Students at Ramapo College played a crucial role in identifying bones that were found on New Jersey's beaches as those of ...

A large wood and metal ball used by ships' crews as a visual aid to set their clocks by has been reinstalled at the top of ...

We Who Are Weary” offers a fresh, people-focused perspective on the history of the 19th-century retirement home for mariners.

Life for a 19th-century sailor was hard: Months at sea were accompanied by constant danger and deprivation. To make matters worse, mariners saw the same few people all day, every day, in a ...

According to the paper’s account, the ship left Bridgeport, Connecticut for Philadelphia with around 60 tons of marble ...

A decades-old cold case is solved after bones discovered on the beaches of the Jersey Shore were found to have belonged to a ...

These glowing ocean events have baffled humans for centuries. The “awful grandeur” the nineteenth-century sailor described - which made him think the end was nigh - we now know to be a form of ...

The latest version of the reanalysis includes 25 percent more observations for years prior to 1930, resulting in far more reliable hindcasts, particularly for the 19th century. Every additional ...

This month’s submissions include a best-quality Royal Copenhagen porcelain table service, a 19th-century sailor’s embroidered panel brought home as a souvenir of Japan, and an unusual German ...

Love letters written from a 19th Century sailor to his sweetheart have been given a new lease of life as a song on a country singer's latest release. Folk artist Jacqui McDonald from Kendal ...

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