Famous Long Island Shipwrecks (In Person)

Learn about prominent Long Island shipwrecks by historian, author and retired Newsday reporter Bill Bleyer. This talk will cover maritime disasters from the Prins Maurits, carrying colonists to what would become Delaware, HMS Culloden wrecked at Montauk during the American Revolution, the Mexico and Bristol carrying immigrants during the early 1800s, the fire that destroyed the steamship Lexington in 1840 – Long Island Sound’s worst calamity – to the sinking of the USS San Diego in World War I and the loss of the tugboat Gwendoline Steers in a 1962 winter storm.