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Maritime fur trade
The maritime fur trade was the late 18th- and early 19th-century exchange of European goods for sea otter pelts on the Northwest Coast, sold in China.
Mayflower
The Mayflower was an English merchant sailing ship that carried 102 passengers from Plymouth, England, to Cape Cod in 1620, producing Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact.
Mutiny on the Bounty
The 1789 mutiny aboard HMS Bounty in the South Pacific, when Fletcher Christian seized the ship and set Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 men adrift.
National Maritime Historical Society
The National Maritime Historical Society is an American nonprofit founded in 1963 to preserve US maritime heritage, headquartered in Peekskill, New York, and publishing Sea History magazine.
Navy Records Society
The Navy Records Society is a British society, founded in 1893, that publishes edited original documents on the history of the Royal Navy in annual volumes.
Newfoundland cod fishery trade
The Newfoundland cod fishery trade was the commercial system, begun in the early 1500s, by which European fishers caught and salted cod off Newfoundland and Labrador.
Niña
The Niña, originally the Santa Clara, was the smallest of the three Spanish caravels Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492, and carried him home in 1493.
Olivier Levasseur
Olivier Levasseur, known as La Buse, was a French pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, remembered for capturing the Portuguese treasure ship Nossa Senhora do Cabo in 1721.
Owen Chase
Owen Chase (1798–1869) was an American whaling captain, first mate of the whaleship Essex when a sperm whale sank it in 1820, and author of its wreck narrative.
Packet trade
The packet trade was the carriage of mail, passengers, and cargo by vessels on fixed schedules, beginning with the Black Ball Line between New York and Liverpool in 1818.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467–c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman and naval commander who commanded the second expedition to India and made the official Portuguese discovery of Brazil in 1500.
Piracy in the Seto Inland Sea
Piracy in the Seto Inland Sea, known in Japanese as kaizoku (海賊), was maritime power over Japan's Inland Sea from the tenth to the late sixteenth century.
Prize money (naval)
Prize money was a payment to naval officers and crew from the court-condemned value of enemy ships and cargo, shaping naval warfare from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
Queen Anne's Revenge
Queen Anne's Revenge was the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard, a French slave ship he captured off Martinique in 1717 and lost at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, in 1718.
Quota System (Royal Navy)
The Quota System was a 1795 British naval recruiting scheme requiring counties and seaports to raise fixed numbers of men for the Royal Navy at local expense.
Republic of Pirates
The Republic of Pirates was a pirate haven based at Nassau in the Bahamas, home to Blackbeard and other captains until the British reconquest of 1718.
Samuel Bellamy
Samuel Bellamy, known as "Black Sam", was an English pirate who robbed 53 ships before dying in the 1717 wreck of his flagship Whydah off Cape Cod.
Santa María (ship)
The Santa María was the flagship and largest of Christopher Columbus's three ships on his 1492 Atlantic voyage, lost on a reef off Hispaniola at Christmas 1492.
Second Fleet (Australia)
The Second Fleet was a 1790 British convict convoy to New South Wales whose three transports became the "death fleet" after 267 convicts died at sea.
Second voyage of HMS Beagle
The second voyage of HMS Beagle was a Royal Navy hydrographic survey that circumnavigated the globe from 1831 to 1836, commanded by Captain Robert FitzRoy and carrying naturalist Charles Darwin.
Slave ship
A slave ship was a merchant vessel converted to carry enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to sale in the Americas, historically known as a Guineaman.
Slave Trade Act 1807
The Slave Trade Act 1807, formally the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, was an act of Parliament abolishing the Atlantic slave trade throughout the British Empire from 1 May 1807.
Stede Bonnet
Stede Bonnet, known as the Gentleman Pirate, was a Barbadian planter who turned pirate in 1717, sailed with Blackbeard, and was hanged at Charleston in 1718.
Thalassocracy
Thalassocracy (Greek thalassokratia, "sea power"; also thalattocracy) is political power based on control of the sea and maritime trade, first applied by Thucydides to Minos of Crete.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is a 2023 book by David Grann reconstructing the wreck of HMS Wager off Patagonia in 1741 and the mutiny, murder, and competing survivor accounts that followed.
Thomas Nickerson
Thomas Nickerson, also known as Thomas Gibson Nickerson, was an American sailor and author, the Essex cabin boy who wrote a firsthand account of the 1820 sinking, published in 1984.
Tongjeyeong
Tongjeyeong (통제영), short for Samdo Sugun Tongjeyeong, was the supreme naval command of the Joseon dynasty, commanding three southern provinces' fleets from 1604 to 1895.
Trade route
A trade route, also called a trading route or caravan route, is a path, by sea or land, along which goods move between distant markets.
Wilkes Expedition
The Wilkes Expedition, formally the United States Exploring Expedition, was a U.S. Navy voyage of 1838 to 1842 commanded by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes that circumnavigated the globe.
Women in piracy
Women in piracy, also known as female pirates, covers women raiders and commanders across history, from Sayyida al-Hurra to Ching Shih, who led history's largest pirate fleet after 1807.