Quick question. The attached drawing of the Vulture (from our local historical society archives) shows Vulture to be 3 masted. Yet I’ve seen references to Vulture being of the “Swan sloop” class.

I am researching James Montgomery, whose 25 August, 1697 Will (proved 24 December, 1697 in Richmond, County of Surrey, England) referred to him as “James Montgomery, of James River in Nantzimum [a/k/a ...

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This is the extraordinary history of a single ship – a Baltimore clipper. Once she was the Henriqueta, a slave ship; but subsequently she became the Black Joke, a hunter of slave ships. In her former ...

escape helpers, environmental disruptors or repositories of knowledge. One thing is certain: without ships, our world would be different. Because ships move people and goods, ideologies and ...

This episode presents an astonishing and tragic story from the American Civil War with great relevance to the present day. It’s the story of a black boy called David Henry White who comes from ...

This aquatint of an early fifteenth-century fighting ship is taken from a work by the nineteenth-century British artist Charles Henry Seaforth, made in 1812. Seaforth’s work was inspired by the ...