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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
Flagship Niagara – Don’t Give Up the Ship!
The Brig Niagara’s sailing program is in danger of ending due to budget cuts by the State of Pennsylvania. The Flagship Niagara League (FNL), a 501(c)(3) corporation, is beginning a campaign to raise funds to keep the sailing program going. The PA Historical and Museum Commission has agreed to allow the ship to keep sailing if the FNL can [...]
Quarterdeck Historical Fiction Newsletter
March/April 2009
McBooks’ Quarterdeck Historical Fiction Newsletter March/April 2009 is out, featuring interviews with Julian Stockwin and William H. White, as well as the latest in news and title of upcoming nautical and historical fiction. I particularly enjoyed George Jepson’s column, Sweetwater Heritage, where he considers the history of the anything but placid Great Lakes from the deck of the [...]
The Curse of the Aurora
This seems like an appropriate post for a Monday morning.
Curse of the Aurora as passengers revolt
Some ships are lucky and some are not. P&O’s new luxury cruise liner Aurora seems to be the latter. From the champagne bottle that didn’t break, to mechanical problems, to the norovirus bug, to hepatitis, to more mechanical problems – not [...]
The Silent War: The Merchant Marine in World War II
From the National Maritime Historical Society Lecture series:
The Silent War: The Merchant Marine in World War II
A presentation by Tom Schiesel, an American Merchant Marine Veteran, on Saturday, 25 April 2009 at the DiBart Neighborhood Center at the Field Library 4 Nelson Avenue, Peekskill, NY.
The wartime role of the American Merchant Marine was rarely documented and, as [...]
The Magnificent, Mysterious Orca
There are few creatures more magnificent and more mysterious than the orca, commonly known as the killer whale. Recently pods of orcas were discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, where no one expected to find them. It was a reminder of just how little we know about these extremely intelligent and formidable whales.
Years ago, I had the [...]
Updates and Corrections – RMS Laconia and Cambridge Bay
Thanks to Mike Poirier of the Titanic International Society for pointing out that the photograph in the post – RMS LACONIA – For the Ship that Changed the Course of the Great War, the Battle Continues, is in fact the wrong Laconia. “The picture on this page is actually of the Laconia that sank in 1942. [...]
Illuminating the Sea: The Marine Paintings of James E. Buttersworth, 1817-1894
Illuminating the Sea: The Marine Paintings of James E. Buttersworth, 1817-1894, a major retrospective exhibition highlighting the work of famed 19th-century marine artist James Edward Buttersworth, opens at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, on Saturday, March 28, 2009, and is on view through Sunday, July 5, 2009. A ship portraitist who meticulously illustrated America’s [...]
Paddlesport 2009
After an annoying cold spring, Friday was balmy and sunny and a fine day to go to Paddlesport, “the East Coast’s largest kayak, canoe, and outdoor show”. Having sailed on everything from dinghies, to plastic sailboats to wooden schooners to square-rigged replicas of 18th century ships, I do love sailing. Nevertheless, pound for pound and dollar for dollar, there [...]
Greenbird Smashes the Sail Land Speed Record – 126 mph under sail !!!
From the Greenbird blog:
On the morning of March 26th, on the ‘dry’ Lake Ivanpah, The Ecotricity Greenbird driven by British engineer, Richard Jenkins smashed the world land speed record for wind powered vehicles. The Greenbird clocked 126.1 mph (202.9 km/h) , eclipsing the old, American held, record of 116 mph , set by Bob Schumacher [...]
Cruising the Northwest Passage
Where Franklin and Hudson failed, cruise passengers will now travel in luxury. From Baird Online
“This August, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ four and five star expedition ships, ‘Bremen’ and ‘Hanseatic’ will traverse one of the world’s most historic and unexplored sea routes, the Northwest Passage.
The two vessels will sail in opposite directions and meet in the heart of [...]
Happy Anniversary of the Founding of the US Navy, not to be Confused with the Navy’s Birthday or Navy Day
On this day, March 27, 1794, President George Washington and Congress authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy with the passage of the Naval Act of 1794, which provided for the construction of the USS United States, the USS Constellation, USS Constitution, delivered in 1797 and the USS Chesapeake, USS Congress, and USS President, delivered in 1800.
March [...]
Schooner A.J. Meerwald looking for crew and volunteers
The schooner A.J. Meerwald began her career in 1928 as a bald-headed (without topmasts), gaff-rigged oyster dredge in the Delaware Bay. She is now a sailing classroom educating young and old about the environment, the history and the culture of the New Jersey bayshore region. She is also the official “tall ship” of the State [...]
Thomas Truxes, author of Defying Empire, on the radio
Thomas Truxes, contributor to this blog and author of Defying Empire, is being interviewed today on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC 820 at 12:00 noon.
Dr. Truxes will also be speaking on Wednesday, April 15, 6:30 pm at the American Irish Historical Society on 991 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.
The interview is available on-line as a [...]
Jenny – RIP
No too long ago cargo ships took week to unload in bustling port cities around the world. These days, container ships turn in hours at desolate terminals far from city centers. The same is true with tankers, bulk carriers and ro-ros. Jenny and her side party of girls in Hong Kong, were a remnant of that other time and [...]
Historic Tug Sinks in Duluth Harbor
From Northlands News Center: A piece of the Port of Duluth’s history is now sitting on the bottom of Lake Superior Bay. The historic retired Army Corps of Engineers tug boat “Es-say’-ons” has been a Twin Ports fixture since 1908. The tug’s engine is on display at the Marine Museum in Canal Park. The vessel’s hull [...]
