All posts tagged "schooner"
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4.4KMassachusettsThe Christmas Blizzard of 1909: ‘The Sea Never Gives Up The Living’
More than 50 people died in the Christmas blizzard of 1909, a two-day storm with disastrous effects from Pennsylvania to Canada. The...
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14.7KMaineMaine Statehood: The Mexit From Massachusetts in 1820
The story of Maine statehood is also the story of a province and a people exploited by absentee owners and left defenseless...
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21.8K2MassachusettsHow the Codfish Started the American Revolution
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
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25.0K3New HampshireThe Privateer Liverpool Packet, The Evil Genius of Coastal Trade
The privateers that raided shipping off the New England coast in the War of 1812 were the gladiators of their day. Wealth,...
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7.0K7MassachusettsJoshua James Avenges His Mother’s Death by Saving 1,000 Lives
Growing up in Hull, Mass., Joshua James saw more than his share of shipwrecks. One in particular sent him on a lifelong...
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18.7K11Business and LaborFebruary 1879 : The Deadliest Month for the Gloucester Fishing Fleet
Fishing the Georges Bank has always been a dangerous job taken on by the Gloucester fishing fleet of Cape Ann, Mass., but...
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