GRANDPA LAMBERTON and THE GREAT SHIPPE OF GHOSTS

In his poem The Phantom Ship --Henry Wadsworth Longfellowimmortalized the appearance in the sky of a ship lost at sea in 1647between New Haven Colony and London.In Froebel-Parker's book a grandmother a descendant of Capt.George Lamberton recounts the story to her attentive grandchildrenwhile explaining to them the stories of other colonial New Englandancestors and their own ship adventures.