Summer Lecture Series: "Famous Long Island Shipwrecks"

Bill Bleyer will explore the maritime history of Long Island and the famous shipwrecks of Long Island Sound.

Discover dramatic stories of maritime disasters, including the HMS Culloden, wrecked at Montauk during the American Revolution; the 1840 fire that destroyed the steamship Lexington, the Sound’s deadliest catastrophe; and the sinking of the USS San Diego during World War I, among others.

Bill Bleyer is the author of Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History and several other books on Long Island’s past. After an award-winning career as a reporter for Newsday, he now writes as an author and freelance journalist.

This program is part of the Mystic Seaport Museum Summer Lecture Series commemorating America 250, featuring discussions on a diverse variety of topics such as women’s roles in the Revolution, local maritime history, and African American Revolutionary patriots. Additionally, on Thursday, June 11, Marla Miller presents “Betsy Ross: The Life Behind the Legend” and Thursday, August 13, John Mills presents “Stories of Connecticut’s Black Patriots.”