Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Preston was one of hundreds of ships sunk during the Solomon Islands campaign of World War II. Despite losing its bow, the ...

Researchers have discovered a long-lost Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that was sunk in a famous battle of World War II in the South Pacific. American patrol boats sunk the ship Dec. 12, 1942, ...

Find includes 1,200 bars of silver bullion. July 18, 2012— -- An American company has made what is being called the heaviest and deepest recovery of precious metals from a shipwreck. The Tampa, ...

Not all the ships sunk during WWII were forgotten; some gained a second life as iconic dive destinations, including this ship that sank off the Egyptian coast.

A NOAA expedition discovered this woodie vehicle in the wreck of the USS Yorktown. A view of the rear of the woodie. The car first came into view on April 19. It’s located in the aft hangar deck on ...

Swimming amid the shipwrecks of Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon is like diving into a time machine. A ghost fleet of ships and aircraft, once part of a formidable Japanese naval base, dot the floor of the ...