(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 ...

“We have realized that a lot of this ship still is preserved. It rests in very shallow water, but despite the fact that people have been salvaging the rig and the guns and so on after the wreckage, a ...

This photo in the Library of Congress shows the “remains of the wooden steamboat Celt wrecked along Bowman’s Jetty,” in Charleston Harbor, according to the SC Marine Researcher Division. The Celt is ...

LONDON, UK — When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists and local historians ...

The shipwreck is considered to be one of the richest in the world and has rested at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea since 1708.

Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering ...