Miscellaneous Topics
Maritime History is a vast topic and has inspired people in many ways. Click on the links below to read more about ship design, knot tying, ancient lighthouses, and the "Nantucket Camel."

• America's Cup Race [Sea History 116: page 32]

• Astrolabe [Sea History 112: page 22]

• Boatbuilding [Sea History 105: page 24]

• Canal locks [Sea History 111: page 28]

• Codebreaking (WWI) [Sea History 106: page 26]

• Davy Jones's Locker [Sea History 122: page 39] "Davy Jones's Locker vs. Fiddler's Green"

• Fiddlers Green [Sea History 122: page 39] "Davy Jones's Locker vs. Fiddler's Green"

• "Fiddler's Green" song by John Conolly" [Sea History 122: page 39]

• Food on board ships in the age of sail [Sea History 119: page 23] "Hot from the Galley"

• Food: "Hermits" (cookies) [Sea History 119: page 23] "Hot from the Gallery"

• Fresnel lens [Sea History 113: page 21]

• Great Lakes [Sea History 113: page 22]

• Great Lakes [Sea History 121: page 35] Great Lakes Ghost Ship: the Cornelia B. Windiate"

• Hard Tack [Sea History 119: page 23] "Hot from the Gallery"

• Hybrid-Powered Boat [Sea History 108: page 22]

• Knot Tying [Sea History 109: page 21]

• Nautical Terms: origins of nautical terms [Sea History 116: page 33]

• Lighthouse at Alexandria [Sea History 113: page 20]

• Lighthouses [Sea History 113: page 20]

• Lighthouses [Sea History 113: page 21]

• Lloyds of London [Sea History 107: page 28]

• Maps [Sea History 104: page 37]

• "Nantucket camel" [Sea History 108: page 23]

• Nautical Terms: "Knowing the Ropes" [Sea History 121: page 37]

• Nautical Terms: nautical origins of everyday terms [Sea History 117: page 31]

• Nautical Terms [Sea History 119: page 23] "Everyday Speech from Sailors of Yesterday"

• Nautical Terms: origins of nautical terms [Sea History 116: page 33]

• Navigation (celestial) [Sea History 120: page 23] "Navigating by the Stars"

• Navigation [Sea History 112: page 22]

• North Pole expedition [Sea History 117: page 30]

• "Old Ironsides" (poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes) [Sea History 120: page 22]

• Pitcairn Island [Sea History 104: page 37]

• Sail-powered Railroad [Sea History 108: page 22]

• Sails: Getting to Windward [Sea History 118: page 33]

• "Sea Fever" (poem by John Masefield) [Sea History 111: page 26]

• Shipbuilding, woods used for [Sea History 119: page 22] "Trees for Wooden Ships"

• Ship Design [Sea History 122: page 38] "How Ships are Designed"

• U.S. Lighthouse Service [Sea History 113: page 20]

• Walk-on-Water contest [Sea History 105: page 25]

• Wood used in shipbuilding [Sea History 119: page 22] "Trees for Wooden Ships"