On the morning of April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, behemoth of naval engineering and pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sortied on what was essentially a suicidal mission. Operation ...

The Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records for descending to the ...

For the Empire of the Rising Sun, the end was looming large. By April 1945, US forces had relentlessly driven Japan’s ...

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A man is dead following a fiery crash on Florida's Turnpike in southern Palm Beach County on Monday ...

Japan has designated 14 airports and 26 seaports for use by its military and coast guard during a contingency.

Spearhead” content update is coming this November Gaijin Entertainment is pleased to announce that the major content update “Spearhead” for the military action online game War Thunder will be ...

Long-lost Spanish coins worth $1 million were discovered recently during an underwater excavation of a shipwreck. The shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC deployed excavators near ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1715 Treasure Fleet, one of Spain’s famed Plate Fleets, has sat shipwrecked off the coast of Florida for over 300 years. This summer, a certified ...

The simplest way to see the Selma up close is probably to book one of Galveston Historical Foundation's harbor tours aboard the Seagull II, which Brian Leadingham has captained for years. The ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Emblematic of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, it is widely considered the strongest polar ...