Visitors to the Great Bridge Battlefield and Historic Waterways Museum are offered a realistic glimpse of the lives of 18th century sailors, pirates and privateers, courtesy of the Brethren of the … ...

After learning that 18th-century sailors often spent years away from home in cramped ships, most students in a class on Wethersfield’s nautical history decided the seafaring life was not for ...

Skeleton Found by Sea Suspected To Be Sailor Shipwrecked in 18th Century. Published Nov 30, 2022 at 7:19 AM EST Updated Nov 30, 2022 at 6:48 PM EST. By .

In the 18th century, people only had letters, but what they wrote about feels very familiar.” England and France have a long, complicated history of being at war, most notably the Hundred Years ...

The remains of a sailor believed to be from an 18th Century shipwreck are set to be buried in a Cornish town. Cornwall Council said the discovery was made on a cliff above Newtrain Bay in Trevone ...

More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered. They remained unopened for nearly 250 years, until a historian found them in Britain’s archives.

An 18th century sailor could easily survive on the compensation he earned. ... “You didn’t even really have to worry about clothing or food. Your room and board was taken care of.