My Guadalcanal Diary
Unspoken Word -- L.S. Collison This work-in-progress is inspired by the personal wartime service album of Harry M. Collison, Jr. - my father -- [...]
Unspoken Word -- L.S. Collison This work-in-progress is inspired by the personal wartime service album of Harry M. Collison, Jr. - my father -- [...]
Until the twentieth century, with a few notable exceptions, there was little science involved in the practice of medicine. Yet there were some attempts made to save the lives of [...]
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
Beyond Lady Barbara; Women as Portrayed in British Naval Fiction by Linda Collison This is the unedited draft of an article that first appeared in the November 2020 issue of [...]
Navy Wives Aboard British Warships A critique of Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister; The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen Jane Austen was a social realist in portraying everyday life [...]
John Nichol, mariner. I would have liked to have known him. Re-reading his episodic memoir (I first read it at sea on a Pacific voyage - the same waters he [...]
More fiction has been written about naval officers aboard British warships during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, I would guess, than any other single period in history. The protagonist is [...]
Women have always been aboard ship. As passengers, girlfriends, and wives. As sailors, surgeons, nurses, helmsmen, and shipmasters. Women aboard — I got caught up in the history back in [...]
Barbados Bound, the audiobook, performed and produced by Ariana Fraval -- coming soon from Audible.com! I came aboard with the prostitutes the night before the ship set sail… [...]
Iceland's original immigrant song may have been the poems composed by the helmsmen and women of the open rowboats, to aid them in remembering choice fishing spots. The first immigrants [...]