News From the Collections

Like many maritime museums, Mystic Seaport has a fine collection of items brought to America by sea from China. One such piece is a Chinese ...

Shipboard Reading... This plaque pictured here is affixed to the door of what is known as a loan library. Beginning in the mid-19th cent...

The Common Log shown here (accession number 1934.9)was used to measure the distance a ship traveled through the water, thus allowing the cal...

"July 5, 1832. In the morning we got under way, and stood out of the splendid harbour of Rio de Janeiro. In our passage to the Plata, w...

This binnacle stand, from the yacht ATLANTIC, rests on a decorative metal tripod with a stylized lion head at the top of each leg and a do...

With the advent of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, it seems fitting to highlight one of the defenders of Stonington, CT during the Brit...

The G.W. Blunt White Library recently received a journal for the 1889-90 voyage of the CHARLES W. MORGAN out of San Francisco. There has bee...