All posts tagged "Shipwreck"
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1.2K1MaineThe Raging Blizzard That Killed Mr. and Mrs. Tarbox in 1819
Samuel Tarbox and his wife are still remembered nearly 200 years after they froze to death in a fearful March snowstorm. To...
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3.9K5MassachusettsStephen Hopkins, Jamestown Settler, Mayflower Pilgrim – and Shakespeare Character?
Stephen Hopkins settled both Jamestown and Plymouth, and many believe Shakespeare based a character on him. Though he wasn’t among the first...
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1.6K3MassachusettsNew England’s Beloved Shipwreck, the Schooner Nancy
Life handed a shipwreck to the owner of the schooner Nancy during a storm off the New England coast. So he made...
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6.7K4MaineUSS Squalus Rescue: World Awaits News of Sailors’ Fate
In 1939, the greatest submarine rescue in history was undertaken off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. This is the second part of...
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7.3K2MassachusettsMargaret Fuller Dies in a Shipwreck While People Watch
Margaret Fuller, who spent her life protesting injustice, died at the age of 40 in a shipwreck off New York Harbor while...
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3.4K3ConnecticutThe Lusitania Survivor Who Founded Hill-Stead Museum
Lusitania survivor Theodate Pope was given up for dead when rescuers pulled her inert body from the Irish Sea with boat hooks....
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4.9K2MassachusettsMr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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2.4K1MassachusettsTiny Militia Captures Crew of Huge British Warship HMS Somerset
In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and...
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14.7K6Rhode IslandThe Day Rhode Island Hanged 26 Pirates
On July 19, 1723, officials in Newport, R.I., hanged 26 sailors for piracy before a jubilant crowd. They comprised half of all...
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8.0K27ConnecticutMiss Porter’s School Finishes Socialites, Scholars and a First Lady
An educational reformer founded Miss Porter’s Finishing School for Young Ladies in 1843. She could have had no idea of the fame,...