Illustration: Elena Scotti (Gizmodo), Photo: Getty Images, AP, Shutterstock On May 25, 1798, the HMS DeBraak was entering Delaware Bay when a squall struck without warning. The British ship that originally belonged to the [...]
Jim brings his six-decades-long experience to another public presentation about the world of shipwrecks. For more event details, and to register, please visit the BUEI website.
Researchers stored 17th-century foodstuffs aboard the 19th-century tall ship Elissa as part of an investigation into how well food preservation worked during the age of discovery. Photo by age fotostock/Alamy Stock Photo In [...]
Marvin Barrash, of Kent Island, shows the displays he made with photos of the lost USS Cyclops. The Navy ship vanished 100 years ago with 309 men aboard, and it remains the greatest loss [...]
Wreckage found near Mobile, Alabama, turns out not to be the Clotilda, the last American slave ship. The search for the last American slave ship continues. A wreck found on Alabama's Gulf [...]
This Jan. 2, 2018, file photo shows the remains of a ship that could be the Clotilda, the last slave ship documented to have delivered captive Africans to the United States. The Clotilda was [...]
Dave Conlin and Jim Delgado, who together led the last mission to explore the Titanic, led the team of archaeologists that determined the wreck found in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta was not the [...]
This aerial photo taken on Jan. 2, 2018, in Mobile County, Alabama, shows the remains of a ship that could be the Clotilda, the last slave ship documented to have delivered captive Africans to [...]
The Hunley in preservation tank. Credit: Friends of the Hunley Researchers say they’ve solved one of the most enduring mysteries of the American Civil War: what caused the puzzling demise of the H.L. Hunley, [...]
Cartographers are still putting the finishing touches on the new map, which will appear in the visitors’ center at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. MAP COURTESY SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK [...]
