"Famous Long Island Shipwrecks" Lecture

Thu Jul 09 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-04:00

75 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic, CT, United States, Connecticut 06355 | Mystic

Mystic Seaport Museum
Publisher/HostMystic Seaport Museum
"Famous Long Island Shipwrecks" Lecture
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Join us for a lecture by Bill Bleyer exploring 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 event is part of a summer lecture series commemorating America 250. Visit the Museum on August 13 for a presentation by John Mills, CT historian and genealogist.
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75 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic, CT, United States, Connecticut 06355

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