Time and Tide Nantucket

Life in Ireland was desperate in the mid nineteenth century.  The Potato Famine of the 1840's brought about a decade of starvation and illness.  More than one million Irish died and another million fled their homeland, emigrating to North America    On the morning of October 22, 1851 the full masted ship British Queen, with 226 immigrants on board, departed Dublin, Ireland bound for New York....

The wreck of the Hazard is one of the more mysterious shipwrecks in Nantucket history.  The ship set sail for Boston from the Delaware Breakwater on February 12th 1881 and made good time up the coast with favorable winds and tide.  However, on the eve of February 13th she encountered a gale and, the following morning, struck the shoals southeast of the island.  What unfolds next is a series of que...

On the night of January, 20th 1892, the three masted schooner, HP Kirkham, encountered a violent winter squall and grounded on the Rose and Crown Shoal approximately 15 miles southeast of Nantucket's Great Point.  The following day, seven lifesavers from the Coskata life saving station, embarked on what is heralded as one of the most dramatic and courageous rescues in the history of the Unite...