This image from a remote camera provided by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum shows a cannon, believed to be from the Revolutionary War gunboat "Spitfire", on the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain.

Lake Champlain was the site of several naval battles during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The general consensus had been that it was best to keep shipwrecks in the lake because the cold ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. – More than two decades after it was discovered at the bottom of Lake Champlain, a Revolutionary War gunboat will be raised, preserved and displayed for the public. The Spitfire, a ...

BIKE TOUR BRINGS US JUST OUTSIDE OF VIRGINS IN SEARCH OF SUNKEN TREASURE. THE HISTORY OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN IS REALLY DOCUMENTED IN THE SHIPWRECKS THAT WE FIND ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE. CHRIS SABIN IS ...

Wondering about the historic “Mighty Midget” ship, absent from its Mare Island mooring for several weeks? The World War II vessel, last of an important Navy gunboat fleet, has been in drydock ...

Two centuries after prowling into Hampton Roads, the size and power of the British fleet sent to punish the Chesapeake Bay region during the War of 1812 can be hard to imagine. Just one of the Royal ...

The USS Westfield Exhibit will be dedicated at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2, at the Texas City Museum, 409 6th St. North, Texas City. Throughout the day the museum will be open to the public at no cost ...

The last warship from World War II came home Tuesday to the United States. It was not a proud battleship, not a mighty aircraft carrier. It was the former LCS(L) 102, a gunboat, a ship so small it ...

Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean—ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy ...

A clever trick by a vastly outnumbered Wayne County regiment in the Civil War opened the way for the North to win an important victory that would ultimately make a difference in the war’s outcome. The ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — More than two decades after it was discovered at the bottom of Lake Champlain, a Revolutionary War gunboat will be raised, preserved and displayed for the public. The Spitfire, a ...