Pauline's Pirates & Privateers

Being about the latitude of Barbados, we met an English frigate, or privateer, who first began to give us chase; but finding himself not to...

Finding David Cordingly's exhaustive biography of Thomas Cochrane was entirely serendipitous for me. I was wandering the stacks on a h...

June 6, 1719: Pirate captain Howell Davis captures an innocuous merchant ship off the west coast of Africa. Aboard her is a gifted naviga...

The word book, which has been around since before books were pages between covers, has some pretty specific meanings at sea. When we say w...

Summer time makes me lazy. I tend not to think in terms of time or date but what needs to get done. Deadlines and dust bunnies are the only ...

I recently had question from another writer whom I admire very much and whose blog you really should follow. CRwM asked me if there was a ...

John Hawkins was born into a respectable merchant family some time in 1532. He was born in the port city of Plymouth in the English county o...