Connecticut’s Maritime History

The New London Ghost Ship & the Oval Office
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! How many…

Maud Maxson Writes Home
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Welcome to our page for young readers. In this…

Edwin Ayer: “My Adventures in Mining and Exploring”
By Teddy Levy (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1896, when…

A “Mystic-Built” Schooner for the Centennial
By Rebecca Bayreuther Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On a…

New Discoveries at Battle Site Essex
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A…

The True Story of Captain Sluman and Sarah Gray
By Alicia Wayland (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On March 22,…

Mystic Seaport’s Charles W. Morgan Sails Again
By Matthew Stackpole (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Though built and launched in New…

Sites Underwater Worth Preserving, Too
By Nicholas F. Bellantoni and David A. Poirier (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy…

Julia Fish Gates: The Life of a Sea Captain’s Wife
By R. Bayreuther Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Letters quoted…

The New London Jibboom Club
By William N. Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All photographs…

An Autobiography in Scrimshaw
By Richard C. Malley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! If you…

re: Collections — Boring Made Easy
By David J. Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! David J.…

Five Connecticuts Defend our Nation
By Mark Albertson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For more than…

The Three Lives of Fort Trumbull
By Johnna Kaplan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The east coast…

Justus Riley and Justice for “Patty”
By Sandra P. Ulbrich (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Connecticut…

Saving Long Island Sound
By Bill Lucey (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue As the Soundkeeper,…

Stonington’s First Family of Lighthouse Keepers
By James Boylan and Betsy Wade (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE!…

Connecticut River Legends
By Stephen Olbrys Gencarella (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut is…

Pleasure Boating on the Connecticut River
By Brenda Milkofsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2018 During the War of 1812 Captain…

Site Lines–Finding “Isabel”
By Nicholas DeLong (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On the night…

The Slaters Go Round the World
by Vivian Zoe (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2011/12 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Grand Tour,…

America’s Tallest Ship
by Tido H. Holtkamp (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This year the…

Two If By Sea: New London’s Harbor Light & Stonington’s Old Lighthouse Museum
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! New London…

Connecticut in the Golden Age of Smuggling
by Thomas M. Truxes (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The quarter…

Fame and Infamy for the Hulls of Derby
by Carolyn Ivanoff (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The War…

Full Steam Ahead: Steamboat Travel in Connecticut
By Brenda Milkofsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Long Island Sound…

The Portuguese in Connecticut: “They Came Here as Fishermen…”
by Fred Calabretta (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Only a couple…

What a Disaster!
by Emma Demar with Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2011 Subscribe/By the Issue!…

Cruising the Thimble Islands
By Alana Joli Abbott (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On a…

Nellie Green: East Haven’s Wildest Irish Rose
By Marshall S. Berdan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All photos…

Electric Boat: Full Speed Into the Nuclear Age
By Barbara Nagy (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., WINTER 2015/16 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mike Toner graduated from…

Round The Horn in Search of Seals and Fortune
By Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On September 2,…

New London’s Indian Mariners
By Jason R. Mancini (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This article…

Connecticut’s Naval Contributions to the Civil War
By William Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Back! Back on…

Site Lines: Fort Decatur
By Daniel Forrest (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The prominence overlooking…

War of 1812: The Mysterious Bluelights
By Steven Slosberg (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue In January 1814,…

War of 1812: The British Raid on Essex
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On a cold…

Why the Sperm Whale is our State Animal
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The sperm…
Our Salty and Seafaring History
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! So often, the…

BACK ISSUES – SPRING 2009
SPRING 2009 VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 2 IN THIS ISSUE: Maritime Connecticut By Sea, the…