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Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis
Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships by W. H. Bunting
His Majesty's Ship by Alaric Bond
Galveston's the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas by Kurt Voss
My River Chronicles - Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong
The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O'Brian by by Geoff Hunt and Brian Lavery
James Nelson's George Washington's Secret Navy
Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas Truxes
Deadly Shoals, a Wiki Coffin Mystery by Joan Druett
Star Crossedby Linda Collison
The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)
The Jackass Frigate byAlaric Bond
Steady As She Goesby John Molloy
Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865
Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Long-awaited Naval Academy Museum update will protect documents, artifacts
From HomeTownAnnapolis:
The museum has about 50,000 artifacts, including the table from the USS Missouri at which Adm. Chester Nimitz, Naval Academy Class of 1905, signed documents accepting Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II. It also has the spur John Wilkes Booth allegedly wore the night he mortally wounded President Abraham Lincoln.The museum [...]
What do you do with a Grumpy Pirate?
A British charity which promotes childrens literacy has seen fit to rewrite a beloved sea shanty to remove any reference to alcohol. Oddly it has injected murder and theft into the song instead. They have replaced “What shall we do with a drunken sailor” with “What shall be do with a grumpy pirate?” (Thanks to Aleric for [...]
Blogging at Sea, Hen Frigates and a Good Story Spoiled, or Perhaps Not
There are a few bloggers who blog via satellite from ships or sailboats or send their reports back to friends ashore who post them to blogs. John A. Konrad V, is a Master Mariner who blogs by satellite from his ship. He has a great blog for maritime professionals or those with an interest in merchant shipping – gCaptain. [...]
The Ghost Ship, the Stumbling Block, John Greenleaf Whittier and the Witch
Since the 18th century, residents of Block Island have reported seeing off their shores the spectral ship, Palatine, which bursts into flames and then sinks beneath the waves, often between Christmas and New Years Day. According to legend she is the ghost of a ship carrying German immigrants that ran aground on the island. She also was the source of a feud [...]
Update on FREE CHINA
This seems to be a day of updates. As folks around the world celebrate Chinese New Year – Happy Year of the Ox to all - an update on FREE CHINA seems appropriate. As we reported previously FREE CHINA is an authentic Fujian junk, possibly the oldest Chinese wooden sailing vessel of operable condition in existence—and the last [...]
Update on FALLS OF CLYDE
The Friends of Falls of Clyde have issued a press release on her current status. As we reported previously, the movement of the ship was delayed by bad weather. They have now lost their drydocking window and will have to wait for a new availability as well as arranging all the other logistics for the move. [...]
British shipwreck holds £2.6 billion treasure, explorers claim
Salvagers claim to have found the world’s richest wreck – a British ship sunk by a Nazi submarine while laden with a £2.6 billion cargo that included gold, platinum and diamonds.
From the Telegraph.co.uk by Jasper Copping
In a project shrouded in secrecy, work is due to start on recovering the cargo, which was being transported to [...]
In Rhode Island, Hoping a Tall Ship Can Help a Sagging Economy
A follow-up to our previous post - ”Great News from Rhode Island – OLIVER HAZARD PERRY“ - from this morning’s New York Times :
NEWPORT, R.I. – Among the luxury yachts and commercial fishing boats in this city’s famous harbor rests a giant steel hull that officials hope will be an economic engine in troubled times.
As Rhode Island [...]
What to do with Modern Pirates?
One of the powers and responsibilities of the US Congress, under Article 1 Section 8, Clause 10 of the US Constitution, is “to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.“ It seems relatively straight forward. Why then has the US Navy usually released Somali pirates who [...]
From the Boston Globe – Sailing, Around the World
The Boston Globe’s ‘The Big Picture” – News Stories in Photographs featured a fantastic series of photographs last Friday. Aptly titled Sailing, Around the World , it features 30 large photographs ranging from modern racing sail to square-rigged tall ships to a replica of a Viking longship. Nothing less than breathtaking.
The photo above captures two very different [...]
Californian & Lynx – the Battle of San Diego Bay 2009
There are many reason why I would have liked to have been in San Diego this weekend rather than on the banks of the Hudson River. That San Diego bay is almost 50 degrees F warmer than New York harbor comes immediately to mind.
Beyond the temperature difference, the wonderful folks at the San Diego Maritime Museum and [...]
The Tragedy that Wasn’t and the Revival of NY Harbor
Last Thursday, US Air flight 1549 collided with a flock of geese shortly after takeoff, losing power in both engines. The pilot, C.B. “Sully” Sullenberger, made a split-second decision to put the plane down in the Hudson River and performed a perfect dead-stick landing. All 156 passengers and crew all made it out alive. But that is just [...]
Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
Thomas Truxes, senior lecturer in the history department at Trinity College, has a new book which looks fascinating – Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York.
“This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ [...]
The Lightship Nantucket – Part 2: A New Paradigm for Ship Preservation
The classic model of ship preservation is to attempt to restore the ship to as close to her original condition as possible, turn her into a museum and support the project through admission fees and fund raising. This approach has worked for some ships but has failed for many more.
It did not succeed for the Nantucket Lightship [...]
The Lightship Nantucket – Part 1: A Ship Reborn
Over twenty years ago, I went aboard the last Nantucket Lightship (MLV-612). It was a floating museum then and had been maintained in roughly the same condition as when she was in service, only a few years before. The primary difference was that as a museum she was tied up alongside a dock and not bobbing at [...]
