Archaeologists have discovered the wreck of the Hōfuku Maru — the final resting place of 1,000 British and Dutch POWs captured in Singapore during World War II.

Marine archaeologists have located the wreck of a Japanese transport vessel off the Philippines, a ship that carried Allied prisoners of war to their deaths during World War II. The discovery adds a ...

Divers have found the wreck of the Hofuku Maru off Luzon in the Philippines. The Japanese freighter sank in 1944 with over ...

After over 80 years, a team of marine archeologists and historians believe that they’ve uncovered a lost piece of World War II history. The remains of the Japanese freighter Hōfuku Maru were spotted ...

A billionaire’s ship designed to find the most famous lost ships of World War II has reemerged as a U.S. Navy survey ship, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Divers solved an 80-year mystery off the Italian coast and found the forgotten resting place of World War II service members. The last physical ...

The R/V Petrel, the maritime brainchild of the late Paul Allen, was purchased by the U.S. Navy in 2022 and rechristened in ...

No injuries have been reported from a large warehouse fire in San Francisco that was still raging Saturday afternoon, hours after erupting, officials said. The blaze at Pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf ...

ST. LOUIS — The low water levels on the Mississippi River have revealed the remains of a World War II ship that was ripped from the St. Louis riverfront during floods two decades ago. The St. Louis ...

The Navy launched 130 of the heavily armed gunboats in 1944 and 1945, as part of a strategy to provide intense, life-saving ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Two miles off the coast of Bari, Italy, something massive sits on the sandy seafloor, 165 feet below the surface. Local divers knew it was there ...