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A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) below sea level off the Philippines, making it the world's deepest shipwreck ever located, an American ...
Wikimedia CommonsThe USS Hornet leaving Hampton Roads in October 1941. The search for the wreckage of the USS Hornet, an American aircraft carrier used during the Tokyo air raid in World War II, has ...
Steel made before World War II is now known as "low-background steel" and is usually found in old shipwrecks, artillery shells and other wartime materiel. This background radiation isn't dangerous ...
The wreck of the Montevideo Maru - a Japanese transport ship sunk 80 years ago by an American submarine during World War II – has finally been found. The Montevideo Maru was carrying 850 ...
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The remains of three military ships from a "forgotten battle" of World War II were recently discovered off a remote Alaskan island. It is the first time that shipwrecks from this particular ...
The USS Edsall, an American warship known for its crew's courageous last stand against Japanese forces during World War II, has been found. The U.S. Navy announced the discovery on Monday.
The team also found the remains of a more recent vessel — a World War II-era ship made of wood that was almost 100 feet long. Near the wrecks, the ministry said researchers also discovered a ...
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency Photo The Chinese dredger suspected of plundering two World War II Royal Navy shipwrecks last year has been detained by Malaysian maritime authorities.
They've been described as "ticking time bombs". Several World War II shipwrecks in Australian waters, holding unknown quantities of oil and chemicals, have been deteriorating ever since they sank ...
Underwater archaeologists have located the wrecks of three military ships involved in Japan's invasion of Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands in World War II — an almost-overlooked conflict ...