In late 1941, the British still viewed battleships as the pinnacle of naval power, with HMS Prince of Wales embodying that belief. A modern King George V-class vessel boasting advanced radar, 14-inch ...

Award-winning Civil War historian William Marvel looks at the seeming revival of Confederate military efforts in the first half of 1864, despite devastating reverses incurred during the previous year, ...

Monday, February 17 will mark the 161 st anniversary of the Hunley sinking an enemy warship, the USS Housatonic, becoming the first successful combat submarine. The vessel and her crew of eight ...

Underwater archaeologists preparing to dive on Housatonic shipwreck marked by yellow buoy. SCIAA Photo “‘A long object just on the edge of the water was discovered astern of the ship.

Cleanup on the Housatonic River continues after catastrophic flooding. ... Mike Lynch widow’s superyacht concerns may be reason she survived sinking, says former captain.

Meet the American who is "the father of the modern submarine." The first U.S. and British submarines, the USS Holland and HMS Holland, were the designs of John Philip Holland.

Carpenter Nathaniel Symons created a sinking vessel in 1729 in which he would entertain passersby by ... where it successfully detonated a spar-torpedo against the side of the USS Housatonic.

The Confederate submarine Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in combat, sinking the USS Housatonic in 1864. The invention of self-propelled torpedoes in the late 19th century elevated ...

A 41-mile section of the Housatonic River in Connecticut has received the federal designation of Wild and Scenic. River advocates believe the acknowledgement will lead to better protections for ...

Unlike the sub’s second and third sinking, the divers were able to find the Hunley in the dark waters relatively easily, but the grim job still took them almost a week to complete. Despite another ...