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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Shackleton's Last Try

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Tore Topp/Royal Canadian Geographical Society

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Sunken Cargo

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An Elegant Enigma

The luxurious possessions of a seventeenth-century woman continue to intrigue researchers a decade after they were retrieved from a shipwreck

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Hunting for the Lost Temple of Artemis

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world

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Courtesy Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece
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Java's Megalithic Mountain

Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors

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(Courtesy Lutfi Yondri)
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The Assyrian Renaissance

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals

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(Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project)
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Searching for Lost Cities

From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time

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