The Montana-class represents the U.S. Navy battleships that never sailed. Authorized in 1940 as America’s answer to Japan’s ...

The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

If you like warships then you will have a fondness for battleships. It’s impossible not to. Their size, their lines, their ...

Capt. Mike Perna, an advisory board member for the 1715 Fleet Society, found the disc in eight feet of water at a wreck site known as the “Cabin Wreck.” The large ship is believed to be the wreck of ...

The world’s largest ship set sail on Sunday, making its debut out of Port Canaveral, Florida. Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas has 20 decks and eight neighborhoods with seven pools. It accommodates ...

The Battleship North Carolina has a Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher plane on display that was not originally part of the ship's WWII service. This Kingfisher crashed in Canada in 1942, was recovered in 1964, ...

A ship that went missing in Lake Michigan 138 years ago was discovered by a rafter and shipwreck hunter from Door County, located on the peninsula of northeast Wisconsin. In mid-July, Matt Olson, ...

A Door County rafter and shipwreck hunter has discovered a ship that went missing in Lake Michigan 138 years ago. In mid-July, Matt Olson, owner of Door County Adventure Rafting, said he was clicking ...

With its low-lying topography, treacherous shoals, and sudden storms, the island of Sanday off the north coast of Scotland is a perilous place for passing ships. From 1480 through 1973, Sanday claimed ...

When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists and local historians to uncover ...