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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 ...

The historic fishing schooner the Lettie G. Howard arrived at the Erie Maritime Museum shortly after 7 p.m. on Sunday. The 125-foot vessel, built in Essex, Massachusetts in 1893 and owned by the South ...

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 ...

“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 ...