Salem Maritime National Park
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Thursday September 17 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
"Hannah in Context: What Really Happened, and Why Did it Matter?" Lecture
Captain Michael Rutstein recounts the events leading to the battle between schooner Hannah and HMS Nautilus Oct. 1775.Join Captain Michael Rutstein as he covers the events leading up to the famous battle between the armed American schooner Hannah and HMS Nautilus in Oct......More
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Wednesday September 23 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
"American Admiralty Law in Salem and Boston, 1800–1840, and Its Legacy" Lecture
Judge William G. Young explores how Salem and Boston maritime conflicts (1800–1840) shaped early American admiralty law post Revolution.Learn about the establishment of American Admiralty Law in Salem and Boston following the American Revolution tracing how early 19th-c......More
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Thursday November 19 6:30pm - 8:00pm EST
"To the Farthest Ports of the Rich East" Lecture
Join James Fichter as he discusses profit and peril in the new trade to AsiaWith independence from Britain secured in the 1780s American began trading to Asia for themselves. They bought tea in China. They sailed to the East India Company-administered India for cloth to......More