Featured Books
True Colours by Alaric Bond
Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard by Dunlop & Shaw
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
PS Ryde – Mine-sweeper ship that defied the Germans on D-Day set to be scrapped
Not every historic vessel can be saved and not every historic vessel should be saved. The difficult question is deciding which are worthy of saving before they fall prey to the ravages of time or, in this case, the bureaucracy. A story from today’s Daily Mail: Mine-sweeper ship that defied the Germans on D-Day set to be scrapped for health [...]
Aircraft Carrier George H.W. Bush Delivered
After being under construction for almost a decade, the aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush was accepted by the US Navy following final seatrials last Friday. Northrop Grumman delivers Bush aircraft carrier to Navy
Teenagers Racing Around the Globe – First Zac, then Mike, Jessica and now Abby
In July of last year, Zac Sunderland, a 17-year-old from Southern California, became the youngest person to sail around the world alone. He held that tile for only about a month as the British 17 year old sailor, Mike Perham, who was a few months younger than Zac, completed his circumnavigation. Both Zac and Mike made [...]
Royal Mail Ship St Helena – Delivery Service for a Remote Island
Delivery service for the remote island of St Helena The tiny British colony of St Helena in the South Atlantic – the world’s most remote inhabited island – is being hit by Whitehall’s spending cuts. An airport considered by many to be vital for the island’s future has been cancelled. The Royal Mail Ship St [...]
Flotilla of Yachts Sailing with Haitain Aid
A great story from the Yachtpals blog. Organized by the non-profit group Oceans Watch, a flotilla of at least a dozen yachts loaded with aid for Haiti, led by the 74 foot schooner Wolf, will set sail from Key West on February 8th. A second flotilla is gathering in Jamaica, and there are more yachts throughout the [...]
UK Government says “Don’t Pay Ransom and Don’t Arm your Ships”
Last week we posted about the International Chamber of Shipping’s concern that governments are not doing enough to combat piracy. Now the British government, after long opposing the payment of ransoms to free hijacked ships is also trying to discourage the use of armed guards on UK merchant ships. British government policy appears to be to not provide [...]
Submarines Navigating Badly
Last week a navy commander and two fellow officers pleaded guilty to crashing the HMS Superb, a British nuclear submarine, in 2008, into a massive stone pinnacle under the Red Sea which was marked on maritime charts. Navy commander crashed £32m British submarine after failing to ensure craft’s ’safe direction’
Oil Spill in Texas Contained
An Aframax tanker, the Eagle Otome, collided with an oil barge in the Sabine Neches Waterway at Port Arthur, Texas on Saturday. Initial reports suggested 12, 000 barrels of crude oil were unaccounted for, though local officials are now estimating that approximately 1,000 barrels were actually spilled. The crude oil spill is reported to have been contained to a two-mile area [...]
Hunt is on for SS Gairsoppa’s £70m silver hoard
An intriguing article from the Sunday Times: Hunt is on for SS Gairsoppa’s £70m silver hoard AN official attempt to find a ship containing £70m worth of silver, which was sunk during the second world war, is to be announced by the government tomorrow. It has teamed up with a private company in the hope of [...]
Unlocking the bloody history of the ship made famous by Turner, the Fighting Temeraire
Sam Willis has written what appears to be a fascinating book – Fighting Temeraire. J.M.W. Turner’s painting, The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up, hangs in the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square and was recently voted to be Britain’s favorite painting, by a landslide, in a BBC4 poll. Sam Willis, a naval [...]
Oceanbridge Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta turns 170, Feb 1, 2010
Oceanbridge Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta turns 170, Feb 1, 2010 On Monday, 1 February 2010, New Zealand’s oldest sporting event, the Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta will celebrate its 170th anniversary with a celebration of our maritime history and heritage on land and sea with a fleet of sail boats, classic yachts, tugboats and tall ship [...]
Crowley Establishing Flow of Relief Cargo Into Haiti
Crowley Establishing Flow of Relief Cargo Into Haiti Crowley Maritime Corporation, working under contract with the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), is unloading Haiti relief cargo in Rio Haina, Dominican Republic, today. Fifty six of the 68 20-foot containers of water and meals-ready-to-eat (MREs) will be trucked across the border into Haiti.
USS New York – Bad Welding and Failed Bearings
In November we posted about the USS New York’s commissioning in its namesake city. The new amphibious transport dock ship, the fifth of the San Antonio-class, was built with seven and a half tons of steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center cast for the ship’s bow. A recent spot check of the [...]
Schooner Amistad Sails for Haiti
While the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan arrived in Haiti yesterday and the hospital ship USNS Comfort arrived the day before, naval ships are not the only vessels sailing to aid the earthquake victims. The schooner Amistad is on her way bearing both supplies and a sense of history. The schooner Amistad , a replica of the slave ship on which the [...]
A New Attempt to Save the Clipper Ship City of Adelaide
More talks to save the fine old ship from being broken up. Only time will tell whether anyone will come up with the funds to rescue her. Fresh bid to salvage historic Scots ship
