Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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A history of Somalia and local piracy: How do pirates exist in the 21st century?
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A sea story
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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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
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective?
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill
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Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
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Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
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Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster.
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Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway
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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
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How a cargo ship helped win WW2: The Liberty Ship story
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How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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An archaeological fairytale – medieval ships found in the heart of Oslo
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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The spoil of mariners
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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened.
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A sea story
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The White Headhunter: The story of a 19th-century sailor who survived a South Seas heart of darkness
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HMB Endeavour found: One of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time solved
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