The wreck of a 17th-century Swedish warship — a sister ship ... It was 226 feet (69 meters) long and armed with 64 guns on two decks. Most of them were very heavy cannons that could fire a ...

A trove of treasure has been discovered in the shipwreck of the 17th century Nuestra Señora de ... up to 50,000 people was forced out by Spanish guns, made to dive for pearls off Venezuela ...

Marine archaeologists in Sweden say they have found the sister vessel of a famed 17th century warship that sank ... was otherwise preserved up to a lower gun deck. The fallen sides had gun ports ...

Anna Maria Forsberg, a historian with the Vasa Museum, told The Associated Press that women were not part of the crew in the Swedish navy in the 17th century, but they could ... ballast to ...

Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship ... in 2005 during a search for the remains of the 80-gun English warship HMS Sussex, which was lost in the area ...

1840 - Guns begin to use pin-fire cartridges. 1847 - The telegraph is invented. 1850 - True shotguns in common use. In the second half of the 18th century, musket design branched out. This period ...