The Brazilian Navy has confirmed the location of the sunken warship Vital de Oliveira. The vessel transported troops during ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...

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A shipwreck of more than 80 years was discovered in Brazil, which was later confirmed to be the ship used in World War 2 for transporting goods.As per CNN, hidden near the coast of Rio de Janeiro, the ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

Theodore Preston spent part of his weekend on a dreaded task that rolls around for nearly all adults every few years: getting ...

Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was built by the Electric Launch Company, now known as Elco Motor Yachts, headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was laid down on March 3, 1942, launched on June 20, 1942, ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

The remains of a warship that sank more than 80 years ago turned out to be a World War II vessel. The Brazilian vessel, called Vital de Oliveira, was attacked by a German submarine in 1944.

It was transporting supplies, sailors and soldiers along the Brazilian coast when a German U-boat struck its stern with a torpedo just ... troops overseas in World War II. Throughout the Battle ...