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.

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

The CSS Neuse is a rare piece of Civil War history – a remarkably intact ironclad ship freed 50 years ago from the Neuse River. Now the state’s archaeologists are going back for more. On Monday ...

A new sternwheeler ship under construction in Salisbury, Md., will offer Civil War theme cruises during its first season in 2012. The Queen of the Mississippi is being constructed by American Cruise ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...