Edison Trickett Ed was a well-loved musician in the folk music community. He appeared on over 40 recordings, most of…

No, he was a real historical character, too! In London, Thomas Blood, an Irish adventurer better known as “Captain Blood,”…

Hudson's Bay Company Charter May 2, 1670 - King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson’s…

Drake's attack on Cádiz, 1587 Referred to as the "singeing of the beard" of King Philip II of Spain. In…

Mutiny on the Bounty Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized…

Steamship Sultana On April 27, 1865 the steamship Sultana exploded on the water. This Civil War ship explosion killed more…

Front piece for Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe". Daniel Defoe’s fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is…

John Paul Jones At 8 a.m. on April 23, 1778, John Paul Jones, with 30 volunteers from his ship, the…

Sir Richard Runciman Terry Richard Terry was born in 1864 in Ellington, Northumberland. At the age of 11 he started…

John Paul Jones' USS Ranger Revolutionary War commander John Paul Jones sets out to raid British ships On April 10,…

Joanna Carver Colcord (March 18, 1882 – April 8, 1960) was pioneering social worker, and author. Born at sea, she…

John Harrison's H5 Chronometer Born today, April 3, 1693, John Harrison, the cantankerous Yorkshireman who would go on to invent…

Because it lacked sufficient funds to build a strong navy, the Continental Congress gives privateers permission to attack any and…

Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN (1779-1820) U.S. Navy officer Stephen Decatur, hero of the Barbary Wars, is mortally wounded in a duel…

Mike Kennedy, photo by Charlie Ipcar Southborough -- 1:30pm to 2:20pm Sunday April 21 GB (group participation, beginner friendly)Mike (1946-2023),…

The Battle of Sadras, 16 February 1804 The worldwide implications of the American War for Independence are made clear on…

The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (14 February 1797) was one of the opening battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808),…

Francis Drake’s burial at sea off Portobello – 1883 bronze plaque by Joseph Boehm He died on 28 Jan, 1596…

Spanish explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon, who had commanded the Nina during Christopher Columbus’ first expedition to the New World, reaches…

The seventeen million dollar replica of James Cook's HMS Bark Endeavor sails toward San Diego's skyline. Cook's original vessel was…