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Egan Maritime Institute officials believe the shipwreck fragment found on Low Beach last month could be from the Evelyn M.

Maine Maritime Museum in Bath plans to celebrate the full restoration of the 1906 schooner Mary E, the oldest Bath-built vessel still sailing, by hosting a public recommissioning ceremony as the ...

WHEN I WAS growing up in Gloucester, Mass., we were steeped in local fishing-port legends. In elementary school, a teacher introduced us to “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a poem published in 1842 by ...

"We've had so many great memories, and now I think it's just fitting the vessel starts a new life on her own. That life will be Gloucester." That's from an interview Captain Jim Sharp did back in the ...

“The night (of October 22, 1891) was a wild one,” according to the official report of the tragedy, “and the wind, which had suddenly come out from the northeast, at about 3 p.m. back to the ...