The Ashtabula Maritime and Surface Transportation Museum will be hosting its last two programs of its six-part “History on Tap” program in February and March, according to a ...

For example, the World War II tanker E.M. Clark sank on a relatively flat, sandy seabed in 1942 when it was torpedoed by a ...

The KUOW Book Club is embarking on a winter series of book talks in partnership with The Seattle Public Library this month. Our first pick is Coll Thrush's "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the ...

A Victorian-era cargo shipwreck has reappeared from beneath the sands at Island Beach State Park on the New Jersey coastline.

The San José carried eight tons of gold, and even more silver, earmarked to fund Spain’s European wars. That cargo set a ...

Life has a strange way of throwing curveballs that defy logic. Sometimes reality feels stranger than fiction, and the ...

The past has a remarkable habit of refusing to stay in the shadows. Every year, surprise findings and archaeological ...

The schooner "Lawrence N. McKenzie" was transporting a load of oranges from Puerto Rico to New York City when it wrecked on March 21, 1890 ...

Namely, a part of a 143-year-old wooden sea vessel. Last week, Island Beach State Park posted photographs on social media ...

The massive storm left 20 people dead in Michigan, and saw about 100,000 cars abandoned on snow-covered highways across the state.

Four centuries on, scientists are still debating whether the catastrophic flood of 1607 was driven by a storm surge or a ...

New Jersey beachgoers could be forgiven for mistaking a pile of recently spotted debris for washed up driftwood, but the staff at Island Beach State Park say the find is much more notable. According ...