Couture superyacht brings high fashion to the high seas
March 16, 2010
I will admit to being easily amused, but I found this to be very funny. For those with more money than sense, here is a “couture superyacht” designed by a fashion designer. I would worry that it might be more fashionable than seaworthy but it does look rather conventional overall. (As a naval architect, I promise [...]
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Update: HMS Superb – Royal Navy Court Martial
March 16, 2010
Last January we posted about the the HMS Superb, a British nuclear submarine, which in 2008 crashed into a massive stone pinnacle under the Red Sea. (See Submarines Navigating Badly.) Now the commander and two other officers have been severely reprimanded by a Royal Navy court martial. Apparently all concerned just misread the chart.
Commander [...]
At 95 years old, Newport News-built MV Doulos again avoids scrapyard
March 14, 2010
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 [...]
Read MoreUpdates: Comfort Sails Home, Jewel of Muscat Sails on, and Bounty Reanactors get Ready to Sail
March 13, 2010
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 [...]
Still Fighting over the Battleship Graf Spee
March 12, 2010
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 [...]
Read MoreUSS Dewey and the Olympia
March 11, 2010
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 [...]
Read MoreBBC videocast on the City of Adelaide
March 11, 2010
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.
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Centuries-old Baltic shipwrecks found
March 10, 2010
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 [...]
New ferry to start Tonga service in November
March 9, 2010
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 [...]
Read MoreHull trawler, Arctic Corsair, joins SS Great Britain and Royal Yacht on Historic Ships Register
March 7, 2010
Hull trawler joins SS Great Britain and Royal Yacht on Historic Ships Register
An historic trawler berthed in Hull’s Museum Quarter has joined the ss Great Britain, HMS Victory and the Royal Yacht Britannia on the list of the nation’s most treasured historic vessels.
Arctic Corsair, Hull’s last sidewinder trawler, is now listed on the National Register [...]
3D Laser Scanning the Hold of the Charles W. Morgan
March 6, 2010
The Mystic Seaport Museum has posted a fascinating video of the 3D laser scanning of the hold of the whaler Charles W. Morgan along with commentary on how they are using the technology to record the original construction details of the historic ship. Definately worth a look and a listen.
Laser Scanning the Hold
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Read MoreSpirit of Mystery Returning Home
March 6, 2010
A year ago we posted about the “Voyage of the Spirit of Mystery,” the recreation of an epic voyage by seven Cornishmen, several of whom had never been out of sight of land, who set sail in 1854 bound for the gold fields of Australia in Mystery, a 37′ Mounts Bay Lugger. Adventurer Pete Goss [...]
Read MoreWomen and Children First – Time Permitting
March 5, 2010
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences considers the sinking of two well known ships, the Titanic and the Lusitania, and looks at who made it to the lifeboats and who was left behind. Both had a similar number of passengers and a similar loss of life. The big difference between [...]
Read MoreConcordia Investigation Update
March 4, 2010
In addition to the investigation underway by the Barbados Maritime Ship Registry on behalf of the government of Barbados, where the Concordia was registered, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada has decided to conduct its own independent investigation into the capsizing and sinking of the sail training ship.
Transportation board to probe sinking of Concordia
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11th Annual Ghost Ships Festival in Milwaukee on March 5th & 6th
March 4, 2010
11th Annual Ghost Ships Festival 2010
The Ghost Ships Festival is Wisconsin’s largest trade show devoted to Scuba Diving and Great Lakes Maritime History. Exhibits, workshops, and presentations cover just about every aspect of Great Lakes maritime history and scuba diving.
Milwaukee’s Ghost Ships Festival
Thanks to Alaric Bond for the heads-up.
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