Easy prey for a U-boat
November 29, 2011
It’s Aug. 14, 1918, and the five-masted Maine-built coasting schooner Dorothy B. Barrett, a vestige of the 19th century, is in her death throes off
It’s Aug. 14, 1918, and the five-masted Maine-built coasting schooner Dorothy B. Barrett, a vestige of the 19th century, is in her death throes off
“Come on, take down your fishin’ pole and meet me at The Fishin’ Hole. I can’t think of a better way to pass the time
When Ernest Hemingway took delivery of his 38-foot sportfishing boat, Pilar, in 1934, its builder, the Wheeler Yacht Co., was at the height of its
“Twas off the Rappahannock’s mouth, About the break of day. We saw with sails all gleaming white, The Pirate Dredgers lay.” The Oyster Wars of
It’s high summer along the Maine coast in 1901, and there’s plenty of activity out on the water. The once-sleepy village of Eden on Mount
A steamer rides at anchor off the Graves ledges in Boston’s outer harbor in 1906. There’s a bustle of activity at the landing to Graves
This 19th century engraving, made for the U.S. government by artist H.W. Elliott, seems at first just an idyllic fishing scene, with a few birds
Three boys in a rowboat – what can one say? It’s just a snapshot, a spur-of-the-moment photograph from 1949 taken by a Long Island, N.Y.,
On Sept. 9, 1923, Capt. E.H. Watson was leading his destroyer division on a run from San Francisco to San Diego. The weather was foggy
A family shows off their catch in the Florida Keys, circa 1951, at the end of a good day of fishing. And the youngster holds
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