The Story of YP-389

Features May 1, 2011

April 13, 2011

The fishing trawler Cohasset was refitted, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for service in the Atlantic, including patrols in U-boat infested waters off North Carolina.

YP-389 and the Battle of the Atlantic

The Sinking of the HMAS Sydney

The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the Mediterranean, the Sydney encountered a ship claiming to be a Dutch freighter—actually the HSK Kormoran, a German raider that had menaced merchant ships for months.

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Nineteenth-Century Booze Cruise

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Tomasz Stachura/Baltictech

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Shackleton's Last Try

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Tore Topp/Royal Canadian Geographical Society

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Sunken Cargo

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Setting Sail for Valhalla

Vikings staged elaborate spectacles to usher their rulers into the afterlife

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Museum of the Viking Age, University of Oslo
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Lost City of the Samurai

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles

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Tohan Aerial Photographic Service/AFLO
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A Passion for Fruit

Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more

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© BnF, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens

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Ahmed Emam/© Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities