Pauline's Pirates & Privateers

By the mid-1500s, the city of Cartagena was the jewel in Spain’s New World crown. The city, which would rival Havana in its cosmopolitan spl...

April 3, 1797:  The first U.S. naval signal book using the numeral system was published and put into use by Captain Thomas Truxton, USN. H...

It goes without saying that a change of course will lead to a ship turning. No sailing ship can turn on a dime, mind you, but there are time...

I need to dash to an appointment in fifteen minutes so I’ll keep this short (kind of like the little fella Triple P features today). A fri...

With gusts of snow that bring Arctic isolation to mind swirling outside my window, I feel the compelling need to return to the top of the wo...

Captain Sir John Franklin was a visionary who, in 1845 at the age of 59, left England to cross the Atlantic and finally find the Northwest P...

In 1800 Captain Robert Hall Gower, a marine in the service of the East India Company of Britain, had retired and was prepared to launch a ne...