Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in plain sight in a local newspaper clip.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.

A ghost ship that sank in Lake Michigan almost 140 years ago has finally been discovered by the joint efforts of the ...

After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline.

A fishing boat that sank with 21 aboard in 1929 has been found off the coast of Nantucket. The ST Seiner set sail from New ...

Archaeologists surveying a Wisconsin river believe they unexpectedly stumbled upon a ship that sank in 1880. Researchers with the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Underwater Archeology ...

In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast ...

Archaeologists recently discovered multiple shipwrecks at an area of a Brunswick County historic site at risk due to significant erosion. A team with East Carolina University’s Program in Maritime ...

Oceans have long hidden the remains of ships that never completed their journeys. Many went down with vast amounts of cargo. Some of them were intended for trade, while the rest were looted in war.

While sailing through a heavy blanket of fog, the "Frank D. Barker" went off course and ran into a limestone outcropping in October 1887 ...