HMS Victory is thought to have sunk with a fortune in sterling yet to be located Feb. 2, 2009 -- The greatest mystery in British naval history has finally been solved, with the discovery of the final ...

Which battleships sunk in combat throughout the Second World War? We often think of the ground battles of World War 2, the massive campaigns of the sky, and other valiant battle fronts. However, the ...

After Pearl Harbor, the damage seemed permanent and overwhelming. Sunken battleships blocked the harbor and symbolized national defeat. What followed was one of the most ambitious salvage operations ...

In his Jan. 8 letter, Peter McMurran writes, “The U.S. carrier fleet decimated the Japanese fleet, including battleships, at Midway in June 1942.” In the Midway operation, the Japanese lost four ...

A group of researchers from the University of New Hampshire uncovered sunken World War II history. The group recently returned from a 21-day expedition surveying and mapping the ocean floor around the ...