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Alexander Selkirk Alexander Selkirk Selkirk was a Scottish sailor, born in 1676. He was a rather hotheaded man, and tended to look for exciting voyages whenever he could. In the early 1700s, he served in the War of the Spanish Succession, and after gaining valuable experience at sea, in 1704, he joined a British expedition to the South Pacific, just about as far away from Scotland as you can get. On this voyage in 1704, Selkirk and his crewmates had made it as far as the totally uninhabited Juan Fernandez Islands, an archipelago more than 400 miles off the coast of Chile, when they discovered they needed supplies and fresh water. However, when their ship docked at Juan Fernandez Island, Selkirk realized that the ship was in bad shape and needed repairs. He boldly told his captain that he refused to sail on the vessel until it was repaired. The captain refused to repair it, thinking the vessel was fine, and that Selkirk was exaggerating, so he took him up on his offer: he gave Selkirk a...

Have you ever wondered, if  any ancient Greek or Roman ships  like those you've read in books and heard in tales ever been discovered intact?  For sure there has been, infact it was one of the most amazing discoveries ever found ancient they were ancient ships which are excavated in 1929 in Lake Nemi (Nemorensis Lacus). Yes, these ships were found intact but, the sad thing is, once artifacts were moved to museum in Rome in May 1944 they were completely burned down as a result of the shelling of German positions by the Americans. None of the two has survived to this day. Why were the ships unique? The ships were monumental and full of amazing technology. They were over 70 meters long and 24 wide, a system of supplying hot and cold water (pipes with the name of the emperor), bathrooms and baths. Everything in marbles, gold and ivory. Undoubtedly they served the Emperor’s private pleasures – a large living room, kitchen or bedroom indicate that the ships were treated as mobile palaces...