The only two Japanese ships believed to have been sunk directly off the U.S. coastline in World War II have been located by researchers scouring the seafloor off Alaska, according to a release ...

World War II ships that sank near the Ogasawara Islands ... that have been recorded over the past few weeks, bringing up ships sunk over 75 years ago. Apparently the ships were sunk while trying ...

The remains of the first British ship to be sunk in WW2 appear to have been identified on the Atlantic seabed. Shipwreck-hunter David Mearns says sonar data shows the transatlantic passenger liner ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) vessel Darkdale became the first British ship sunk south of the equator during the war when U-68 slammed four torpedoes into her side as she lay at anchor off Jamestown ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...

The USS Cobia sank 16,835 tons of shipping during the war, including a Japanese ship loaded with 28 tanks ... which built 28 submarines during World War II. In 1986, the USS Cobia was designated ...

A poignant project has been launched to try and trace the 24 remaining Scottish families of Italian men killed aboard a war ship sunk during WW2. The Arandora Star was sunk early on July 2 ...

Ukraine said the cost of the sunken Sergei Kotov ship was $65m (£51.2m), adding that it was hit near the Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea from Russia. A video posted on social media appears ...