Lost ships and lonely seas

“Oh, night and day the ships come in, The ships both great and small, But never one among them brings A word of him at all. From Port o’ Spain and Trinidad, From Rio or Funchal,...

This is the story of a very shabby set of rascals who wrecked and plundered an honest little merchant vessel a hundred years ago and disgraced the profession of piracy. In truth...

Among the countless episodes of disaster at sea, the fate of the French frigate _Medusa_ and her people still possesses a poignant and mournful distinction. Other ships have gon...

In this harassing modern age of a world turned upside down and bedeviled with one more problem after another, fancy turns with fond regret to those lucky sailormen who lingered...

Long before the art of Joseph Conrad created _Lord Jim_ to follow the star of his romantic destiny to the somber, misty coast of Patusan, an American sailor lived and dared amaz...

The veterans of the Revolution of ’76, who had won a war for freedom, were still young men when American sailors continued to be bought and sold as slaves for a few dollars a he...

Of all the stories of blue water there is none so romantic and well remembered as that of the mutineers of the _Bounty_ who sought an Arcadia in the South Seas, and found it on...

When our forefathers were fighting in the Revolution, which was not so very long ago in history, the world was a vastly entertaining place for a man who loved to wander in quest...

Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow! While the battle rages loud and long And the storm...

In Bristowe I left Poll ashore, Well stocked wi’ togs an’ gold, And off I goes to sea for more, A piratin’ so bold. An’ wounded in the arm I got, An’ then a pretty blow; Come ho...

To the modern generation, one of the great adventures of seafaring history is familiar only in an eloquent reference of Robert Louis Stevenson, and few readers, I venture to say...

The story of the man-of-war _Wager_ was by no means finished when young Midshipman Byron rode into London and was welcomed as one risen from the dead. It will be recalled that a...

Within sight of Portsmouth Harbor, no more than a dozen miles off the coast where Maine and New Hampshire meet, lies Boon Island, small and rock-bound, upon which a tall lightho...

To observe what might be called shipwreck on a grand scale, it is necessary to hark back to the days of fleets and convoys under sail, when a hundred or two hundred merchant ves...

Captain George Shelvocke was one of many seamen adventurers unknown to fame who sought a quick and bloody road to fortune by laying violent hands on the golden ingots in the Spa...

_Robinson Crusoe_ recoiling from the discovery of the footprint in the sand is what Stevenson calls one of the epoch-making scenes in all romantic literature, to be compared wit...

Many kinds of ships and men have endured the eternal enmity of the sea, as these true tales have depicted, but there is one episode of disaster which might be called the pattern...