This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Sailors' Wild Ride Aboard a Crippled Tramp Ship
In New York Public School No 78 a youth recalls schemes by Bill Meek and Tita Wemisg leading to a voyage on a decaying tramp steamer bound for the Horn. Seasickness, brutal deckhands, and a stowaway named Monday turn a naive dream into a harrowing ocean crossing from St Lucia to Florida with mutinous cooks, brutal mates, and a multinational crew aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bill” Meek
Tita
Charlie” Cuger
Bill
Bil
Quba
South America
Port Limon
Costa Rica
Dana
Charlie
Jim
Steader
John Toyal Minns
Eace
Weill
South Amerea
St. Lucia
Board of Trade
Mees Mun
Frity
Gulf Stream
Florida
Castries
St. Iucia
British West Indies
Martinique
Barbados
Louis Maranto
Gibson
Charles Tasitia Benn
Hulle
Straits
Punta Arenas
Taluhuana