The vessel appears to be the "Swift," a British Royal Navy wooden sailing ship that sank off Sable Island in Canada ...

A canal schooner that sank off Door County in 1886, with its remains very intact, has been added to Wisconsin State Register ...

“Our advanced ... sensor technology gives us a clear, detailed look at the USS Monitor for the first time since 1862 — ...

For a while, it looked like just another anomaly on a sonar screen. The French Navy was surveying the seabed off Ramatuelle, near Saint-Tropez, in early March 2025 when an underwater drone picked up ...

A recent underwater archaeological expedition off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera has yielded the discovery of a small marble decorative fragment. Interest in this piece of stone has been ...

Archaeologists surveying a Wisconsin river believe they unexpectedly stumbled upon a ship that sank in 1880. Researchers with the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Underwater Archeology ...

Although it now serves as a reef for marine life, researchers have always had trouble visiting the wreck to assess the environment and the ironclad itself. The majority of the Monitor rests about 240 ...

History is not always found in grand monuments or famous battlefields. Sometimes it is found in unexpected places. A gravel ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, ...

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 flat oysters. Molluscs have mostly disappeared from the North Sea due to ...

The treasure, discovered by researchers, is thought to be from the Spanish galleon ship San José, which was sunk by British warships in 1708 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.