“The flag states of sunken state vessels, such as the US, Germany, Japan and the UK, have stated that their sunken craft are presumed to remain owned by them, unless expressly abandoned.

BENEATH the waters off Kuantan, Pahang, two pieces of World War II (WWII) history – the shipwrecks of British warships HMS ...

The Pacific Theater of World War II was one of the most ferocious naval campaigns in history during which capital ships ...

Bombs from U.S. warplanes tore apart the Kaga and set it on fire, and other Japanese warships eventually scuttled the carrier using torpedoes.

The “Teruzuki” was a Japanese Navy destroyer that sank near the Solomon Islands on December 12, 1942. Eight decades later, researchers have identified the wreckage in the Pacific ...

The USS Laffey (DD-459) sunk in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942. According to the USS Laffey Association, 59 sailors were either killed or lost in the bombing. The Laffey was ...

Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the Petrel to one sunken warship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.