Lin’s latest is probably her best as she herself told me. I think she may right. It is her life story at sea – honest, ...

1853: The English barque Colony, sailing from New Orleans to London, ran aground at Coffins Patch Reef with 600 tons of oil cake. The vessel was a total loss, and wreckers had no expectation of saving ...

A solid wood table inlaid with gold, a mirror blurred with silver leaf and a cabinet with a base adorned with precious stones ...

Elizabeth Berry was hanged at Walton Prison in 1887 after murdering her 11-year-old daughter, Edith. Working as a nurse at ...

Based on evidence such as the copper bolts used in the vessel's construction, experts have determined that the remains are likely that of wooden sailing ship from the 19th ... The wreck of the Ulpiano ...

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

On February 15, 1882, the Dunedin left Port Chalmers for London, with New Zealand’s first shipment of frozen meat. The cargo ...

so far as the records from the beginning of the nineteenth century show, was a fragment of a berg sighted by the barque “Dochra ... 45 deg. W., by sailing along the side of a berg determined ...