Neil Frye was a 20-year-old mess attendant from Vass, N.C., aboard the USS West Virginia when a Japanese torpedo sank it in ...

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...

When torpedoes struck his battleship, Neil Frye was just 20 years old — a country boy halfway around the world from his tiny hometown of Vass, North Carolina, caught off-guard on an infamous day.

Salvage entrepreneur Hector Bado and his team ... However recovering pieces from the German pocket battleship is no easy task in spite of the fact she rests four miles from the coast and eight ...

The battleship listed about 20 degrees to port while the fires raged, as described in survivors’ accounts, but the crew struggled to prevent flooding and it sank straight down. Salvage crews ...

As crews abandoned the blazing, sinking ships on Battleship Row ... Service “wants to preserve the history of Dec. 7 and the salvage operations immediately to follow the attack,” he said.

so it has suffered really illegal salvage. “Now because this memorial is becoming well known, we’re getting a lot of what would have been deemed as rubbish from the descendants of the families ...

managed this Wednesday evening to recover the range finder of the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee sunk in the River Plate since December 1939. The salvage team headed by experienced Uruguayan ...