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Snow is widely known for his stories of pirates and other nautical subjects; he wrote over forty books and many shorter publications. In all, he was the author of more than 100 publications, mainly about New England coastal history. [4] Mr. Snow was also a major chronicler of New England maritime history.
Until the advent of air transport and the creation of the Channel Tunnel, marine transport was the only way of reaching the rest of Europe from England and for this reason, maritime trade and naval power have always had great importance. Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707, the maritime history of the British Isles was largely dominated by England.
The Boston Marine Museum (1909-1947) in Boston, Massachusetts, specialized in maritime history. Its collections were displayed in the Old State House in rooms borrowed from the Bostonian Society . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among the objects in the museum were figureheads ; model ships ; "whaling implements, ... prints and pictures;" [ 3 ] manuscripts; [ nb 1 ...
A map of Boston near the end of the colonial period: the coastline was dotted with shipyards. Shipbuilding in the American colonies was the development of the shipbuilding industry in North America (modern Canada, the United States, and Bermuda), from British colonization to American independence.
America and The Sea: A Maritime History by Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler Jr., John B. Hattendorf, Edward W. Sloan, Jeffrey J. Safford, and Andrew German, (1998) Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754–1763 (2005) America and The Sea: Treasures from the collection of Mystic Seaport (co-author ...
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A History of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Boston: Special Commission on Revision of the Constitution, 1963. The Two Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. The Journals and other Documents Relating to the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Edited and Translated by Samuel Eliot Morison with illustrations by Lima de ...
Samuel Eliot Morison (1921), The maritime history of Massachusetts, 1783-1860, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OL 7243372M; Last tribute paid to 176 lost on ship: kin of those on the Portland in 1898 cast flowers from India Wharf in Boston. New York Times. Nov 27, 1948. p. 28. 5-Alarm Fire Sweeps Boston's Historic India Wharf. New York Times.