University of Minnesota researchers studied the microbial degradation of the USS Cairo, one of the first ironclad and steam-powered gunboats used in the United States Civil War. Studies of microbial ...

Three executives of a South Korean company, which claimed to have found a sunken Russian treasure ship containing billions of dollars in gold, have been jailed, months after their scam fell apart.

Roughly around 2 a.m. Sept. 15, 1886, a ship known as the F.J. King became a gift to the dark waters of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, after meeting a storm its seams couldn’t withstand. A century later, ...

Citizen scientists discovered a ghost ship that had eluded historians and shipwreck hunters for decades, lying at the bottom of Lake Michigan. "A few of us had to pinch each other," said Brendon ...