On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

Lost for more than 80 years, the severed bow of the legendary USS New Orleans—torn away by a torpedo in one of World War II's fiercest battles—has finally been discovered deep beneath the ...

The long-lost bow of the USS New Orleans was found by researchers resting on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean -- nearly 83 years after it was blown off in a torpedo strike during World War II.

USS New Orleans' bow hasn't been seen since November 1942, during the World War II Battle of Tassafaronga, offshore of Guadalcanal, when a Japanese torpedo slammed into the ship.

(CNN) – The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history.

The company RMS Titanic Inc. has descended to the depths of the Atlantic to verify how the mythical ship is slowly decomposing. It was in 1985 when, by mistake, a joint French-American expedition ...

The Titanic may have survived more than a century at the bottom of the North Atlantic, but a chunk of the ship's iconic bow railing, featured in the movie of the same name, has not, newly released ...

Widely described as being “unsinkable” because of technological innovations, the ship did not have enough lifeboats for all onboard, and more than 1,500 men, women and children lost their ...