The vessels sank in a violent hurricane off the coast of Florida in July 1715, when they were traveling from Cuba to Spain with an estimated $400 million worth of coins and jewels from the New World ...

Divers off Florida’s Treasure Coast have uncovered more than 1,000 Spanish coins. The discovery comes from the wreckage of the 1715 fleet, a group of Spanish ships that sank in a hurricane more than ...

In the Bay Area, some federal parks and facilities were closed Wednesday. Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County is closed, as is Alcatraz Island. The Stinson Beach parking lot is closed as well ...

Two brothers from Sheffield, Massachusetts, are on a flotilla of nearly 50 ships headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid supplies for Palestinians.

Though the U.S. military has cutting-edge technology and constantly evolving weapons development, the military also maintains older weapons with proven reliability. These older weapons were introduced ...

After 29 years of service, HMCS Saskatoon, Whitehorse, and Brandon were formally retired at a ceremony at CFB Esquimalt on Monday (Sept. 29). Commissioned in 1996, Kingston-class vessels trained ...

.Lee County has the distinction of being the home of the first Veterans Memorial Reef dedicated to all U.S. veterans using a military ship. On July 2, 2012, the USS Mohawk was towed from Fort Myers ...

The SS El Faro's sinking in 2015 was America's worst maritime disaster in decades, taking 33 lives. Afterward, making ships safer became a key goal.

“The coins, preserved beneath centuries of sand and sea, are part of the vast fortune carried by the fleet, which was transporting New World riches back to Spain when disaster struck on July 31, 1715, ...

A 500-year-old sunken royal warship has recently unveiled surprising secrets, casting a fresh light on the history of naval warfare and maritime technology of the era. Historical Background of the ...

Maeve McGoran, the reporter and host of the podcast "Shipwreck: How a Captain, Company and Culture Sank the SS El Faro" joined WLRN's Danny Rivero on "The Florida Roundup" to discuss the series.

Some terminal operators at China’s Qingdao Port, which handles around one-sixth of the country’s crude intake, will impose new restrictions on old tankers — a move widely seen as targeting vessels ...