This is a first since World War II: on Tuesday, an American submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka ...

A diver swims past a railway wagon on the deck of SS Thistlegorm. - Nigel Roddis/Getty Images During the early morning hours of October 6, 1941, the SS Thistlegorm sat in the Straits of Gubal in the ...

The Pentagon has launched one of its largest-ever underwater recovery missions to retrieve American ...

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

The tanker Dixie Arrow was among the ships targeted by German U-boats off North Carolina in WWII. It was hit by a U-boat ...

Eight decades after the Oryoku Maru was sunk by American bombs, specialist divers are returning to retrieve the 250 men still trapped inside They were killed by American bombs. They were held at ...

Sailors on the IRIS Dena sampled Indian food and visited the Taj Mahal before being attacked near Sri Lanka.

The U.S. and Iran are offering sharply conflicting accounts of the March 4 sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena in the ...

U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Clyde C. McMeans, 26, was one of the 103 USS California crewmen killed during attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

"Rising from its watery grave after being sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived torpedoes, bombs, shells, and two atomic blasts." ...

Three-dimensional images and digital illustrations offer a detailed new look at the USS Monitor, an important Civil War ship that sank more than 160 years ago and has since become a reef.

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, ...