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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
A Salty Dog Wins the 2009 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
This year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winner has a distinctly nautical flare:
“Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin’ off Nantucket Sound from the nor’ east and the dogs are howlin’ for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew [...]
The Last Packet: the Charles Cooper – from Black Rock Harbor to the Falklands
As we described in our recent post -The Two Lady Elizabeths, last of the Windjammers, the Lady Elizabeth, was damaged rounding Cape Horn in 1913 and limped into Port Stanley where she was condemned and sold as a warehouse. She was not the first. On June 1, 1866, the three-masted square-rigger, Charles Cooper, outbound from Philadelphia for San Francisco with [...]
Sails in the Sunday Sunset, New York Harbor
Before the city became know for its skyscrapers, the shores of New York harbor were fringed with a forest of masts of ships, large and small. Those days are gone yet not entirely forgotten. This evening as the sun was setting, the harbor again seemed full of sails.
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Britons Win Inaugural Indian Ocean Rowing Race 2009
We had previously blogged about a group of four women, the “Ocean Angels” competing in the first Indian Ocean Rowing race. They were in the lead when we posted. – Naked Ladies Lead Indian Ocean Rowing Race.
The initial race results are in and after 68 days, 19 hours and 40 minutes later, the Bexhill Trust Challenger, [...]
The Onondaga Submarine Museum and “Monster Moves”
HMCS Onondaga, the longest serving submarine in the Canadian Navy, now has a new home at the Musee de la Mer de Pointe-au-Pere in Rimouski, Quebec. After narrowly avoiding being sold for scrap, the Onondaga was sold to the museum for $4 Canadian plus tax. The submarine has been restored for a reported $2.6 million, and is [...]
What is it about the Bounty?
The replica of HMS Bounty, used in the 1962 MGM movie “Mutiny on the Bounty“ starring Marlon Brando, is in New York at Pier 66 on the Hudson River. After nearly falling to pieces under the prior owner, the Bounty, almost 60 years old, is looking good once again and sailing extensively. I sailed on her briefly many years ago when she [...]
Stan Rogers – An Appreciation
Yesterday we posted about Nova Scotia’s Summer Festivals including the Stan Rogers Folk Festival on July 3-5 in Canso on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Stan Rogers wasn’t only singer and writer of sea songs. His range of interests was far broader. Nevertheless, many of his songs about the sea have become classics.
Stan Rogers was a Canadian folk singer who [...]
Aircraft carrier Forrestal to be scrapped or sunk
Navy: Forrestal to be scrapped or sunk
The famous aircraft carrier Forrestal will be cut up for scrap or sunk as an artificial reef, the Navy has determined.
A partial dismantling would result in the hulk of the ship sunk as an artificial reef, as the carrier Oriskany was in 2006.
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Nova Scotia’s Summer Festivals
Nova Scotia seems like the place to be in July.
Nova Scotia’s Summer Festivals Celebrate a Music Legend, Sea-Faring History, and the Rich Maritime Culture of Canada’s Atlantic Capital
In addition to Tall Ships Nova Scotia Festival 2009 taking place up and down the coast from July 16 – August 1, there are number of great local [...]
Royal Navy destroyer goes into service without missile system
In February, we posted, Warships Old and New, about a new British warship, HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer, which docked next to HMS Victory, following her maiden voyage. We commented that “HMS Daring not only costs more than HMS Victory in today’s currency, but the six new destroyers of her class may cost almost as much [...]
The Ladies of the Waves Rule Britannia
Last month we posted about Dee Caffari ’s planned attempt to break the Round Britain and Ireland sailing record with an all-female crew. Dee Caffari is the first woman to have sailed alone around the world in both directions. Well, they did it! Our congratulations to Dee and her amazing crew. As reported in Yacht Pals:
The Ladies [...]
Zuni, the “Mighty Z” – Survivor of Iwo Jima and the “Perfect Storm” may have a New Home
As the USS Zuni, a 205-foot Navy salvage tug, nicknamed the “Mighty Z”, she fought in the battle of Iwo Jima. Of the 800 ships that fought in the battle, she is the last survivor.
After the war she was turned over to the US Coast Guard who recommissioned her as the USCGC Tamaroa, a [...]
Update – MV Princess of the Stars Capsize: Prosecutions Announced
As a follow to yesterday’s post, prosecutors in the Philippines have announced that they will file criminal charges against a company executive and the missing captain of the MV Princess of the Stars that capsized in a storm, killing 800. The ferry was operated by Sulpicio Lines, the second largest cargo carrier in the Philippines.
Philippines to prosecute ferry [...]
Captains Contentious – The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine by Louis Arthur Norton – A Review
Louis Arthur Norton’s book Captains Contentious – The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine is an entertaining reminder that history is finally about individuals, dedicated to the causes in which they believe, as well as serving their own needs and obsessions.
Norton looks at five ship’s captains who fought for the infant American Navy in the Revolutionary [...]
The Capsizing of the MV Princess of the Stars –
One Year Later
One year ago this week the MV Princess of the Stars capsized off the coast of San Fernando, Romblon in the Philippines at the height of Typhoon Fengshen. Of the more than 800 passengers and crew only 52 survived. In addition tho the loss of life, the ship was found to be illegally carrying pesticides [...]
