Exploring Shipwrecks on Land
Exploring Shipwrecks on Land by Elena Strong, National Museum of Bermuda Over five centuries, hundreds of vessels have come to grief on Bermuda’s encircling reefs due to pilot error, raging storms, inaccurate charts and the historical
Piloting Bermuda
Piloting Bermuda By Elena Strong, National Museum of Bermuda “No stranger should attempt any of the anchorages or channels without a pilot” Daniel Robert Tucker, Channels and Reefs Around Bermuda 1840 The graveyard of shipwrecks surrounding
Do You Know about Cecil Montgomery-Moore?
Do You Know...about Cecil Montgomery-Moore, Fighter Pilot, Author and Commanding Officer of the BVE? By Horst Augustinovic Raised in Bermuda, Cecil Montgomery-Moore attended the Saltus Grammar School and at the age of 11 joined the
150 years of Mark Twain and Bermuda
“You can go to heaven if you want. I’d rather stay in Bermuda.” ~ Mark Twain 150 Years of Mark Twain & Bermuda By Martin Buckley, Department Manager, The Bookmart at Brown & Co. 2017
Do you know…about the proposed floating airport in 1929?
Do you know... That in 1929 a proposal was made to build a Floating Airport between New York and Bermuda? By Horst Augustinovic By 1929 more than 400,000 passengers were traveling the world by air.
Do you know…about Woodrow Wilson’s ‘flirtatious relationship’ in Bermuda?
Do you know...About Woodrow Wilson’s ‘flirtatious relationship’ in Bermuda? By Horst Augustinovic Born in 1856 in Virginia, Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not learn to read until he was 12 years old, yet he became a
