On the 14 December 1911, explorer Roald Amundsen and his team planted the Norwegian flag on the snow-covered South Pole. They had beaten the British team, led by Captain Robert Scott, by 33 days. This was the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, where explorers ventured into unknown parts of Antarctica, and many – …
Dennis Wheeler – Geography Department, University of Sunderland – The storm attracted much attention at the time, not only for its severity but also for its effect on shipping around the southern coasts, where the loss of life was measured in thousands and of vessels in hundreds. Yet this, one of the most noted aspects …
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One of the greatest mysteries of its day….The True Story of the Mary Celeste by the Smithsonian Channel. (The Mary Celeste’s Log’s last entry November 25, 1872 at 5 a.m.)
The Peuvian ship Leonida was built by Dobie & Co, Glasgow in 1877. On 23rd November, 1911, Leonida with a cargo of guano was wrecked on the Islas de Chincha, Peru. The Leonida was previously the Forthbank, when owned by Andrew Weir (Bank Line), between 1894-1909. Iron Barque “Forthbank”, ex “Nebo” built in 1877 at …
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Written by Kellie Slappey – With its shallow inlets, North Carolina’s Outer Banks became a haven for many pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The most notable was the Pirate Blackbeard. Blackbeard called Bath, North Carolina, his home and spent his time as a pirate ransacking and pillaging unsuspecting ships off the banks of …
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