On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

World War Two has had a vast array of warships on both sides, but one class of ships was faster than the rest and one ship ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

Eclipsed in public memory by its smaller and less capable counterpart, the PBM Mariner was a significant step forward in the world of seaplanes. Being, at its inception, the largest twin-engined ...

While digging through old folders and filing cabinets, Western Canada High School teacher Geneviève Dale happened across an 81-year-old letter mailed by a Canadian Navy sailor during the Second ...

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of Dubrovnik. Ivan Bukelic was working on a water p… ...

After the Kriegsmarine lost several top submariners in 1941, a major operation was launched to rescue Otto Kretschmer, the sole survivor, from a Canadian POW camp. Over the following year, an ...