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Halloween and Haunted Ships
While there are numerous old ships that are reported to be haunted (see our previous post about the SS Great Britain, “the most haunted ship in Britain”) quite a few ships seem to become haunted just in time for Halloween. In Duluth, MN, the Great Lakes bulk carrier William A Irvin is transformed from a museum to a ghost [...]
Tags: Columbus' Santa Maria, haunted ship, Inflatable Haunted Pirate Ship, Mayflower II, Plimouth Plantations, SS Great Britain, SS Salem, Star of India, William A Irvin
The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger
In the 1875, Fred Harlow was a teenager eager to follow the example of his three brothers and go to sea. After one trip on a coasting schooner to appease his parents, he signed aboard the Yankee square-rigger, Akbar, bound for Australia and Java. He kept a journal of his trip which, fifty years [...]
Update: Mary Crowley and Project Kaisei
We have previously posted about a voyage to study the the “Great Plastic Vortex” in the Pacific Ocean on the New Horizon from Scripps in San Diego and the Kaisei from San Francisco.
CNN recently featured an update on Mary Crowley, one of the founders of Project Kaisei, - Woman tackles ‘Great Garbage Patch’.
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Tags: Doug Woodring, George Orbelian, Great Garbage Patch, Great Plastic Vortex, Kaisei, Mary Crowley, New Horizon, Project Kaisei
Solar Sailor – Combining Rigid Sails and Solar Cells
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In 1996, Australian physician and sailing enthusiast Robert Dane was watching a solar boat race, when he noticed that the solar-panelled vessels had trouble as soon as the wind picked up. “They either had to take their panels down or tie them flat; otherwise they were unseaworthy,” he recalls. “So, I’m thinking, ‘we can [...]
Tags: Hong Kong, rigid sails, Robert Dane, solar cells, Solar Sailor
HMS Bounty joining Schooner Lynx at New Winter Berth
We recently posted about the Schooner Lynx moving from the West coast to a new berth at the Palm Beach Maritime Museum. She will apparently be in good company. News from the Tallship Bounty organization:
After a recent stop in the Azores, Bounty continues her course home to the states and we are reminded that the 2009 [...]
Update: Pavlopetri – Homeric City Beneath the Sea
Last May we posted about Pavlopetri, a submerged city off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece. Recently, archaeologists surveying Pavlopetri have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic suggestings that the city was occupied some 5,000 years ago – at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought. It is believed to be the oldest [...]
Tags: archaeologists, Atlantis, Final Neolithic, Greece, marine geologists, oldest underwater city, Pavlopetri, southern Laconia
Destroyer Collides with Container Ship
The Japanese naval destroyer Kurama collided with the Korean container ship Carina Star, setting both on fire. Of the two ships, the destroyer was more seriously damaged. Fortunately there were no serius injuries on either ship. The accident occurred under the Kanmon Bridge – about 530 miles southwest of Tokyo on the southern tip of [...]
Tags: Carina Star, Honshu, Japan, Japanese naval destroyer, Kanmon Bridge, Korean container ship, Kurama, Tokyo
The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs
The New York harbor waterfront is fascinating for both what it is and what it was. Pamela Talese beautifully captures this mix of beauty and decay in her current exhibit, “Rust Never Sleeps – Corrosion and Renewal in Maritime/ Industrial New York” which we recently reviewed . A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York , “The [...]
A Belated Happy Birthday to Douglass Reeman/Alexander Kent
Douglas Reeman, who also writes under the pen-name Alexander Kent, was born on October 15th, 1924 in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, which makes us almost a fortnight late in wishing him a happy birthday. He has been acclaimed as “the master of the modern sea story,” and is without question the most popular living writer of nautical fiction. He [...]
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The Great White Whale – Not Moby but Migaloo
This may be old news to Australians, but it was brand new to me.
In 1991 a white humpback whale was sighted off the coast of Australia. It was estimated to be three or four years old and was christened Migaloo, meaning “white fellow” in an Indigenous Australian language. Every year Migaloo swims from the coast of New South [...]
Tags: celebrity whale, Great Barrier Reef, Migaloo, New South Whales, northern Queensland, Southern Cross University, Special Interest Whale, white fellow, white humpback whale
Any Approaching Enemy by Jay Worrall – a Review
Grundner’s latest book “The Temple” ends with the Battle of the Nile in 1798. (See our review here.) I just happened to pick up Jay Worrall’s An Approaching Enemy, whose climax also happens to be the Battle of the Nile. And why not? It is a great moment in naval history.
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The Ice that Burns Found Beneath the Sea
I did a double take. The headline read - “China’s exploration vessel for combustible ice delivered.” China just spent $59 million dollars building a deep-sea exploration ship to explore for “combustible ice.” The article went on to say, “China announced in 2007 to have successfully excavated combustible ice, a kind of natural gas hydrate, under the [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide, combustible ice, green-house gas, Ice that Burns, methane, natural gas hydrate, South China Sea
Tenders Out to Break up the City of Adelaide
It appears that the City of Adelaide, the oldest surviving clipper ship in the world, may soon be broken up. Last week, Peter Maddison, a councillor from Sunderland, where the ship known as the City of Adelaide was built, ended his four day occupation of the ship when he ran out of water. The BBC reports [...]
Update: Blue Whale Struck by Survey Vessel
Update: Recent reports indicate that the vessel that killed this whale was a survey boat contracted by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service hired under the Marine Life Protection Act, which is darkly ironic. The boat was using multibeam echo sounders which some critics claim is painful to whales and could to lead to disorientation which might have contributed [...]
Tags: blue whale, California, Fort Bragg, Mendocino County
Rust Never Sleeps – the art of Pamela Talese
Pamela Talese gets it. Her paintings of ships, drydocks, cranes and industrial buildings manage to capture the essence of the waterfront - the inexorable wasting away balanced against the stubborn resilience and abiding strength of these structures, afloat and ashore. I stopped by the Atlantic Gallery this week to see her new show “Rust Never Sleeps – Corrosion and [...]
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