In an annual ritual, Naval Academy plebes must work together to climb a greased obelisk that honors the captain of the SS Central America.
A determined collector brings a steamboat to her museum of Americana—by rail.
She lived only six years, but it was a history-packed career
The 1,200-Mile Race Between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee
Her life preservers weighted with scrap-iron, her lifeboats mere decoration, the excursion steamer General Slocum left New York’s Third Street pier at 9:30 on the morning of June 15,1904, with thirteen-hundred picknickers bound for a Long Island beach. Less than an hour later, she was afire.
A Portfolio of Paintings
Self-taught, the Bard brothers specialized in the painting of gleaming, accurate little steamboats
Teetotaling twin brothers built the most wonderful car of their era, and its day of glory may not be over yet