° For your logo items, please visit The MHP Ship Store !

The Ships Store features items of the sea and quality boating gear from West Marine: Music, DVDs of great sea adventures, nautical wear, high-end sailing gear, dive gear, toys, games and Ship Building Kits (such as the exquisite US Constellation American Frigate Wooden Ship Model Kit by Artesania Latina pictured right).

° Africa!
° Volcanoes: Iceland, Italy, The Aleutian Islands
° Shanghai Yacht Club elects new officers, 1871
° Captain Edward L. Wakeman writes of his visit to Malta in 1892
° Alexandria sugar production third behind New York and Pennsylvania (in the late 1800s with less than one-tenth the population!)
° The Annexation of the Dominican Republic, 1869
° The plight of the Finns in the late 1800s
° The Deed for Benicia City from M.G. Vallejo
° Ports in Africa
° Cotton!
° News on the first of the ships to California's gold fields
° 1849: Publisher predicts that English will be the most spoken language in the world!
° December 1854: Market Review
° January 1, 1855: Gold discovered at Valparaiso
° April 23, 1855: The Crook Meiggs turns up in Chile!
°Report from the Sandwich Islands, September 10, 1858
° Lists from The Deep Sea Derby of 1853: Meteor and Queen of the Seas

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