The USS Massachusetts, known for its pivotal role in World War II, is now a museum and war memorial in Massachusetts.

History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But before its days of piracy, the ship played a role in the transatlantic slave ...

Even being blown overboard could not stop Cassin Young from saving his ship.

It seems eternal: the Titanic, nestled on the ocean bottom in its watery grave. It holds the secrets of human dreams and ingenuity and jealously guards the remains of both those humans and the ...

On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...

Amelia Withers, left, and Beatrice Rios measure the shore using pencils during a visit to the Mystic Whaler, where students were given the chance to make their own maps of the shoreline. Credit: ...

Sherry Lynn Blackwell, a Las Vegas-based artist, turned her living room into a makeshift museum of her family history. As jazz music from a distant relative played, she went back to the very beginning ...

The tragic story of the RMS Titanic has played out on the big screen, and in musicals, novels, exhibits, documentaries and TV miniseries. Now, it arrives in South Florida as a new immersive experience ...

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...