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| Nantucket
Lightship rammed and sank in 1934 (Author's collection) |
Boston
Tea Party - 1772 protesting British taxation (Author's collection) |
Gunboat
Philadelphia sank in Lake Champlain (Smithsonian Institution) |
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| Gold
Rush era clippers from Boston and New York (Peabody Essex Museum) |
Clipper
under construction McKay's yard - Boston (Paul Sherman collection) |
Clipper
ship Lightning built in Boston (Author's collection) |
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| New
Bedford waterfront with whale ships & oil casks (New Bedford Whaling Mus.) |
Scrimshaw
- sailor's folk art on ivory or whalebone (Author's collection) |
Artist's
whaling scene a dangerous job (Author's collection) |
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| White
Star Line poster from the 1890s (National Park Service) |
New
Bedford whaleship (New Bedford Whaling Mus.) |
Early
steamship poster (Peabody Essex Museum) |
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| Hull
(MA) lifesaving service ready for action| (Peabody Essex Museum) |
Shipwreck
rescue scene (Mystic Seaport Museum) |
Wiscasset
schooners removed in 1999 (1980 photo by author) |
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| Coastal
steamer - nightboat popular a century ago (South Street Seaport) |
Steamer
Rose Standish Boston to Nantasket Beach (Peabody Essex Museum) |
Launch
of schooner Ruth E. Merrill - 1904 (Bill Carter collection) |
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| Building
the battleship New Jersey at Quincy, MA (Author's collection) |
USS
Constitution - Boston U.S. Navy's oldest ship (National Park Service) |
Whaleship
C. W. Morgan Mystic Seaport, CT (Mystic Seaport Museum) |
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| Rosie
the Riveter women's icon of WW-II (Norman Rockwell Museum) |
Revenue
cutter inspection of 1880s merchant ship (USCG History Website) |
Ship's
figurehead Mystic Seaport, CT (Photo by author) |
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| Morse
Mark
5 helmet made in Boston (Photo by author) |
Surfman
on patrol U.S. Lifesaving Service (Hazegray.org) |
Portland
Line advertisement from 1870s (Author's collection) |