The exhibition explains how the 1860 delegates' descriptions of American wonders like railroads and steamships set off a wave of immigration.
Last month, Odyssey announced its discovery of the British steamship Gairsoppa off Ireland and estimated its cargo at up to 240 tons of silver — a trove worth more than $200 million.
The storm delayed a search for the remains of the Civil War steamship USS Monitor off the coast of North Carolina.
This year it was Micheal Grace, of the Grace steamship family who drove off in what Mr. Mezey considers his finest creation.
The sensation is comparable to the epiphany that Adolf Loos, the Viennese architect, experienced when he stepped off a steamship in New York Harbor more than a century ago.
Franco continued his career as a filmmaker with The Broken Tower, a 90-minute docudrama shot in black and white about poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Yersin left Europe in 1890 to serve as a physician aboard steamships operating off the coast of Indochina and soon began his four-year exploration of the central region.
Amidst rough seas produced by the hurricane, the steamship Nicholas Castina sank off the coast of Cuba, near the Isle of Pines.
Of course, on the quay, there was none of the hullabaloo of the 1920s, when a scrum of reporters nicknamed "Gangplank Willies" kept tabs on the scions and starlets who would reliably stream off trans-Atlantic steamships.
The steamship, the Portland, sank off Massachusetts on Nov. 26, 1898, killing more than 190 people, after it ignored storm forecasts and sailed from Boston bound for Portland, Me.
