Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh ~humanities.history Video 41:51, published Feb 29 2024 10 votes
Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives ~humanities.history Article 482 words 9 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
Stede Bonnet, the real-life ’gentleman’ pirate who inspired ’Our Flag Means Death’ ~humanities.history Article 852 words, published Nov 11 2023 16 votes
A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC ~humanities.history Article 1424 words 12 votes
A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history ~humanities.history Article 12 124 words, published Aug 22 2023 8 votes
Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul ~humanities.history Article 609 words 16 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
'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
Götheborg of Sweden – The world's largest wooden sailing ship ~humanities.history Video 19:56, published Aug 24 2022 5 votes
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
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
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
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
What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective? ~humanities.history Video 4:04, published Jun 22 2020 7 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
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine ~humanities.history Article 852 words 9 votes
Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976 ~humanities.history Article 542 words 3 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
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
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
In 1989, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with the USSR that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world ~humanities.history Article 1139 words 10 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
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
Underwater archaeologists may have discovered the oldest known shipwreck in Lake Erie ~humanities.history Article 1587 words 6 votes
HMB Endeavour found: One of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time solved ~humanities.history Article 497 words 8 votes
The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced in the form of a new book ~humanities.history Article 727 words, published May 3 2018 3 votes