Not all ships sink to the bottom of the sea due to enemy fire, as some are scuttled instead. It was common during WWII, but what does it mean exactly?

A Japanese navy destroyer torpedoed during a crucial Second World War battle has finally been discovered on the Pacific Ocean floor 80 years after it sank. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer ...

SYDNEY (AP) — A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in ...

For nearly 75 years, the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the USS Eagle PE-56, a World War II Navy ship, eluded historians and relatives of the lost sailors. Even its location was unknown.

Explorers on a quest to study a famed wartime shipwreck site have discovered new artifacts from one lost American destroyer. The USS DeHaven, which was sunk during an attack off the Solomon Islands in ...

In November of 1942, the SS City Cargo sailed from Bombay, India, for the United Kingdom. Aboard the ship were soldiers and supplies for the English war effort. Among the cargo was a chest full of ...

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Low water levels on the Mississippi River have exposed the USS Inaugural near downtown St. Louis. The USS Inaugural, a World War II minesweeper, used to be a National Historic ...

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 feet into one of the world’s deepest submarine chasms. The U.S.S. Johnston ...

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 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is teaming up with multiple federal agencies to recover Cairdeas, a 108-foot boat that sank near Bremerton. The Washington Department of Ecology and the Washington Department of ...