Nearly 150 years to the day after it was lost, shipwreck divers discovered the remains of the Lac La Belle, a passenger ...

A search team has discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale more than 150 years ago. The Lac La Belle left Milwaukee in October 1872.

Cranes cannot lift a 9,000-ton warship or a 230-meter hull, so these vessels use a stranger trick, they sink their own deck to let cargo float onboard. This breaks down semi-submersible heavy-lift ...

The U.S. Navy’s shift from sail to steam wasn’t a breakthrough overnight, fuel shortages and logistics quietly reshaped American sea power forever.

New Bedford itself is a city steeped in maritime lore – once the whaling capital of the world and one of America’s wealthiest ports – and Acushnet River Antiques serves as a magnificent repository for ...

Standing on the southern tip of the island at Dondra Head, where the Indian Ocean stretches endlessly in every direction, it is difficult to imagine that beneath those restless blue waves lies one of ...

Lac La Belle carried 53 passengers and crew when it encountered a fierce storm in mid-October 1872. Eight people died.

DARPA and Raytheon have teamed up to tackle one of the growing threats to commercial and logistical shipping: attacks by ...

Hunters recently located the 217-foot steamer that went down in October 1872, after a quest that began almost 60 years ago.

The wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale nearly 150 years ago has been discovered, searchers announced last week, completing a quest that began nearly 60 years ago.

The U.S.'s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing ...