But what many people don't realize is that modern submarines have their origins in designs dating from the earliest years of the American Civil War. The world's first successful submarine attack ...

Workers digging at Manhattan's World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat ...

The 36-foot boat carried U.S. troops during the invasion of Sicily and the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, officials said. How it ended up in Lake Shasta is a mystery.