Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica ~humanities.history Article 1035 words 18 votes
UN's culture agency adds Nordic clinker boats to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ~humanities.history Article 638 words 4 votes
An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery ~humanities.history Article 4266 words 10 votes
Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago ~humanities.history Link 7 votes
Tolerance by Accident, Trust by Design ~humanities.history Article 1964 words, published Oct 21 2021 3 votes
Replica 18th century ship Götheborg of Sweden plans to re-sail the trading route from Sweden to China ~humanities.history Article 586 words 9 votes
Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!" ~humanities.history Video 7:46 6 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
A history of Somalia and local piracy: How do pirates exist in the 21st century? ~humanities.history Video 24:03, published Feb 12 2021 3 votes
The tale of a World War II British submarine that shot down an enemy plane with a torpedo ~humanities.history Article 1585 words 7 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 552 words 7 votes
Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine ~humanities.history Article 374 words 12 votes
This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 838 words 5 votes
The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy ~humanities.history Article 1862 words, published Feb 19 2016 11 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
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 ~humanities.history Article 688 words 5 votes
What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective? ~humanities.history Video 4:04, published Jun 22 2020 7 votes
K-Ships vs. U-Boats: Blimps hunting submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic ~humanities.history Article 1882 words 5 votes
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century ~humanities.history Article 181 words 6 votes
What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill ~humanities.history Video 4:58, published Jan 21 2020 7 votes
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates ~humanities.history Article 1065 words, published Jan 5 2009 12 votes
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine ~humanities.history Article 852 words 9 votes
The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank ~humanities.history Article 1924 words 4 votes
A shipwreck off Florida’s coast pits archaeologists against treasure hunters ~humanities.history Article 5962 words 4 votes
US torpedo troubles during World War II ~humanities.history Article 3945 words, published Jun 12 2006 7 votes
Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding ~humanities.history Article 532 words 5 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 5696 words 9 votes
Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway ~humanities.history Article 353 words 7 votes
The history of the Ohio-class guided missile submarine and its future as a drone-carrier platform ~humanities.history Article 8640 words 7 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
How a cargo ship helped win WW2: The Liberty Ship story ~humanities.history Video 7:21, published Nov 15 2017 4 votes
How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac ~humanities.history Article 2163 words, published Oct 18 2019 4 votes
Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident ~humanities.history Article 237 words, published Jul 19 2019 4 votes
The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster ~humanities.history Article 1516 words 5 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
An archaeological fairytale – medieval ships found in the heart of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 542 words 5 votes
Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
The invention that won World War II: Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults ~humanities.history Article 1329 words 6 votes
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw ~humanities.history Article 1822 words 8 votes
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened ~humanities.history Article 608 words 8 votes