The remains of a long-lost WWII warship have been identified after more than 80 years when it was attacked and sunk by Nazis in 1944. The ship was carrying 270 men and 100 were killed in battle.

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 ...

A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman’s net. The Vital de Oliveira ...

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

As part of a scientific expedition to obtain the exact location of the wreck, the navy officially confirmed the brothers’ 14-year-old discovery on January 16 using sonar imaging. Advertisement ...

The navy said in its press statement that the wreck was found “using multi-beam and side-scanning sonar.” Both methods, which deploy fan-like arrays of sound waves to scan the seafloor ...

On January 16, archaeologists sailing aboard a research vessel used multibeam and side-scan sonar to investigate ... Vital de Oliveira in honor of the shipwreck. Both vessels are named after ...