Which battleships sunk in combat throughout the Second World War? We often think of the ground battles of World War 2, the massive campaigns of the sky, and other valiant battle fronts. However, the ...

HMS Victory is thought to have sunk with a fortune in sterling yet to be located Feb. 2, 2009 -- The greatest mystery in British naval history has finally been solved, with the discovery of the final ...

The Russian battleship Oslyabya had a grand legacy. Named for a Russian hero, the vessel was little more than two years old when it went into battle against the Japanese in the Russian Far East. It ...

“December 7th 1941 was a watershed in the lives of nearly everyone in Hawaii,” wrote Wilfred J. “Jasper” Holmes in his memoir, “Double-Edged Secrets.” “Monday dawned on a different world with ...

A group of researchers from the University of New Hampshire uncovered sunken World War II history. The group recently returned from a 21-day expedition surveying and mapping the ocean floor around the ...

A visit to the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor figures to be an emotional experience. The Arizona, which sunk when Japanese forces attacked the U.S. Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, is ...

During the lead-up to the United States' entry into World War II, the U.S. Navy ordered six new battleships that were designed to combat Japan's Kongō-class battleships. Ultimately, only four of the ...

The U.S. Navy plans to remove the aging mooring platforms from USS Arizona’s hull later this year. U.S. Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One take updated measurements of Arizona’s ...

HMS Victory is thought to have sunk with a fortune in sterling yet to be located Feb. 1, 2009 -- TAMPA, Fla. — Florida deep-sea explorers who found $500 million in sunken treasure two years ago say ...