Oohh…  Sail steamers, Mama like. A Set of Four Dioramas of Historic Ships Hand Carved and Painted Wood by Joaquim Maristany; 20th century; 15 x 30 x 1-3/4 inches...

  John ‘Jack’ Travers Cornwell, who was just 16, remained at his post on the HMS Chester awaiting orders despite having suffered mortal shrapnel injuries. Initially, Jack was buried in...

NC Wyeth Illustrations for The Ladies Home Journal 1920-31 N. C. Wyeth The Courtship of Miles Standish by Longfellow (1920) The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem...

NC Wyeth Illustrations for The Ladies Home Journal 1920-31 N. C. Wyeth The Courtship of Miles Standish by Longfellow (1920) The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem...

original: Grace Carey; Displaced Person, Digit Books 1961 / Cover art by Rallney Speculi marini, integram cvm borealis, tum orientalis oceani nauigationem; nimirum a Freto Anglicana, in Viburgum et Naruam;...

Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien in 1940 Kriegsmarine Commander of Submarines Karl Dönitz devised a plan to attack Scapa Flow by submarine within days of the outbreak of war. Its goal would...

Carnival offers survivors of doomed cruise Costa Concordia 30% off future cruise; outraged passengers prepare for lawsuit original: Kommissar X / Heft-Reihe Twelfth body found, divers retrieve captain’s papers Divers...

Days of Adventure: New Adventure Comics # 28, July, 1938 – see also – via theticketthatexploded Panoramic Photograph: The United States fleet in Colon Harbor, Atlantic entrance to the Panama...

for November 14, 2011 Atlas containing ye Best Maps of the several parts of the World collected by Phil: Lea who selleth all sorts of Mathematicall Books and Instruments. Creator/Publisher:...

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback‘s Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction, and helped define...

Golden Age Comic Book Stories (original) – via theticketthatexploded HMS Implacable first saw service in the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally a French ship, captured in the last action of...