September 1943. Italy had just signed an armistice with the Allies, but the German military wasn’t going to let them go ...

The remains of Svaelget 2 included a covered platform known as a "castle deck" where sailors could hide from the weather.

Within a few minutes of moving down the estuary from Jack London Square, it started looking like something out of Pirates of ...

RFE/RL interviewed Alex Vatanka, director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute in Washington, about possible US ...

Throughout the long Battle of the Atlantic, Allied survival depended on keeping vital supply lines open despite relentless ...

First assembled by Iran in the 2010s, the loose fleet that exclusively ships oil under Western embargo has more than doubled ...

Divers have unearthed the largest cog shipwreck ever discovered in a strait off Denmark, signalling a period of economic development in medieval Europe.

Archaeologists in Denmark say a sunken Viking ship near Copenhagen is the largest boat of its kind ever discovered—and that’s saying something. At nearly 92 feet long, the 600-year-old vessel is also ...

For the past six months, a shipyard in the Belgian city of Ghent has been reading the last rites to what might be the most ...

A new book by author Julian Sancton explores the lengthy quest to find the Spanish galleon—and the political firestorm that ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

Russia has admitted for the first time that a Ukrainian missile sank its prized Black Sea flagship, later deleting the ...