FREEPORT — What type of food would 19th century sailors eat on a journey from Freeport to China? How different was their food from what officers ate? What, if anything, was considered a treat ...

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New legislation would require the Pentagon to find and return the 200-year-old remains of 13 American soldiers from a mass grave in Tripoli.

Though popular in the 18th and 19th century, sailor's valentines fell off with the whaling industry, and the art form disappeared for awhile. It made a resurgence in the 1930s, Goerger said.

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Students at Ramapo College played a crucial role in identifying bones that were found on New Jersey's beaches as those of Captain Henry Goodsell, who died after his ship wrecked in 1844.

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, wrote ...

From the outset of its 1819 voyage, its crew faced difficulties—or, to a superstitious 19th-century sailor, bad omens. On the second day at sea, a squall knocked the ship completely on its side.

Trudging into midwinter, I sometimes find myself counting down the days to spring with the melodrama of a 19th-century sailor making scratches on the wall to mark how long I’ve been at sea. In an ...

It’s the first time that the Blaschka models have been given so much historical context, from 19th-century sailors’ journals and jars of preserved specimen to zoological illustrations that ...

The skeleton of what is believed to be a shipwrecked 18th-century sailor has been uncovered by a beach in Cornwall, southwest England. The human remains were spotted by a member of the public on a ...

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.