THE AMERICAN CLIPPER ELECTRIC
The Electric is seen passing the bay of Guanabarra, Rio de Janeiro, with the Sugarloaf Mountain off her starboard bow in1854. She was built in 1853...
ADVENTURES S. Francis Smitheman - Marine Artist
THE EAST INDIAMAN GOTHEBORG IN THE PEARL RIVER, CHINA, JULY 1744
Founded in 1731 the Swedish East India Company was an important influence on the economic life of Sweden, especially in its trade with China. The Go...
MOBY DICK
Many people know of the tale of Captain Ahab's pursuit of the whale Moby Dick from the novel by Herman Melville. Few know that it was based on ...
HMS BOUNTY AT OPAREE BAY
HMS Bounty had been in Matavai Bay since October 1783. Helped by the natives, the crew had been growing breadfruit plants to be taken to the West I...
THE ST PAUL GROUNDED AT CUCKMERE HAVEN BY A FRENCH PRIVATEER IN 1747
The St Paul left London in 1747 with a cargo including £20,000 sterling bound for Virginia USA via Portsmouth. Abreast of Cuckmere Haven, nea...
THE FLYING CLOUD'S BRUSH WITH THE N.B. PALMER IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, JULY 1ST 1852
Of this great American Clipper, Longfellow wrote: She starts - she moves - she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel ...
FROM THE LOG BOOK OF THE FELICITY, WEST INDIAMAN OF TRURO
A half-cask containing the log-book from which these extracts are taken was picked up by the barque Emelia on August 12 1820. "...
THE S.S. GREAT BRITAIN ON ARRIVAL AT HOBSON'S BAY MELBOURNE ON HER FIRST AUSTRALIAN VOYAGE
Seven years after her launch, Great Britain changed owners and was greatly modified and improved by new engines, two funnels, four masts instead of...
THE CUTTY SARK RACING THE THERMOPYLAE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, 1872
On her third voyage in 1872, the Cutty Sark got the long awaited chance to race the Thermopylae home in the same weather and under the same conditio...