Festival Sails into San Diego Bay Today
September 2, 2010
The 2010 Port of San Diego Festival of Sail kicks off today with a parade of tall ships on San Diego Bay at 11 a.m. The festival runs runs through September 6th and features more than 20 tall ships and other vessels from around the world, including the Californian, a replica of the original [...]
Read MoreBritish and French to Share Carriers?
September 1, 2010
What would Lord Nelson have thought of this? There were various news reports out recently that the British and the French may share aircraft carriers. UK, France closer to carrier sharing deal Britain and France are moving closer to a deal to share aircraft carriers, a British newspaper reported Tuesday — a move that could save the one-time [...]
Read MoreBrig Niagara Brings Unwelcome Stowaways to Isle Royale National Park
August 29, 2010
Another article about stowaways, though of a completely different sort – zebra mussels on the Brig Niagara. Earlier this month, the Niagara, a historically accurate reconstruction of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victorious 1813 flagship, visited Isle Royale, an island National Park in northwestern Lake Superior under terms of a special use permit that required that the ship be free [...]
Read MoreClipper Ship City of Adelaide to be Sent to Australia
August 28, 2010
Great news! The oldest just barely surviving composite clipper ship in the world, the City of Adelaide appears likely to be moved to Australia to its namesake city, Adelaide. The ship, which is currently at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, Scotland, has been threatened by scrapping as the museum lacked the fund to care for the ship. The announcement, made [...]
Read MoreAtlantic Container Line to Take Delivery of Prison Containers
August 28, 2010
One of the ways that stowaways can get aboard liner ships these days is to hide in cargo containers. Atlantic Container Lines will be using containers for a related if rather different purpose. The shipping line will soon take delivery of five containers converted to temporary prison cells to hold stowaways found aboard their ships. [...]
Read More“Sisters Under Sail” – Schooner Unicorn at Tall Ships Chicago
August 27, 2010
Earlier this week we posted about Tall Ships Chicago 2010. Among the roughly 20 tall ships participating is the 118-foot topsail schooner Unicorn whose crew includes six Chicago-area girls from the “Sisters Under Sail” program. “Adventure of a Lifetime” is About More Than Sails, Knots The ship’s owner had four girls of her own that she [...]
Read MoreCamden’s Windjammer Festival Starts Friday
August 25, 2010
Camden, Maine’s Windjammer Festival starts Friday, September 3rd, and runs through Sunday. Camden’s harbor always seemed to me to be a windjammer festival on virtually any summer day so this gathering of the Maine Windjammer fleet and the dockside Maritime Heritage Fair should be quite an event. Unfortunately the festivities begin with a mock pirate attack on Camden harbor, which seems to be the obligatory [...]
Read MoreHMS Cassandra, HMS Myrtle and HMS Gentian, Sunk in the Russia Revolution, Located
August 24, 2010
Ninety years on, locations of Royal Navy warships sunk in Russian Revolution are found The wrecks of three British warships sunk more than 90 years ago – seeking to prevent the Bolshevik Revolution from spreading West – have been located in the Baltic Sea by the Estonian Navy. HMS Cassandra, HMS Myrtle and HMS Gentian [...]
Read MoreBon Voyage SAIL Amsterdam 2010
August 23, 2010
The municipality of Amsterdam has a population of just under 800,000 people. Amsterdam’s population almost doubled this weekend as SAIL 2010 attracted roughly 1.5 million visitors. Some final thoughts on the festival, which ended this morning, by Marijke Peters of Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Bon voyage Sail 2010 SAIL 2010 ended today with the tall ships leaving the Dutch capital Amsterdam [...]
Read MoreTall Ships Chicago 2010
August 23, 2010
Tis the season for tall ships festivals. Tomorrow, Tall Ships Chicago 2010 begins in the Windy City at the Navy Pier. The event runs through August 29th and is described as, “Twenty Ships. Six Days. Once-in-a-Lifetime. ” Tall Ships Chicago 2010 – Event Overview Navy Pier proudly welcomes more than20 majestic and historic tall ships from around [...]
Read MoreOnline Tour of NS Savanah – World’s first nuclear powered merchant ship
August 23, 2010
In 1819, the SS Savannah was first steamship in the world to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Despite this accomplishment, the Savannah was a commercial failure and was converted back to sail shortly after returning from Europe. It is somehow fitting that one hundred and forty years later in 1959, the first nuclear powered cargo ship would be named after the [...]
Read MoreFirst Large Tanker to Transit Russia’s Northeast Passage
August 20, 2010
Interesting news from various sources on the first large tanker to transit Russia’s Northeast Passage through the Arctic. The Barents Observer reports that the “100,000 tons tanker Baltica left Murmansk on Saturday loaded with gas condensate for China. This is the first time a high-tonnage tanker takes the Northern Sea Route from Europe to Asia.” [...]
Read MoreSAIL Amsterdam 2010
August 20, 2010
A wonderful video about the ongoing festival.
Read MoreTrouble on the Delaware – Three Historic Ships at Risk
August 19, 2010
The day after Philadelphia’s tall ship, the newly repaired, Gazela, arrived in New York harbor, an article in this morning’s New York Times focussed on the three historic ships in trouble on the Delaware River, in or near Philadelphia – the Olympia, the battleship New Jersey and the passenger liner SS United States. Sadly, the arguably most historic of the three [...]
Read MoreBarquentine Gazela Arrives in New York Harbor
August 19, 2010
Philadelphia’s tall ship, the barquentine Gazela Primeiro, arrived in New York harbor yesterday, on her way to PortSide New York. (See our previous post – The Gazela at Portside with Vaudeville and Pirates – Oh My!) The classic ship will available for daytime tours starting today through Monday the 23rd. By night, the ship will host [...]
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