Archaeologists have found hundreds of preserved artefacts within the remnants of the HMS Erebus nearly two centuries after it sank in Arctic Canada. Pistols, sealed bottles of medicine ...

The expedition’s two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England in May 1845 but never reached the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic. The ships were stranded in the Victoria Strait’s ice in ...

Researchers at the Australian National Maritime Museum said they have found evidence that a shipwreck located in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is the remains of the HMS Endeavour, a British Royal ...

Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious is in the midst of NATO Exercise Cold Response, based in the Arctic. Illustrious is the command ship for Major General Ed Davis, Commandant General ...

It is a relic of the darkest chapter in the history of British polar exploration, and a symbol of selfless heroism in the most inhospitable of lands. As Captain Henry Kellett and his men scoured ...

Breakthrough evidence likely reveals the final resting place of the HMS Endeavour. Work has been ongoing at the site since the late ‘90s. The team says that samples taken from the ship show that ...

A new DNA analysis has identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition in Canada more than 175 years ago.