In July 1945, the USS Indianapolis completed one of the most important deliveries in history, only to meet a tragic end days later. A Japanese submarine attack left the ship’s crew stranded in open ...

A new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin shows that oil is still seeping from the wreck of the USS Arizona, more than 80 years after its sinking at Pearl Harbor. The study focuses on samples ...

The ST Seiner set sail from Connecticut in January 1929. The ship was never seen again — until its wreckage was found off Nantucket.

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in plain sight in a local newspaper clip.

For the first time ever, divers recovered artifacts from the HMS Titanic's sister ship nearly a century after it was lost during World War I. The ship, called the Britannic, sank in the Aegean Sea off ...

BAILEYS HARBOR, WISCONSIN—For decades, shipwreck searchers scoured the depths of Lake Michigan off Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula for the famous wreck of the F.J. King, which sank in a storm in 1886. Its ...

While the discovery is noteworthy on its own, it also underscores that Wisconsin maritime historians are in a golden period of discovery.

BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. -- Brendon Baillod wasn't expecting to find the F.J. King. Sure, the president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA) had researched the old schooner's wreck.

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 ...

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