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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
Schooner Californian – 2009 Coastal Sailing Expedition
This sounds like a fantastic trip. From the San Diego Maritime Museum website:
Journey with us as we set sail to some of the most beautiful places along California’s coast- Santa Barbara, Channel Islands National Park, Catalina Island, as well as remote San Nicholas Island, and San Clemente Island aboard the schooner Californian.
This voyage on [...]
A Good Year for Right Whales,
but Watch Out for NOAA
Volunteers and scientists montoring the migration of the North Atlantic right whales, the most endangered whales on the East Coast, announced recently that this has been a very good year for the pods.
Right whales end annual migration
The whales should, however, stay clear of NOAA vessels.
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Exceptional Ex-Military Ship for Sale
This seems a lot more practical and interesting than buying a second-hand submarine, for example. The steel motor yacht “Lady Chebucto” was apparently originally a Canadian Fisheries Patrol vessel, Built in 1966 she has an Ice Class III Hull, a potential range of service of 8,500 miles, and has 19 cabins (6 with private bath and shower), two [...]
Chinese Junk Princess Taiping Run Down by Tanker
UPDATE: Despite initial news reports that the crew was safe there were serious injuries. Update: Sinking of the Princess Taiping -Injury to the Crew
The Chinese junk Princess Taiping was within 30 miles of completing an historical adventure – a round trip across the Pacific to show that Asian sailors might have reached North America before Columbus – when [...]
Car Carrier Fails Sea-trials due to Sinking
Phil on the Shipspotting.com blog reports that the DVI Pacific, a new 6,700-car carrier, on sea trials after leaving the builders yard in Weihai Samjin, China, apparently grounded, capsized and sank. She is likely to be a total loss.
For those unfamiliar with sea trials they are the set of performance and standardization tests that are performed on a new ship [...]
The Chief Steward on the Maersk Alabama sues Maersk over pirate attack
Cost is the usual reason given why US crews are not competitive in the world shipping markets. The cost, however, is not just limited to wages and benefits. Richard Hicks, the Chief Steward on the Maersk Alabama is now suing Maersk for damages for sending him into the piracy-prone Gulf of Aden near Somalia without [...]
Splash out on Lord Nelson’s bucket
Splash out on Lord Nelson’s bucket
This battered bucket is expected to fetch up to £1,000 when it is sold at auction this month.
The leather container with a copper rim is one of HMS Victory’s fire buckets, used during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, in which Lord Nelson was mortally wounded.
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Google Maps reveals cluster of trees was planted to match Nelson’s ship formation during Battle of the Nile
Google Maps reveals cluster of trees was planted to match Nelson’s ship formation during Battle of the Nile
For two centuries, it has stood in the heart of England, an unlikely and landlocked tribute to Britain’s best loved sailor.
Carefully planted across three quarters of a mile of rolling Wiltshire countryside, the 19 clumps of trees mark [...]
An Interview with Alaric Bond
Astrodene’s Historic Naval Fiction site has a great interview with Alaric Bond ahead of the publication of his new novel ‘His Majesty’s Ship‘ by Fireship Press in May 2009. Definitely worth a look.
An Interview with Alaric Bond
We previously reviewed Alaric Bond’s previous novel “Jackass Frigate” and are very much looking forward to his next book.
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The Long Voyage of the Susan Constant, Discovery and Godspeed
This week in maritime history in the year 1607 was a busy one indeed.
While the Dutch were destroying the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Gibraltar, three tiny ships, the Susan Constant, Discovery and Godspeed, finally arrived off the Chesapeake Capes after journey across the Atlantic lasting 144 days. On April 26, 1607, Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, elected president of [...]
Ocean Race to Detour for Whales Near Boston
A fascinating article from this morning’s New York Times:
Ocean Race to Detour for Whales Near Boston
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet has raced for nearly 30,000 nautical miles, through garbage-strewn waters in the China Sea, around a pirate zone on the way to India and over 20-foot waves in the Southern Ocean. As the seven [...]
The Battle of Gibraltar 1607
On this day, four hundred and two years ago, a Dutch fleet 26 small warships under the command of Jacob van Heemskerk surprised a Spanish fleet of 21 ships, including large 10 galleons at anchor in Gibraltar Bay, also known as Algeciras Bay. In a four hour battle, the Spanish fleet was entirely destroyed. The Dutch [...]
William Bainbridge, Robert Gates, and the Question of Ransom
Less than a week after Captain Richard Phillips had been freed and was safely board the USS Bainbridge, Robert Gates, the current Secretary of Defense, gave a speech at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I, in which he argued that shipping companies should not pay ransom for their hijacked ships and crews.
This sort of political blindness makes it [...]
USSR’s sunken Komsomolets submarine may turn into underwater Chernobyl
A very disturbing article in today’s Pravada:
USSR’s sunken Komsomolets submarine may turn into underwater Chernobyl
The most advanced nuclear submarine in the world, the Komsomolets, sank in the neutral waters of the Norwegian Sea 20 years ago. The sub had a nuclear reactor and nuclear warheads on board. They can become the source of a massive [...]
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies…
William Shakespeare is generally considered to have been born on this day in 1564. He died on the same date 52 years later. While there is nothing to suggest that Shakespeare ventured across grander bodies of water than the Thames, his writing about the ocean was masterful. In honor of life, beginning and ending on thsi [...]
