Vintage Sloop Recovered
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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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By CRAIG BROWN  AIR and sea rescuers were searching for a missing teenage canoeist last night after his craft was found washed up on a beach on the Isle of Lewis.
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A deck log from a ship that searched for bodies after the Titanic sank sold for more than $100,000 as part of a Christie's auction Thursday of memorabilia from the doomed oceanliner.
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BELMONT, North Carolina - Miss your chance to buy some water from a cup once used by Elvis Presley? Don't be disappointed - now you can bid on a chance to see, but not own, the cup that held the water.
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By Mike Dougherty, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun. 22--thingsthatwere.blogspot.com   I love old stuff, and this blog has scads of pix of old stuff that once was. Some of it is still around. Lots of it isn't or is in a serious state of disrepair. Pretty cool stuff. Check it out.
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Underwater archaeologists have found another cannon from the wreckage of what they believe was the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
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Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago.
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After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.
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The genetics pioneer sails the Sorcerer II, a 95-foot, 10-year-old sloop loaded with luxuries and scientific equipment. It's valued at over $5 million.
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Custom-built software from Applied Science Associates is being used by a research team trying to find the remains of John Paul Jones' ship, the Bonhomme Richard, which sank in 1779.
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Lifeboat crews saved the lives of three people after a pleasure boat went down off Whitby.   The former fishing vessel Iled'yeu hit motor tanker Dutch Progress four miles off the town soon after 10pm last night.   It quickly took in water from a damaged bough and began to sink.
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A Royal Navy frigate whose captain was relieved of his command returns to its home port in Plymouth.
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The blue whale, once on the verge of extinction, is making a comeback.
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A US treasure-hunting boat is allowed to leave Algeciras port in Spain following a dispute with authorities.
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A search is under way for a man who is thought to have been swept overboard in the North Sea.
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Digital models of an historic ship are created as part of its restoration to test if it will survive the process.
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TAMPA -- The Spanish government has filed claims in federal court over a shipwreck that a Florida firm found laden with Colonial-era treasure, an attorney said yesterday.