After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle that killed over 180 crew members.

How a professional ship-sinker is about to turn a famous ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef The SS United ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

The missing bow of the USS New Orleans, a US Navy cruiser severely damaged during World War II, has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean.

Lost for more than 80 years, the severed bow of the legendary USS New Orleans—torn away by a torpedo in one of World War II's ...

On a dark night with no moon and heavily overcast skies on Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was one of 11 cruisers and ...

The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled ...

To find the bow of this ship is an opportunity to remember the sacrifice of this valiant crew, even on one of the worst nights in U.S. Navy history.” ...

With that makeshift bow, the ship steamed – in reverse – some 1,800 miles across the Pacific to Australia for sturdier repairs, according to an account from the National World War II Museum in ...

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.

During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...