CHARLOTTE – A Wooden Boat Story
The Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, must be a pretty amazing place. In July of 2010, we reviewed Schooner – Building a Wooden Boat on...
View ArticleThe Shipbuilders of Essex
Here is a wonderful 20 minute film made in 1947 about, as the tile suggests, shipbuilding in Essex, Massachusetts. It has the slightly corny Hollywood production values of its time but does a good...
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WWII U-550 Located 70 Miles South of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Crew of U-550 abandoning ship 1944 Yesterday we posted about the possible discovery of a German WWII submarine sunk in the Churchill River in Labrador, Canada. Now we have learned that the German...
View ArticleOn Thanksgiving – A Look at the Mayflower II
In the United States, today is celebrated as Thanksgiving, commermorating a 1621 feast of thanks-giving at the Plymouth colony in present-day Massachusetts. The year before in November of 1620 the...
View ArticleWhaler Charles W. Morgan Sails with Whales off Stellwagen Bank
What a wonderful juxtaposition. The whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, built in 1841, and recently rebuilt by the Mystic Seaport Museum, sailing with humpback whales as they migrate across Stellwagen...
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The Bones of Black Sam Bellamy — Captain of the Whydah?
“Black Sam” Bellamy The Whydah Pirate Museum announced this week, that last year human bones were found near the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The bones were located in...
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Bones From Whydah Gally Shipwreck Not “Black Sam” Bellamy’s, After All
Captain “Black Sam” Bellamy Last February, we posted about human bone fragments found near the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah Gally on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The bones were located close to where a...
View ArticleLowell’s Boat Shop — Oldest Continuously Operated Boat Shop & Still Making...
When Simeon Lowell moved his boat-building business to Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1793, I wonder whether he could have possibly imagined that the boat shop would still be producing boats, dories, and...
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Celebrating Frederick Douglass on Valentine’s Day —“I Will Take to the Water”
Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of both the day and Black History Month, an updated repost about Frederick Douglass. But what does Valentine’s Day have to do with Frederick Douglass? As a slave,...
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Diver Gulped Up Then Spat Out By Humpback Whale Off Cape Cod
A diver from Cape Cod, Massachusetts was gulped up and then spat out by a humpback whale feeding off the coast of Provincetown early Friday morning. The diver, Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, was...
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