Hire Eric Wiberg to Track Down the Past
Research for maritime, aviation, and military history of people, places, items, and events.
Eric Wiberg is a historian and author of over 45 non-fiction books. With over 40 years experience in maritime, aviation, military history, Eric helps research and piece together the backstories of people, places and things. Contact Eric today, if you are interested in the history of items you own, are about to buy, military careers, or are looking for images of people, places, and things from the past.
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Recent Press
LIGHTHOUSES: New Providence & stories of small lighthouses
Fortune Island, Castle Island and Diana Banks wrecks and stories
Cay Sal Bank and Old Bahama Channel lighthouses
A man on a life mission to keep a promise to a friend, by Diane Phillips
Northern Lights of Eleuthera, Abaco, & Grand Bahama
San Salvador’s Dixon Hill Light, history, wrecks, and misadventures
Lighthouses & shipwrecks of Bird Rock Light, Fortune Island
Great Inagua Shipwrecks, South Point Lighthouse
Video Interview: I Interviewed Strangers in Boston
Lighthouses – Great Stirrup Light, Berry Islands & survival stories
Lighthouses – Great Isaac Light, off Bimini
Lights and Wrecks of Ragged Island, the Jumentos, and Long Island
Cay Lobos, Old Bahama Channel, Southern Bahamas
Grand Bahama, Walker’s Cay, Little Bahama Bank Drug Plane Wrecks
The Lighthouse Keepers
Ditched drug planes on Eleuthera, Abaco, Long Island, San Salvador, and Cat Island
Drug plane crashes of Staniel Cay, Exumas, and Long Island
Shipwrecks and U-Boats: Amazing New England Coastal Sea Stories”
Shipwrecks and U-Boats: Amazing New England Coastal Sea Stories
RMA Speaker, March 25: Eric Wiberg – “Shipwrecks and U-Boats: Amazing New England Coastal Sea Stories”
WGCH Interview
Drug plane wrecks of Bimini and Florida Straits
The drug plane saga of Chubb Cay and the Berry Islands
The Explorers Log – Pilot Radio 1930
The mystery of George Snow, a US television crew, and stranded Haitians on Cayo Lobos
Book Reviews
Book Review: Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia by Dan Black
Book Review: Steam Yachts at War by Steve Dunn
Book Review: Oceans of Fate by Dan Black
Book Review: The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket by Jennifer N. Sellitti
Book Review: Paper Diver: How the World’s Greatest Underwater Treasure Hunter Never Got Wet by Gary L. Pinkerton
Book Review: St. Helena: An Island Biography by Arthur MacGregor
Book Review: The British Lighthouse Trail, a Regional Guide by Sarah Kerr
Book Review: Quirky History: Maritime Moments Most History Books Don’t Mention by John Quirk
Book Review: The Development of Crude Oil Tankers. A Historical Miscellany by Ray Solly
Book Review: The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade by A. E. Rooks
Book Review: Warships in the Spanish Civil War by Angus Konstam
Book Review: Giants of the Sea: Ships & Men Who Changed the World by John D. McCown Jr.
Book Review: The Caribbean Front in World War II by José L. Bolívar Fresnada

U-Boats in New England
Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable.
Swan Sinks
The human element of a relatively small incident like the loss of the relatively small, 3530-ton Cygnet, is both compelling and illustrative of the larger, global struggle.
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If you'd like to learn more about the history of U-Boats in the Americas, browse my selection of in-depth accounts of U-Boat Patrols, Attack Narratives and much more in the Historical Resources section.
My Latest Posts
- LIGHTHOUSES: New Providence & stories of small lighthouses August 14, 2026
- Fortune Island, Castle Island and Diana Banks wrecks and stories July 24, 2026
- Book Review: Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia by Dan Black July 15, 2026
- Cay Sal Bank and Old Bahama Channel lighthouses July 3, 2026
- A man on a life mission to keep a promise to a friend, by Diane Phillips June 26, 2026
- Northern Lights of Eleuthera, Abaco, & Grand Bahama June 26, 2026
- San Salvador’s Dixon Hill Light, history, wrecks, and misadventures June 19, 2026
- Lighthouses & shipwrecks of Bird Rock Light, Fortune Island June 12, 2026
- Great Inagua Shipwrecks, South Point Lighthouse May 29, 2026
- Video Interview: I Interviewed Strangers in Boston May 28, 2026






