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In a letter responding to the gift, she said that she performed "only the plain duty of a wife." [15] Joshua Patten survived the journey back to New York on the steamer George Law and safely returned to Boston with his wife. There on March 10, less than a month after arriving in port, Mary gave birth to a son whom she named Joshua.
He was released in 1778, and shortly thereafter disappeared while sailing from Boston. [32] 17 December 1779 Thomas Lynch Jr. 30 Caribbean Sea: Thomas Lynch Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. In late 1779, he and his wife Elizabeth set sail to Sint Eustatius in the West Indies. The ship disappeared shortly after ...
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story includes interviews with Reeve’s three children Matthew, Alexandra, 40, and Will, 32, as well as his late wife Dana, who died in 2006 from lung cancer.
After profiting in the creation and sale of substantial holdings known as the "Ice Trust," Morse returned to the realm of shipping in 1901, when he established the Eastern Steamship Company by consolidating the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company, dating from 1834; the Portland Steam Packet Company, organized in 1843; and the International Steamship Company, established in 1859.
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Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours.The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989.
The cruise industry was very different in 1970, catering to an estimated 500,000 passengers. Three decades later that had jumped to five million thanks, say industry experts, in large part to a ...
In early 1611, he was pilot of a 300-ton ship on his first New World voyage, with a three-ship convoy sailing from London to the new settlement of Jamestown in Virginia. Two other ships were in that convoy, and the three ships brought 300 new settlers to Jamestown, going first to the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Nevis. While in Jamestown ...