The Azorean Maritime Heritage Society (AMHS) recently hosted its annual Scholarship Dinner to a full house at the Century ...
The narrative about the American Revolutionary War is told almost exclusively in military terms and is, thus, predominantly ...
The barrels of gunpowder were rolled to waiting Bermudian whaleboats and transported to the American ships. Twelve days later half of the powder was delivered to Philadelphia and half to American ...
About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the Civil War ...
About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the Civil ...
It consists of a school of schooners, motorboats, whaleboats and dhows, manned for the most part by farmers and landlubbing natives from the interior who had never seen the sea before the war.
Just as suddenly the winds shifted in mid-August and the ships were forced into the only open water very near the shore. Whaling continued using only the smaller open whaleboats with the men going far ...