The Liverpool Sea Shanty Festival Returns Song to the Docks

Beginning today and running for two weekends, April 29 – May , and May 7-8, the Liverpool Sea Shanty Festival will return boisterous songs to the docks on the Merseyside.    Singers from New York and the Netherlands will be joining in. Sounds of the … Continue reading

Clocks from the Monitor’s Engine Room and the Lusitania’s Captain

Thanks to Alaric Bond for passing along two articles about historic maritime clocks.   The conservators at the Mariner’s Museum have restored the engine room clock from the USS Monitor which sank in 1862.   On the other side of the Atlantic, … Continue reading