From the bowels of a big steel cylinder the men pulled a delicately curved, glass-smooth part of an airplane wing. Bushy-browed, six-foot-six John Carlton Ward Jr. stood by with a father's ...

But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen ...

The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most ...

Ground-penetrating radar revealed the outlines of ten more mounds, plowed under in the last 150 years—and the ghostly outline of a wooden ship just six inches below the surface of a potato field.

Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a wooden ship. The vessel was preserved by Athenian citizens, who continually replaced its ...

The Wyoming held the distinction of the largest wooden boat of its time, but this wasn't necessarily a good thing. Here's the story behind the ship.

A ship that sunk around 200 years ago, killing hundreds, has been found to be in an "excellent" state of preservation by experts. The vessel, called the Santa María Magdalena, was a wooden ...

A historic shipwreck has been discovered after emerging from beneath a sand dune, according to a recent study. The wreck, which represents the remains of a roughly 90-foot-long vessel, was found ...

Archaeologists uncovered about 300 new objects, including 18 marble statue fragments, a previously undiscovered part of the vessel's hull and the remains of a wooden ship, officials said.

Construction workers excavating a site in Spain discovered the "skeleton" of a medieval cargo ship which dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries.

Daytona Beach Shores, Fla. — Severe beach erosion from two late-season hurricanes has helped uncover what appears to be a wooden ship dating from the 1800s that had been buried under the sand on ...

Severe beach erosion from two late-season hurricanes has helped uncover what appears to be a wooden ship dating from the 1800s.