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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
Update: Katie Spotz Completes her Row Across the Atlantic
Last December we posted about Katie Spotz’s attempt to row across the Atlantic alone. Yesterday she arrived in Georgetown, Guyana, in South America, after 70 days 5 hours 22 minutes in the Atlantic. Spotz, 22, is now the youngest person to cross an ocean in a rowboat, and the first American to row solo [...]
Dog skeleton from Mary Rose displayed in Portsmouth
One salty dog, indeed. Thanks to David Hayes for passing the article along.
Dog skeleton from Mary Rose displayed in Portsmouth
A dog which sailed aboard the Mary Rose ship 465 years ago is to take up residence in the Mary Rose Museum at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
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Happy Pi Day (3.14) and a Toast to Hakudo Maru
Some call today Pi day, as the first three digits of the date (3.14) are the first three digits of the constant pi used to calculate the circumference and area of a circle. Which makes it a good day to raise a toast to Hakudo Maru.
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At 95 years old, Newport News-built MV Doulos again avoids scrapyard
The 58 year old, SS United States, built at Newport News, may be at risk of being scrapped but it now appears that the MV Doulos, the world’s oldest ocean-going passenger vessel, may not be making a trip to the breakers yard any time soon. Her days as a passenger vessel are over but she [...]
The Maritime Art of Patrick O’Brien – No, not that Patrick O’Brian
The U.S. Naval Academy Museum will be hosting a large exhibition of paintings by Patrick O’Brien through April 30th. No, not that Patrick O’Brian, Patrick O’Brien the Baltimore based maritime artist. The Annapolis Marine Art Gallery will be hosting a reception in celebration of the museum exhibition — Saturday, April 10th, from 2 – [...]
Bad News and Slightly Less Bad News about Somali Piracy
The monsoons have ended which means that it is pirate season again off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden. The bad news is that it is now estimated that piracy off Somalia is costing the international shipping industry at least $100 million a year. The only slightly less bad news is [...]
Updates: Comfort Sails Home, Jewel of Muscat Sails on, and Bounty Reanactors get Ready to Sail
A few updates on previous posts: The USNS Comfort, the Navy hospital ship deployed to Haiti after the earthquake is on her way home: Navy hospital ship to begin journey home from Haiti
The Jewel of Muscat, the replica of the a 9th-century Tang Treasure ship, which we posted about in January, is now over 1500 [...]
Gribbles? A Biofuel Breakthrough?
Gribbles? A wood eating marine pest may lead to a breakthrough in biofuels? What’s next? Teredo worms as a cure for cancer? An intriguing article from the Times. Thanks to Alaric Bond for the reference.
‘Gribble’ marine pest may be key to biofuel breakthrough, say scientists
A marine pest could be the key to a biofuel breakthrough, say [...]
Still Fighting over the Battleship Graf Spee
There is an interesting ongoing conflict over the salvaging of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee which was scuttled in the River Plate in 1939. A Uruguayan businessman has been salving parts of the Graf Spee for the last ten years but has been blocked from displaying or selling part of the ship by political [...]
USS Dewey and the Olympia
I am not sure if it is irony or merely a confirmation that Faulkner was right – the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. Not long after the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia announced that it didn’t have the money to care for the cruiser Olympia, (or even the money to dredge the channel to tow her away,) the US [...]
BBC videocast on the City of Adelaide
We had previously posted about a BBC videocast of a documentary segment about attempts to save the composite clipper City of Adelaide. The videocast was available to UK residents only. Thanks to David Hayes for pointing out that the segment has now appeared on Youtube. Worth watching.
SCARF City of Adelaide Documentary – Inside [...]
Tsunami warning came too late for Robinson Crusoe Island
In early February we observed the anniversary of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk from the tiny island Mas a Tierra, in the Juan Fernandez archipelago off the coast of Chile. Selkirk would be the model for Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Mas a Tierra would become known as Robinson Crusoe Island. Tragically, the island has been devastated by a tsunami following the [...]
Centuries-old Baltic shipwrecks found
Centuries-old Baltic shipwrecks found
A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks — some of them unusually well-preserved — have been discovered in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany, Swedish experts said Tuesday.
The oldest wreck probably dates back to medieval times and could be up to 800 years old, while the [...]
France captures 35 ‘pirates’ in three days off the Somali coast
France captures 35 ‘pirates’ in three days off the Somali coast
The French Navy has captured 35 suspected pirates in three days of operations off the coast of Somalia — the biggest haul in the two years since EU naval ships started patrolling the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.
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New ferry to start Tonga service in November
Early last August the Tongan ferry, Princess Ashika, sank with a presumed loss over seventy lives. See our previous posts - Princess Akisha. A new ferry, the Olovaha, for the route is being built in Japan, with Japanese funding and is expected to go into service in November. Until them New Zealand has donated a [...]
