Learn how recent research has revealed a connection between the port of Liverpool’s Bidston Hill signal station and Norfolk, Virginia in the 18th century.

By October 1861, there were five ironclads under construction in New Orleans, Cerro Gordo, Tennessee, and Memphis. It would be an extreme challenge to place these ironclads in the water as effective warships with limited industrial infrastructure. It was all about the questions of time, iron, workers, and engines!

The water connects all of us, even the aviators! Learn about a barnstorming aviator’s maritime connection.

Train accident, Laurel Delaware 1904. Locomotive plunges into river crushing schooner "Golden Gate."