Tiny crystals from a 17th-century shipwreck hold secrets of a global supply chain at the dawn of capitalism
Few episodes occupy a darker place in maritime history than the wreck of the Batavia. Wrecked…
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Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors
Enlarge / Oil painting by Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin depicting tje HMS Erebus trapped…
