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On this date in 1858, the clipper ship James Baines caught fire while discharging her cargo in Liverpool.
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April 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Generic image of a rocky coastline with breaking surf. Overlaid on the image is a quotation of John Masefield, reading: "Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down."
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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August 24(?), 1790 exerpt from the log of the sloop Dolphin, kept by Capt. Benjamin Paddock, Jr. on a whaling voyage from Nantucket to the Bahamas and down to the West Indies, 1790-91.
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Image of a yellowed and partially stained, left-side page from the ship's logbook. The text is neatly organized in beautiful, handwritten script in black ink, amounting to 32 lines total, which covers all the useable space on the unruled page. A transcription of the script can be found at the following website: https://fromthepage.com/nharl/ships-logs-collection/ms220-log62?page=5
March 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM