All posts tagged "sailing"
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6.4KBusiness and LaborSix Places Products Were Made
Back in the day, products were made in New England — a lot of products. The early cod fishermen and Yankee traders...
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13.9K2MassachusettsThe Irish Emigrants’ Guide To Surviving the Irish Famine Ships
From 1845 to 1855, famine ships brought 2 million Irish emigrants to ports in Boston, New York and Canada. They were fleeing...
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7.8KMassachusettsThe John Rutledge Shipwreck: A Horrifying Ordeal and One Miraculous Survival
Just after midnight on Feb. 20, 1856, the first mate of the packet ship John Rutledge began scratching out quick log entries....
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5.5KArts and LeisureSix Places That Appear on the Back of a Quarter
From 1999 through 2008, the 50 State Quarter program released commemorative quarters with unique designs for each state. Half of all Americans...
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8.6K1MaineThe Battle of Margaretta, When Pitchforks Beat the British Navy
The Battle of Margaretta, by today’s standards, was really more of a skirmish: a sailing vessel with four guns attacked by woodsmen...
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6.8K1MassachusettsThe Portland Gale of 1898, and the Cat that Saved a Life
Of all the storms that struck New England over the centuries, only one was named after its victim: The Portland Gale of...
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29.0KMassachusettsDon Pedro, The Last True Pirate To Raid the Atlantic Sea
Don Pedro, the handsome, ruthless Spanish pirate, apparently didn’t get the memo in 1832 that piracy was over in the Atlantic Ocean....
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12.5K1MaineThe Wreck of the Circus Ship, Royal Tar
In 1836, when the steamship Royal Tar launched the first regular service between St. John, New Brunswick, and Portland, Maine, her owners...
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8.9KConnecticutCaptain Gideon Olmsted Fights the American Revolution – For 30 Years
Gideon Olmsted, a Connecticut sea captain, departed Hartford and put to sea in Dec. 1777 with a cargo of horses, onions, tobacco,...
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5.5K5Business and LaborThe Mystery of the Mary Celeste
On Nov. 5, 1872, Benjamin Briggs of Wareham, Mass. piloted the brigantine Mary Celeste to sea loaded with cargo for Genoa. It...
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