Ships

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.