Commodore David Porter sent five Spanish pirates to the Captain-General of Cuba for trial. The outlaws had been wounded in a battle with the U.S. Navy’s anti-piracy squadron off ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

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Creighton faculty and students collaborated with Joslyn Art Museum officials to chronicle German Prince Maximilian's and ...

Contained in the new federal spending law formerly known as the "Big Beautiful Bill" is funding for 17 icebreakers, 21 cutters, more than 40 helicopters and six large patrol airplanes, Coast Guard ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

As the cases of two detained immigrant advocates unfold, their experience illustrates tactics the federal government uses on ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo sank the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific. Its whereabouts were lost to history — until now.

The bow, which fell to a depth of 2,214 feet, had been unaccounted for since Nov. 30, 1942, when a Japanese torpedo detonated the ship’s forward magazines during the Battle of Tassafaronga, the ...

For 150 days in 2017, a rugged red and white former Coast Guard vessel, the Polar Prince, sailed from Toronto to Victoria, ...

Science communicator Dr Niamh Shaw sets off on Monday 7 July on a voyage following that of Leopold McClintock, who was known ...