Pauline's Pirates & Privateers

I've been to Savannah, Georgia once in my life and I found it both charming and beautiful. The people were delightful, even if the weath...

The gun to which boys serving in the Royal Navy were tied or 'married' when being whipped.  On some ships it was superstition that i...

The English word “devil” originated with the Greek word diabolos . This word in Greek did not mean some imp or demon but a slanderer ( dia ...

Out in Boston Harbor there sits a tiny speck of an island that, at first glance, almost appears to be man made. Known from about 1636 as Nix...

Mistress Agnes Cowtie was the kind of business owner that was more typical in her era than our Victorian ancestors would like us to believe....

In 1655 the Dutch East India Company was a thriving commodity. Running ships from Holland around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean...

My current schedule is a little off, Brethren, but I did want to kick off Triple P's third annual Horror on the High Seas week so that w...