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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Navy Trademarks “Navy Seals” and “Seal Team”
Last week we posted about Disney filing three trademark applications for the rights to the phrase “SEAL Team 6.” Proving that they are only a step or two behind Mickey Mouse, the US Navy has now trademarked the phrases … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, Navy SEALs, SEAL Team 6, trademark, US Navy
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The USS New York Returns to New York for Fleet Week
Tomorrow the USS New York returns to the Hudson River to help kick off Fleet Week New York. The USS New York (LPD-21) is the fifth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship and is the seventh ship of the United States … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships
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Save our Ships Rally at the South Street Seaport
I was out of town so I could not attend the Save our Ships Rally at the South Street Seaport yesterday. Fortunately foo those of us who couldn’t make it, there are some great photos at Will van Dorp’s Tugster blog, the Save … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships
Tagged Peter Stanford, Save our Ships Rally, South Street Seaport Museum
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Happy National Maritime Day 2011
Happy National Maritime Day! The day has been celebrated in the US since 1933. After World War II US flag shipping accounted for over 40% of the world’s total fleet. Currently the US ranks around 10th in the world by … Continue reading
Shell’s Prelude FLNG to be the World’s Largest Floating Offshore Platform
Shell is on its way to building the largest floating offshore facility in the world for its Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Project in Australia. The FLNG facility will be 488 meters long and will weigh around 600,000 tonnes – … Continue reading
Celebrate National Maritime Day 2011 Aboard the N.S. SAVANNAH
In the US, National Maritime Day is May 22nd. The day was chosen to commemorate the departure from Savannah, Georgia of the American steamship, SS Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, on May 24, 1819. To celebrate National Maritime Day, the Baltimore Port … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships
Tagged National Maritime Day, NS Savannah, SS Savannah
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Preview of MaineSail Magazine
A preview of MaineSail Magazine, the first issue of which will be available for download June 1st, 2011 at www.themainesail.com. Looks beautiful.
SURGEON’S MATE by Linda Collison – A Review
Patrick McPherson is a 19 year surgeon’s mate in the Royal Navy. By all appearances, he is an upstanding young man with a promising future. The dark secret that the young mate carries is that he is indeed, a she. … Continue reading
Posted in Newbooks, Reviews, Seastories
Tagged Linda Collison, Star-Crossed, Surgeon's Mate
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Six Unknown Shipwrecks Discovered in Virgin Islands Survey
A recent NOAA survey of the Caribbean off the southern coasts of the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. John and St. Thomas and off eastern Puerto Rico discovered six previously unknown shipwrecks. 6 Uncharted Shipwrecks Discovered in Caribbean
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships
Tagged eastern Puerto Rico, NOAA survey, Shipwrecks, U.S. Virgin Islands
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The Schooner Bluenose II and the Ax that Never Wears Out
There is an old saying about an ax that never wears out so long as you keep replacing the head and the handle. But what happens if you replace the head and handle at the same time? Is it the … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships
Tagged Bluenose, Bluenose II, Canadian fishing schooner
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Rally to Save the South Street Seaport this Sunday
Following up on the previous news that the current board of the financially troubled South Street Seaport Museum is being replaced, that the Attorney General has barred the removal of the museum’s historic ships from New York harbor and that new funding is being arranged, the Save our Seaport … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships
Tagged Peking, Rally to Save our Seaport, Save our Seaport, South Street Seaport Museum
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China takes a Great Leap Forward in the Concrete Carrier Arms Race
As we posted last week, the US Navy has five times more aircraft carrier flight deck capacity than the rest of the world combined. Nevertheless the Chinese have leapt ahead in the construction of a concrete air craft carrier on … Continue reading
Joseph Conrad, the Tusitala, the Three Hours for Lunch Club and James Farrell
On May 25th, in addition to other items in their collection, the Seaman’s Church Institute is auctioning off a letter written by Joseph Conrad in 1923 to the “owners and ship’s company of the Tusitala, ” in which he sends … Continue reading
Posted in History, Lore of the Sea, Ships
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Talking with Dolphins by Computer Translator?
Roughly a year ago I went skin diving with dolphins in Honduras. We were told that the dolphins liked to play catch with eel grass. I dove to the bottom, pulled up a handful of eel grass and held … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Lore of the Sea
Tagged Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry, dolphin, two-way communication
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