In the late 1600s, the Swedish navy scuttled the three aging warships to help control access to a narrow sea channel approaching Stockholm. A complex network of channels and straits weaves among the ...

Shifting sands have uncovered the hull of a 17th-century English warship off the Kent coast. The Northumberland shipwreck is said to potentially be one of the best preserved wooden ships, and was ...

Shifting sands have exposed more of a centuries-old shipwreck off the UK for the first time. Michael Pitts/History Hit Historic England In November 1703, the wind over the northern Atlantic Ocean took ...

For a brief, blazing moment in the age of sail, a single wooden warship could define what “fast” meant on the open ocean, turning raw timber and canvas into a kind of national calling card. The story ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists are facing a “race against time” to explore the wreck of an English warship that sank in a huge storm more than 300 years ago. Northumberland was a 70-gun warship built in ...