Mary Rose Sinks
Mary Rose Sinks (1545)
Several theories are thought to explain how and why Henry VIII’s flag ship sunk at the Battle of Solent.
Recovered in 1982 and is now on display in Portsmouth, UK.
Mary Rose was one of the largest . . .
Frobisher
Sir Martin Frobisher
The advance of science appeared more dramatically in the efforts of adventurous or acquisitive spirits to explore the “great Magnet” (North America) for geographical or commercial purposes. In 1576 . . .
John Paul Jones dies
Naval hero John Paul Jones dies in Paris
On July 18, 1792, the Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones dies in his Paris apartment, where he was still awaiting a commission as the United States consul to Algiers. Commander Jones, remembered . . .
2022 Sandusky Tall Ships Festival
2022 Sandusky Tall Ships Festival (July 1-3, 2022)
Join us on the shores of Lake Erie for Festival of Sail Sandusky 2022. It’s a rare chance to catch a glimpse and even step aboard some of the grandest ships of yore. Draw Events is bringing tall ships . . .
Bristol Renaissance Faire Opens for the Season
Bristol Renaissance Faire Opens for the Season (July 9-10, 2022)
The Bristol Renaissance Faire opens its 2022 season on July 9, 2022. The festival runs summer weekends through September 5, 2022. This Elizabethan-era theme park has been a host to a great number . . .
2022 Cleveland TALL SHIPS® Festival
2022 Cleveland TALL SHIPS® Festival (July 7-10, 2022)
Downtown Cleveland’s Lakefront (just north of FirstEnergy Stadium) 515 Erieside Avenue Cleveland is proud to host the return of the TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® to Cleveland’s waterfront in July of 2022. . . .
Johnny Collins Dies
Johnny Collins Dies (July 6, 2009)
Johnny Collins was one of the signature voices on the maritime music scene since his beginnings in London jazz and folk clubs in 1956. He was a sought-after performer at many folk and maritime festivals. . . .
Mutiny on the Amistad
Mutiny on the Amistad slave ship (July 2, 1839)
Early in the morning of July 2, 1839, Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rise up against their captors, killing two crewmembers and seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them . . .
Zong Slave Ship Trial
Zong slave ship trial June 22, 1783
London: Hearing arguments in the case of the Zong, a slave ship, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in London states that a massacre of enslaved African “was the same as if Horses had been thrown . . .
Henry Hudson Set Adrift
Henry Hudson Set Adrift by mutineers (June 22, 1611)
After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and . . .