In 2005, Peabody Essex Museum curator Dan Finamore got a tip on a carving up for auction. It was a figurehead, one of those often full-length, female forms that decorated the bows of ships between the ...

NEWBURYPORT — Hoping to preserve a piece of the city’s maritime history, Custom House Maritime Museum officials are looking to raise $30,000 by April 17. “The magnificent figurehead of the Daniel I.

NEWBURYPORT — Custom House Maritime Museum officials announced last week they had raised enough money to purchase and preserve the figurehead of the historic Daniel I. Tenney ship. It was only last ...

Figurehead from the SS Terra Nova, the ship that took Captain Scott's ill fated expedition to Antarctica in 1910. On 15th June 1910 a large and excited crowd cheered the 'Terra Nova' as she left ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In midwinter 1847, the North American clipper Cymbelina anchored in a cove on Chile’s north coast. There had ...

Original Figurehead from HMS Scylla, a screw steam corvette which was launched at Sheerness Dockyard in 1856 and part of the 1869 Flying Squadron. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Louisiana survey, 1995. Image on file. JNO Williams INC. New YoRk (On east side of base:) (Top plaque:) IN MEMORIAM/U.S.S.MAINE/DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR/FEBRUARY 15TH ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FROM CARD: "21594-5. #21595: ALASKAN ...