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Navigating Life at Sea: How Maritime Has Told Its Story

May 26, 2026

By Stefan D-W Tisdale SCI, Archivist People who work on boats have always documented their work and their lives aboard. The forms of documentation have ranged between things that resemble historical research and archives to those that resemble journalism and many forms of art, whether in tattoos, scrimshaw, journaling, painting, drawing, printing, scrapbooks, shanties, sea […]

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WHEN PLANS UNRAVEL—SCI’s Enduring Mission of Care in Times of Maritime Disaster

November 3, 2025

Stefan Dreisbach-Williams Archivist The Seamen’s Church Institute’s mission almost always focuses on the living. When we encounter death at sea, our efforts are most often channeled toward meeting and tending to the survivors: the crew who remain, or the friends and families left behind. As we reflect on the tenth anniversary of the El Faro […]

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