Custom House Maritime Museum official recently announced the arrival of a Josiah L. Hale model on loan from The Penobscot ...
The Michigan Shipwreck Research Association discovered an intact shipwreck after 138 years A ship that sunk almost 140 years ago was recently discovered “remarkably intact” in Lake Michigan.
Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...
On that day, the ship ran aground and was lost with almost ... a variety frequently used by the Royal Navy in the 19th ...
Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ports at noon. Ships would use the balls to adjust their clocks to the local time. Lightbulbs, a new ...
Captain Peter G. Minch, a millionaire and 19th Century shipping magnate, owned the ship, according to the shipwreck group. During the voyage when it sank, Minch took his family for a late summer ...
Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...