In the early hours of December 13, 1939, the South Atlantic bore witness to one of World War II’s most dramatic naval ...

As rusting war-era ships decay on the seafloor, their toxic cargoes pose an urgent but often overlooked environmental risk.

Time has not been kind to a U.S. Navy armored cruiser that struck a German mine and sunk off the coast of Fire Island during World War I in 1918. "When I first dived it, it was much more intact ...

In a mildly ironic twist—given that the current Emden will serve to protect undersea cables—the WWI light cruiser’s mission was to destroy the British wireless and cable transmission station.

The wreck of a German armoured cruiser that was sunk by the British during the First World War has been found off the coast of the Falkland Islands. SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of Admiral ...

On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, officials said. The ship exploded and sank in fewer than eight minutes ...

On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...

The cruiser fell victim to U-boat ace Otto Weddigen and his submarine U-9 – fêted in their native Germany but notorious in Britain for sinking three Royal Navy cruisers in one hour in September ...

Before divers swam around the remains of the cruiser, no one had seen her since she was torpedoed by a German submarine on October 15 1914 while carrying out a patrol of the North Sea. The wreck was ...

The Edgar -class protected cruiser, the HMS Hawke, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1914 in an attack that killed 524 sailors. Divers found Royal Navy crockery still sitting in the ship’s rooms.