USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States faced the daunting challenge of recovering a devastated naval fleet. Dozens of ships were damaged or sunk, forcing engineers, ...

On March 25, however, the Navy was reminded that one didn’t need a war to be imperiled by the sea, as F-4 sank with Lt.

One of the unique features of maritime law is the concept of salvage. The basic idea is that when you drop what you’re doing to save someone else’s vessel from peril, you ma ...

The Coast Guard and firefighters from multiple agencies responded March 10 to a massive fire on a scrap metal barge in the lower Delaware River. The blaze near Reedy Island in New Castle County, Del., ...

This outcome, and the manner of it, may well lead to Scottish Cup silverware and push them forward in defence of their Premiership title. Celtic will take on St Mirren, who beat them in the League Cup ...

In 1942, U.S. Navy salvage crews worked off the Atlantic coast to recover ships lost during the early years of World War II. Using massive floating cranes and coordinated diving teams, these ...

Glamox, a leading lighting companies, has secured a contract from Austal USA to supply exterior and interior LED marine lighting for the future USNS James D Fairbanks (T-ATS 13), the latest ...

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano – a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner – discusses the second salvage attempt on MT Sounion, the background on the ...

When the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in the early hours of March 26, 2024, following the allision of the M/V Dali, the impact was immediate and staggering. More than 3,500 feet of steel truss ...