USS Conestoga
The officers and crew of USS Conestoga, in San Diego, California in 1921. Lost for 95 years, the tug was discovered in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary off San Francisco. Credit: Naval Historical [...]
USS Independence Discovery
Features on an historic photo of USS Independence CVL 22 are captured in a three-dimensional (3D) low-resolution sonar image of the shipwreck in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The Coda Octopus Echoscope 3D sonar, [...]
Whaling Ships off Alaska Coast
This detail of "Abandonment of the Whalers In The Arctic Ocean September 1871" depicts several of the ships involved in the near-disaster. Wainwright Inlet is in the background. (Ted and Ellie Congdon/Huntington Library) [...]
WWII shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras
Survivors after a German torpedo hit and sank the Chenango in 1942 off the coast of North Carolina. (National Archives) Agency seeks sanctuary for WWII shipwrecks off Cape Hatteras Somewhere off North Carolina’s [...]
Shipwreck Spotting Satellites
Landsat-8 image taken in 2013 of shipwreck sites off the coast of Belgium. Credit: HIGHROC Discovering otherwise undetected shipwrecks scattered throughout the oceans could shed light on previously lost history By Charles Q. Choi [...]
Franklin Expedition
Sonar reveals the mostly intact remains of H.M.S. Erebus, one of two vessels from Sir John Franklin’s expedition that became icebound in 1846. The second ship, H.M.S. Terror, has yet to be found. PHOTOGRAPH BY [...]