University of Minnesota researchers studied the microbial degradation of the USS Cairo, one of the first ironclad and ...

The USS Cairo, a Civil War-era “ironclad” gunboat, was raised from the Mississippi River in 1964—but if its wood decay problem goes unaddressed, it may sink again.

"I continued doing it until I was married and then thought maybe it was childish, so I quit doing it," he acknowledged. But one day Bowers, vice president of information systems for Northwest Iowa ...

As the USS Constellation prepared to engage Fort McHenry for Defender?s Day, museum director Christopher Rowsom said the annual sail-out to the entrance of the harbor can be thrilling. “One of the ...

A confounding act of nature has uncovered one of the nation's most unusual wartime shipwrecks in eastern North Carolina. The Union gunboat USS Picket spent much of the past 163 years buried in mud in ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Inside Curtiss Peterson's no-frills conservation lab lies a jumble of plastic dishpans strewn out on tables like hastily placed hospital stretchers. Thin wires run from electrical ...

It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she ...

This section of image from The Illustrated London shows the USS Picket leading “ships of the Burnside Expedition over the bar at Hatteras Inlet” in January 1862, according to the North Carolina ...