17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels ~humanities.history Article 454 words, published Feb 18 2026 14 votes
Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog ~humanities.history Article 1348 words, published Dec 30 2025 8 votes
Not all Norwegian folk tales are friendly stories of trolls turning to stone or gnomes stirring porridge – the story of ‘Draugen’ ~books Article 1054 words 12 votes
Radioactive hulk of aircraft carrier USS Independence located off San Francisco coast (2015) ~transport Link 15 votes
The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be ~humanities.history Article 15 votes
Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne ~humanities.history Article 325 words 12 votes
Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection ~humanities.history Article 820 words 8 votes
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's last ship found off Labrador's south coast, says expedition ~humanities.history Article 787 words 20 votes
Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh ~humanities.history Video 41:51, published Feb 29 2024 10 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway ~humanities.history Article 403 words 13 votes
It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships ~humanities.history Article 1046 words 10 votes
US Coast Guard to have a press conference to discuss the apparent debris field of uncertain origin found near the Titanic at 3pm EST ~transport Article 172 words 42 votes
'Hallowed space': Canadian divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship ~humanities.history Article 914 words, published Dec 19 2022 3 votes
The incredible Calypso: Jacques Cousteau's crazy exploration vessel ~humanities.history Video 45:26 7 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa ~humanities.history Article 463 words 7 votes
Two Swedish filmmakers have been found guilty of illegally disturbing the MS Estonia ferry, which sank in 1994 killing 852 people ~tv Article 399 words 6 votes
Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica ~humanities.history Article 1035 words 18 votes
An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery ~humanities.history Article 4266 words 10 votes
For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage ~humanities.history Article 1014 words 10 votes
Two documentary makers have gone on trial in Sweden concerning the illegal exploration of the 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster wreck ~tv Article 542 words 5 votes
Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea ~humanities.history Article 332 words 8 votes
US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission ~transport Article 1379 words 6 votes
The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months ~humanities.history Article 2744 words 32 votes
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine ~humanities.history Article 852 words 9 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa ~humanities.history Article 359 words, published Nov 8 2019 5 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
The first Japanese man in America: A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States ~humanities.history Link 5 votes