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2012 Savannah Tall Ships Challenge May 3-7th
The 2012 Savannah Tall Ships Challenge is May 3-7 and will include a three-day festival featuring more than a dozen sailing vessels berthed on both the River Street and Hutchinson Island sides of the river. Click here for more details. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Savannah Tall Ships Challenge, Hutchinson Island, River Street
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Double-Decker Ferry Sinks in Brahmaputra River in North-East India – 200 Dead or Missing
A double-decker ferry carrying an estimated 350 people capsized, broke apart and sank in the Brahmaputra River in heavy weather. The ferry was traveling between Dhubri to Fakirganjan in Assam state and was reported to be overloaded with passengers and cargo, and carried … Continue reading
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Tagged Assam, Brahmaputra River, Double-Decker Ferry, India
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Titanic II ? Unsinkable? Australian Billionaire Clive Palmer Has Big Plans
On the heels of the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer has announced his plans to build a 21st-century replica of the Titanic and sail it from England to New York accompanied by the Chinese navy by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer, replica, Titanic II
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Someone Must be on Drugs – Ship Owner Sues Pharmacy in 2007 SF Bay Spill
You can’t make this stuff up. A container ship owner and ship manager are suing a California pharmacy for selling prescription drugs to a harbor pilot prior to an allision with a bridge five years ago. On a very foggy morning in … Continue reading
Updated: Search Suspended For Missing Tug Boat Captain
Updated: Sad news. Yesterday afternoon, the crew of the 91-foot tugboat, Steven Scott, called the Coast Guard to report that they hadn’t seen their captain for nearly an hour and believed that he had fallen overboard. This afternoon the US Coast … Continue reading
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Tagged 91-foot tugboat, Captain Brendan O'Leary, Marblehead, Rhode Island, Steven Scott
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Update: The Junk Free China on Her Way Back to Taiwan
In December, 2008, we posted about “A Junk at Risk.” The Free China, a historic century-old Fujian sailing junk, was on the verge of being scrapped. The junk made international headlines in 1955 when an inexperienced crew of five Chinese … Continue reading
Is the Restored Cutty Sark a Clucking, Grade A Turkey?
After a long commercial career, the 1869 composite clipper ship Cutty Sark became a museum ship in a drydock in Greenwich in 1954. Then in May 21, 2007, a fire broke out that burned a significant portion of the ship. After a 5 … Continue reading
No City for Old Tankers – Mary A. Whalen in the New York Times
There are over five hundred miles of waterfront in New York harbor. The Mary A. Whalen only needs around 200 feet of it to tie up, yet for the last six years, the historic tanker and PortSide New York, the non-profit educational … Continue reading
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Tagged Carolina Salguero, Mary A.Whalen, new york harbor, PortSide New York
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The Return of the Cutty Sark, Reopening April 26th
Here is a cute trailer announcing the reopening of the composite clipper ship Cutty Sark in her drydock in Greenwich, UK. The ship built in 1869, caught fire on May 21, 2007 and has undergone a full restoration. The ship … Continue reading
Trireme Olympias Stricken from London Olympics – Fears of Popularity and Bridge Jumpers
The image is wonderful to think about. At the start of the London Olympics, the trireme Olympias, with 170 of Britain’s finest rowers at the oars, was to proceed down the Thames bearing the Olympic flame. But it is not to be. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Greek Navy, London Olympics, Olympias, Olympic flame, trireme
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Update: Princess Cruises Regrets Not Rescuing Fisherman, Blames Breakdown in Communication
Princess Cruises said it deeply regrets that its ship the Star Princess passed by a fishing boat adrift in the Pacific Ocean and failing to rescue the dying men on board. The cruise line is blaming a “breakdown in communication,” claiming … Continue reading
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Tagged fishing boat, Princess Cruise Lines, Star Princess
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Did Cruise Ship, Star Princess, Ignore Drifting Boat in Distress Leaving Fishermen to Die?
In February, we posted about the rescue of the three fishermen, drifting in the Pacific, by the cruise ship, Seaborne Odyssey. There are now reports of a similar story with a tragically different outcome. Passengers aboard the cruise ship, Star Princess, are claiming that the ship ignored a drifting boat in distress in the Pacific off the Galapagos, leaving … Continue reading
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Tagged drifting fishing boat, Galapagos, Star Princess
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Large Reward for Whistle-blowing Engineer on M/V Aquarosa
When US Coast Guard inspectors came aboard the bulk carrier M/V Aquarosa in Baltimore in February of 2011, a junior engineer slipped them a note, which read, “I have sometheng to till you but secret.” The engineer, Salvatore Lopez, from the Philippines, had collected evidence of the illegal … Continue reading
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Tagged bulk carrier, M/V Aquarosa, magic pipe, Philippines, pollution, Salvatore Lopez, US Coast Guard, whistle-blower
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Indonesian Barquentine Dewaruci and Equadorian Barque Guayas in OpSail 2012
As we posted a few days ago, OpSail 2012 kicks off today in New Orleans. In addition to the USCG Cutter Eagle, two lesser known tall ships will be participating — Indonesian Navy’s steel three masted barquentine Dewaruci, and the Ecuadoran Navy’s steel three-masted … Continue reading
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Bolivia Posed to De-flag Iranian Controlled Ships
Bolivia is poised to de-flag fifteen ships linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) just weeks after these ships were flagged into the Bolivian registry. The ships had previously been registered in Malta and Cyprus. Facing international sanctions over its … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolivia, Cyprus, IRISL, Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, Malta, sanctions
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Photographs of Human Remains and the Fight Over What Remains of the Titanic
Very few of the bodies of the 1514 passengers and crews who died on the Titanic were ever recovered. Recently released photographs, which raise the question of whether or not here are human remains at the wreck site, have become central to a … Continue reading
