Lighthouses & Navigation
Coastal Life
Before automation and GPS, crews lived for weeks aboard floating beacons, rocking on station through gales to guard the approaches no tower could cover.
Long before charts and GPS, fishing families carried a mental map of every rock, current, and bird flight along their home coast, passed down by word and habit.
For poor coastal communities, a wreck was a tragedy and a windfall at once, and the law of salvage grew out of that uncomfortable truth.
Message in a Bottle: The Curious History of Maritime Mail
Ports & Harbours
Coastal Life
