Ships, Shipwrecks and Submarines of Hampton, New Hampshire and Vicinity
Table of Contents
Ships and Boats
- From Joseph Dow's History of Hampton
- The Sea Captain's Old Bible
- Old Hampton folklore about two sea captains from Hampton in the 1600s,
James Philbrick and Samuel Palmer
- Hampton's giant anchor and a history of the battleships New Hampshire
- The sloop Mayflower
- Transcription of an original bill of sale, from an article in PLVS VLTRA Newsletter ,
First Quarter, 2001, courtesy of the author. (PDF file)
- USS Kearsarge
- Built in Portsmouth in 1861
- USS Archerfish
- Built in Portsmouth in 1943
The Hampton Boat
- The Hampton Boat of Casco Bay
- By Warren Watson, Motor Boat , January 25, 1909
- The Sturdy Hampton Boat
- By Allan O. Goold, Motor Boating , August 1911
- "Shrimp", a 25-Foot Hampton Boat
- By William J. Deed, Motor Boating , April 1921
- How the "Whistler" Came to Be
- By William Harnden Foster, Motor Boat , October 10, 1921
- The Hampden Boats
- By H. I. Chapelle, Yachting , July 1938
- Hampton-Hamden Boat
- By Charles P. Emerson, American Neptune , v.1, 1941, p. 173
- The Hampton Boat
- By Phelps Soule, American Neptune , April 1943
- The Hampton Boat
- By Howard Irving Chapelle, From American small sailing craft,
their design, development and construction , Norton, 1951, pg. 137-140 - The Elusive Hampton Boats
- By John Gardner, The Small Boat Journal , November 1979
Shipwrecks
- Storms and Wrecks
- From Dow's History of Hampton
- Shipwrecks and Coast Watching
- by William Everett Cram, Hampton Union , Decmeber 30, 1937
- Shipwrecks Off Our Town
- A 1951 Hampton Union "Our Town" column by James W. Tucker describing the many shipwrecks off the coast of Hampton over the centuries.
- Shipwrecks and Life-Saving
- from Peter Randall's 1988 history of Hampton
- The Wreck of Rivermouth in 1657 and John Greenleaf Whittier's poem about the disaster
- The Mast Ship St. George , wrecked off Hampton Beach on November 30, 1764
- The Brig 'Hope' , wrecked at Hampton Beach in November 1798
- The William Tell , wrecked off Hampton Beach in the early 1800s.
- The Schooner Glendon , wrecked off Hampton Beach on February 9, 1896:
- The Hampton Beach Tornado of 1898 , in which 9 people were killed, many in the sinking of a small boat
- The Schooner Mary A. Brown , wrecked on Hampton Beach on December 7, 1900.
- The Yacht 'Guest List' , abandoned on Hampton Beach in 2014.
Hampton Submarines
- Hampton's unique submarine of the 1920's
- Rockingham County Gazette & Bordertown News , By Karen Webber, August 10, 1977
- USS Hampton (SSN 767)
Other Local Submarine Stories
- USS Squalus, (SS-192)
- Built in Portsmouth, sunk off the Isles of Shoals: May 23, 1939 -- Salvaged: September 13, 1939.
- USS Albacore, (AGSS-569)
- Built in Portsmouth in 1952-53, now a museum in Portsmouth
- USS Thresher, (SSN-593)
- Built in Portsmouth, lost with all hands, east of Boston: April 10, 1963
- USS New Hampshire Sub Christened
- Atlantic News , June 27, 2008
Related Links
- The Hampton Beach Coast Guard Life-Saving station
- Hampton Storms
- The New Hampshire Marine Memorial at Hampton Beach
- The Hampton River
