Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Was built in Bath, Maine by the G. She was a huge five-masted schooner designed for cargo service, and was christened on April 4, 1919 after G. Had to put in at Lewes, Delaware. He was so ill, that he could not continue on the voyage and left ship. His son also left to attend to his father.

Enroute to Senegal, the Meduse hit a reef off the coast of Africa. The result was one of the great nautical disasters of the century; a 19th century version of the Titanic, without the iceberg. Monday, December 27, 2010. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. She took part in the Napoleonic wars. And in raids in the. In 1811, she was sent off to. On the September 2, they arrived at. Tailed by the 32-gun frigate.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The Briggs family of Massachusetts. Spent most of his life at sea and was an experienced, hardy and able seaman. Because of his fairness and ability, he was respected by those who served under him. And in 1862 became master of the three-masted schooner. When he took command of the barque.

Friday, November 19, 2010. On Thanksgiving Saturday, November 26, 1898, the passenger steamship. None of the 192 passengers and crew survived this massive storm . Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Vessels Lost or Damaged in the Portland Gale.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010. The Sinking of the Steamship Arctic Cost Hundreds of Lives in 1854. Eighty Women and Children Aboard SS Arctic Perished. The sinking of the steamship. In 1854 stunned the public on both sides of the Atlantic, as the loss of 350 lives was staggering for the time. And what made the disaster a shocking outrage was that not a single woman or child aboard the ship survived. Background of the Steamship Arctic. The businessman behind the new company, Edw.

The Essex is the only vessel in history known to be attacked and sunk by a whale. Saturday, January 15, 2011. History of the Whaleship Essex. In July 1819, the. Over the course of four voyages her previous captain, Daniel Russell. Had been successful enough to be given command of the. At 20 years of age, the.

Monday, June 4, 2012. Thy wrecks are all they deed, nor doth remain. When for a moment, like a drop of rain,. He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,. Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

Sunday, November 14, 2010. The Storm of November 1842.

Thursday, April 19, 2012. Though we know a great deal about sailing ships of the 1840s, we know little about the. No pictures of it survive, nor are there any descriptions of its rigging. Was it a brig, a barqe or a brigantine? Likewise, we have no images of the survivors or the drowned, no portraits of the captain or his crew. Unfortunately, when she sank, illustrated newspapers were still a decade away.