90-year-old U-boats discovered off British coast
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The wrecks of two German U-boats from World War I have been found off the coast of the Orkney Islands, north of mainland Scotland, one of which carried the German commander who killed the then British secretary of war, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
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MIAMI - An 80-year-old diver spent 18 hours holding on to a floating buoy in the cold, rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean before he was found by a relative Sunday during an exhaustive search off the Florida Keys.
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One of the biggest Viking treasures ever found has been discovered on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunters, the British Museum announced Thursday.
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(Cherbourg, France-AP) Oct. 5, 2004 - Nuclear industry officials say port crews unloaded plutonium from the United States from a British ship on Wednesday morning after it arrived in northwest France.
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Old speedometer painted with radium-based luminous paint discovered at east London site.
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Archaeologists exploring the bottom of the sea off the island of Capri have found the wrecks of three ancient ships that once plied the Mediterranean between Rome and northern African colonies.
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A Canadian submarine which has been drifting off the Irish coast for three days begins the journey back to the UK.
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Traces of plutonium from nuclear tests in Nevada 50 years ago can be traced in British soil, scientists are to reveal.
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A retired Connecticut pilot has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel. George Brunstad, 70, left Dover, England, Saturday morning heading for the French Coast. He finished shortly after midnight, said Mike Oram of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation.
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When the passengers and crew of the British European Airways Viking took off into the skies above London 55 years ago, they could not have known that the fate of the aircraft would become an enduring mystery.
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Investigators have confirmed the discovery of traces of the isotope, polonium 210, in more locations than had previously been suspected.
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Scientist proposes 'Biblical-style flood' A sonar probe of the bed of the English Channel has produced evidence that Britain may have become an island is less than 24 hours, the Daily Telegraph reports.â¦
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A German submarine that was sunk off Norway at the end of World War II will be buried in special sand to protect the coastline from its cargo of toxic mercury, the government announced Tuesday.
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By Panaggio, Leonard  The Museum of Yachting, Newport, Rhode Island, recovered its 1916 Herreshoff Fish Class Sloop Anchovy. The 90-year-old boat broached and sank on 2 September in 50-ft of water southeast of Rose Island in Narragansett Bay.
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They call themselves &quot;sub hunters,&quot;  men and women trained to detect enemy submarines gliding in the  depths of the world&#39;s oceans.
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An unidentified submarine was found in the Japanese waters Wednesday morning, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said. The submarine was spotted in Japan&#39;s territorial waters
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LONDON - A retired Connecticut pilot has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel. George Brunstad, 70, left Dover, England, Saturday morning heading for the French Coast...