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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Spirit Cave Connection

The world’s oldest mummified person is the ancestor of Nevada’s Northern Paiute people

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Howard Goldbaum/allaroundnevada.com
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Here Comes the Sun

On a small Danish island 5,000 years ago, farmers crafted tokens to bring the sun out of the shadows

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Courtesy the National Museum of Denmark
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Myth of the Golden Dragon

Eclectic artifacts from tombs in northeastern China tell the story of a little-known dynasty

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Photograph courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Chaoyang County Museum
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Remote Sanctuary at the Crossroads of Empire

Ancient Bactrians invented distinct ways to worship their gods 2,300 years ago in Tajikistan

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Gunvor Lindström/Excavations supported by the German Research Foundation