As many as three Civil War blockade runners have been located buried on Sullivan’s Island near Fort Moultrie, according to the S.C. The Maritime Research Division. SCIAA image Shipwrecks frequently ...

AN EARLIER work by the Frenchman who would go on to be far more famous for the likes of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days this novella is ...

North Carolina’s coast has been called The Graveyard of the Atlantic thanks to a series of sandbars and currents that have sunk watercrafts over the centuries. Recently, an important wreck—believed to ...

The wreck of a British blockade runner that sank on its maiden voyage while en route to Bermuda during the American Civil War was this week granted protected status in the UK. The paddle steamer Lelia ...

Britain has long been proud of its historically progressive attitude to slavery, frequently pointing to the fact that this country abolished the trade across its territories as early as 1833. But ...

Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that at least three are now buried on land. The fourth ...