USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States faced the daunting challenge of recovering a devastated naval fleet. Dozens of ships were damaged or sunk, forcing engineers, ...