Our oceans and seas have claimed countless vessels since the earliest days of seafaring. Most shipwrecks have been long-forgotten, perhaps never having received much notice to begin with, but other ...

There are few things more fascinating, tragic and eerie than a shipwreck, whether it's a warship lost in battle, a deliberately-sunk divers' wreck or a steamer sent to the bottom by waves and weather.

The 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic changed the field of maritime archaeology forever, proving that even deeply sunken ships could be found with the help of advanced technology in the form of ...

The Northerner sank in 1868 and has been resting upright on the lakebed of Lake Michigan off the coast of Wisconsin ever since. Hibbard Inshore / NOAA On November 28, 1868, an American schooner called ...

DULUTH — Tanner Johnson has studied a lot of shipwrecks. In terms of popular fascination, though, few shipwrecks compare to the foundering of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a 1975 Lake Superior storm, with ...