sea

If we turn back the pages of maritime history during the past couple of centuries or so we will find that Manx skippers and sailors played a notable part in …

Update 21/12/19: It seems there is a query and this may not be a high tide marker after all as someone has said it is an OS datum marker so …

This dramatic oil painting, ‘The Wreck of the St George‘ illustrates a most epic rescue at sea. On Friday November 19, 1830, under the command of Lieutenant John Tudor R.N., …

Between Bow Veg and Glen Wither, on the coast north of The Sound, is a place called Lhiondaig Phollinag, or the Mermaids’ Green or Garden, and the tradition is that …

Enter Cutlar Mac Culloch, a powerful rover from Galloway who made repeated excursions into the northern parts of the Isle of Man around 1507. He would carry off all that …

It was Midsummer Day, and the Peel Herring Fleet, with sails half set, was ready for sea. The men had their barley sown, and their potatoes down, and now their …

Superstitious as were the Manxmen whose occupations were on land, they were surpassed by the Manxmen whose occupation was on the sea. Proof of this is afforded by the following …

Under the Chasms, on the shore, is a well near the sea. The salt water comes into it at high tide, but when it is ebbing the fresh water spring …