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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Dancing Days of the Maya

In the mountains of Guatemala, murals depict elaborate performances combining Catholic and Indigenous traditions

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Photograph by R. Słaboński
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Let the Games Begin

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses

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© Tolga İldun
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The Many Faces of the Kingdom of Shu

Thousands of fantastical bronzes are beginning to reveal the secrets of a legendary Chinese dynasty

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Courtesy Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
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Ancient DNA Revolution

How the rapidly evolving field of archaeogenetics is unlocking secrets of the past

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