Canoe of Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago: The Tami Islanders noted ship-boulders and trades .They carry cargoes of pottery to Moeve Harbor,200 kilometers distant across the open sea. The structure and especially the decoration of the two-masted canoe of the Tami Islanders are essentially simi...

Mary Gidley, an American mother-of-two, took part in the strange "Acali experiment", devised by eminent anthropologist, Dr Santiago Genoves. Five men and six women of several different nationalities set sail on a raft from the Canary Isles heading for Mexico, as an experiment in social beh...

During the 1790s American merchant vessels began to fall prey to Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean, most notably from Algiers. Congress's response was the Naval Act of 1794.[7] The Act provided funds for the construction of six frigates. USS President was a nominally rated 44-gun wooden-hulled, t...

One such extreme clipper was the Red Jacket, designed by Samuel Harte Pook, and built and launched from George Thomas' shipyard at Rockland, Maine on November 2, 1853. She was a large exquisitely handsome clipper of perfect proportions quite pleasing to the eye that some said "had the graceful ...

Leander was a composite built clipper ship. Leander, from the Hero and Leander myth, is a character from Greek myth, and has given his name to clipper. She was designed by Bernard Waymouth, and built in 1867 by J G Lawrie of Glasgow for Joseph Somes. She had a raised quarter deck 42 ft long. The mai...

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on Sunday 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the Umzimvubu River mouth. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552. The Grosv...

Anatol.Sat Jan 15.01.2011.. По Shinobu Мива Мэйдзи стиль рыбацкой лодки с парусом через воды озера Kasumigaura в префектуре Ибараки. Daily Yomiuri Белые паруса вздымаются над рыболовным судном ,контрастируя с голубым небом над озером Kasumigaura в префектуре Ибараки. Большой парус (12м x 20м) исполь...