Category: Life at Sea

From the Desk of a Marine

Love’s Labors Lost

The Face (and Stuff) of John Lord

All That Glitters: The U.S. Navy Uniform Regulations of 1802

Rehearsal Aboard Old Ironsides

Some Notes on Navy Biscuit

A Letter for Father’s Day

The cost of dying in the Federal Navy

A Veteran’s Story

Water, water, everywhere

A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad four days

A Gun by Any Other Name

All the Comforts of Home

Freedom by Positive Proof: Two Tales of Sailors in the Old South

Hot Stuff: Chocolate and the U.S. Navy

Slip Shod: The Truth about Early Navy Shoes

Head Lines

Deck the Decks

First Fire Engines

Pea Jackets

Ensign of the Times

Boy, oh, Boys

Get Thee to the Coal Hole

Perils of the Sea

Suck it in! Purser Thomas Chew’s Corset

A Glorious Fourth

Affectionate Son: A Sailor’s Letter to his Parents

Capsizing the Grog Tub: Busting a Favorite Myth

Winslow Lewis’ Illuminating Idea

First Fashion