The Hunt for Eagle 56

Season 1

TV-PG
On April 23, 1945, the U.S. Navy warship USS Eagle 56 exploded off the coast of Portland, Maine due to a malfunction of the ship's boilers...or so the official report said. A civilian-led dive expedition attempts to discover the lost wreckage and find out what really happened, uncovering fresh clues, startling eyewitness accounts, and a possible cover-up.
Where to Watch Season 1
3 Episodes
  • Lost to History
    E1
    Lost to HistoryAn unlikely team of citizen-detectives discovers the mangled bow of the Eagle 56: a US warship sunk within sight of American shores during WWII. Lost for 75 years, the remarkable discovery of the wreckage marks the end of one mystery and the beginning of an even larger one: what really happened to this ship?
  • The Mystery Deepens
    E2
    The Mystery DeepensAfter finding the bow of the Eagle 56 at the bottom of the Atlantic, explorers search for the rest of the warship to uncover why it sank.
  • History Rewritten
    E3
    History RewrittenAfter four years and countless dead ends, a team of civilian investigators has found pieces of the sunken Eagle 56, the Holy Grail of New England shipwrecks. They want to reveal their discoveries to both the Navy and the families of the warship's crew, but their case is not yet complete.
 
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