrets, casting a fresh light on the history of naval warfare and maritime technology of the era. Historical Background of the ...

Shifting sands have exposed more of a centuries-old shipwreck off the UK for the first time. Michael Pitts/History Hit Historic England In November 1703, the wind over the northern Atlantic Ocean took ...

The earliest watercraft : from rafts to Viking ships / Margaret E. Leshikar -- The voyages of Columbus : the search for his ships / Roger C. Smith -- Shipwrecks of the explorers / Donald H. Keith -- ...

Four shipwrecks — including the remains believed to be a 1748 Spanish privateer ship — were recently found at a historical site in North Carolina. A team of archeologists with East Carolina University ...

When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks ...

Breaking News: History Hit's Dan Snow has been given exclusive access to the incredibly well-preserved remains of the 18th-century warship Northumberland. Complete with cannons, muskets and coils of ...

A cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup were among the first objects Colombian scientists recovered from the depths of the Caribbean Sea where the mythical Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 ...

(CNN) — Colombia has recovered gold and bronze coins, a porcelain cup and a cannon from a sunken Spanish warship dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks.” (CNN) — Colombia has recovered gold and bronze ...

A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the ...

(CNN) — Colombia has recovered gold and bronze coins, a porcelain cup and a cannon from a sunken Spanish warship dubbed the “holy grail of shipwrecks.” The artifacts are the first treasures to be ...