Ditty Box Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/ditty-box/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:03:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-MSP_Logo_100_White-32x32.png Ditty Box Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/ditty-box/ 32 32 Sailors Ditty Box Returned to Antarctica for Historic Anniversary https://mysticseaport.org/news/sailors-ditty-box-returned-to-antarctica-for-historic-anniversary/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:06:17 +0000 https://mysticseaport.org/?p=377208 Two hundred and three years ago Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer, American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer sailed down to Marguerite Bay below the Antarctic Circle to discover what became known as Stonington Island, named after Palmer’s hometown of Stonington, Connecticut. The Island would eventually accommodate US and British Antarctic bases. This voyage was […]

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