Not all shipwrecks lie hidden deep beneath the ocean—some can be seen up close, even without diving. From submarines built ...

When thinking about items on a shipwreck, one might imagine a treasure chest full of coins, stacks of gold bars, ship cargo or passengers' personal belongings. But inside some wrecks lie even rarer ...

A confounding act of nature has uncovered one of the nation’s most unusual wartime shipwrecks in eastern North Carolina. The Union gunboat USS Picket spent much of the past 163 years buried in mud in ...

The U.S.S. Selma was made out of a material that most people don't associate with maritime success.

This section of image from The Illustrated London shows the USS Picket leading “ships of the Burnside Expedition over the bar at Hatteras Inlet” in January 1862, according to the North Carolina ...