Search and rescue efforts were under way for the second day Monday after a fishing trawler carrying 14 people on board sank ...

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

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...

It was the only Brazilian military ship to be sunk by enemy forces ... models of the shipwreck, the navy said. Technical dives and remotely operated underwater vehicles may also be used to capture ...

The remnants of a World War II warship that Nazis sunk off the coast of Brazil ... But the vessel was not identified until the Underwater Archaeology Division of the Navy's Historical Heritage ...

the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy this week. The wreck of the Vital de Oliveira was initially ...

Brazilian Navy On July 19, 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Vital de Oliveira, a Brazilian ship that transported troops during World War II. Now, more than 80 years later ...