In 1788, while heading out to the whaling ground, it was wrecked in bad weather. All 56 crew members survived.

When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it ...

Scientific analysis and community-led research led to the identification of the Earl of Chatham, which was found last year.

A cargo ship lying at the bottom of the sea off the Belgian coast has been fitted with a new treasure chest: a stash of rare ...

An Italian judge on Monday ordered six police and coastguard officers to stand trial for mishandling operations during a ...

Archaeologists have identified a 1700s shipwreck discovered on a Scottish island. Experts believe the wreck, found on the island of Sanday in Orkney last year, is likely the Earl of Chatham, a former ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the "Nossa Senhora do Cabo," and made off with many of the treasures the ship ...

The wreck now lies on the floor of a small harbor on the island of Nosy Boraha off the northeast coast of Madagascar, which ...

"Sometimes we find something new that we were not looking for," the Wisconsin Historical Society said about the discovery.

Researchers surveying a Wisconsin river unexpectedly uncovered a 145-year-old shipwreck, according to officials.

In 1880, the L.W. Crane caught fire and sank to the bottom of the river. That's what the research team thinks it saw during its survey this spring.