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Watch the Only Surviving Footage of the Titanic Before Its Doomed Voyage

Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Watch the Only Surviving Footage of the Titanic Before Its Doomed Voyage

The Quest for the North Pole: A Historical Timeline of Arctic Exploration

The Quest for the North Pole: A Historical Timeline of Arctic Exploration

11 Items From Titanic’s Final Menus

F.G.O. Stuart, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

11 Items From Titanic’s Final Menus

The Unsinkable Violet Jessop

Colored photograph of Violet Jessop, survivor of the Titanic.

The Unsinkable Violet Jessop

10 Things You May Not Know About the "Unsinkable" Titanic

Royal Museums Greenwich, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Little Weesy Coppin, the Ghost That Foretold the Franklin Expedition’s Fate

An 1847 illustration of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus during an earlier Arctic expedition, by James Wilson Carmichael.

Did the Northern Lights Play a Role in the Sinking of the Titanic? A New Paper Says It’s Possible

Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

15 Things You Might Not Have Known About the RMS Titanic

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New Expedition Will Explore the 1898 Shipwreck Known as ‘New England’s Titanic’—And You Can Livestream It

Blood stars and Acadian redfish lurk near plates and a stove from the Portland.

The Orca Boat From Jaws Is Coming Back, This Time to Promote Shark Conservation

The lobster boat Lydia will soon be transformed into the Orca III.

Make Your Own Ship in a Bottle With This LEGO Set

This particular design was based off an idea from a long-time LEGO fan.

More Than 350 Franklin Expedition Artifacts Retrieved from Shipwreck of HMS Erebus

Drone image above the HMS Erebus shipwreck.

A 16th-Century Shipwreck Was Discovered Under the Center of Stockholm

Adam Calaitzis/iStock via Getty Images

A WWII Navy Submarine, Lost for 75 Years, Has Been Discovered Off the Coast of Japan

MR1805/iStock via Getty Images

Swedish Divers Just Discovered Two Shipwrecks That Might Be Related to the Famous Vasa Warship

The Vasa shipwreck displayed in Sweden's Vasa Museum.

A Powerful Storm Dislodged a Cargo Ship That’s Been Stuck on Niagara Falls for 101 Years

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