The US Navy keeps trying to find new and different ways to blow things up. Last December it demonstrated an electromagnetic railgun potentially capable of hitting a target 100 miles away. Recently, it has used a a solid-state laser, aboard the USS … Continue reading
Category Archives: Lore of the Sea
It is amazing what you can see passing through New York harbor. Those awake in the hours before dawn this morning may have seen a highway bridge under tow down the East River around the Battery and across the … Continue reading
For those in the area this looks like fun. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and MLive.com are sponsoring a two-night stay for two in the restored 1923 U.S. Coast Guard crews quarters at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Also included is a … Continue reading
One hundred and eleven years ago today the US Navy accepted its first successful submarine, the USS Holland. The previous November, in New York harbor, the Holland passed the Navy’s tests. She ran for one mile underwater, surfaced, fired a torpedo then … Continue reading
Great footage of the Lynx from TheSailingChannel.TV TALL SHIPS: THE PRIVATEER LYNX … Continue reading
Hundreds of dead dolphins and sea turtles are washing ashore on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. No one knows exactly what is killing them though many point to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill of a year ago. In the mean … Continue reading
Reports now indicate that Ryan Donovan, 22, a sailor on HMS Astute, burst into the submarine control room and opened fire with an SA80 assault rifle yesterday, killing the ship’s weapons engineering officer, Lt. Cmdr. Ian Molyneux, 36, and wounding a second officer, Lieutenant Commander … Continue reading
After dabbling with space ships, Richard Branson has turned to the deep oceans. The Virgin Oceanic team will be diving to the deepest ocean depths in a one man submarine designed by Graham Hawkes. The submarine has an operating depth … Continue reading
For all the damage that the Japanese tsunami of March 11th left behind on shore, it also carried considerable wreckage out to sea. this week the Japanese Coast Guard warned ships to look out for and avoid the floating … Continue reading
The BBC is reporting that one sailor has been killed and another seriously injured on the Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Astute. A member of the crew is reported to have shot two of his fellow sailors before being overpowered. HMS Astute, the Navy’s newest and most advanced submarine, is docked at … Continue reading
Fire Island is a thirty mile long barrier island on the south shore of Long Island, east of the entrance of New York harbor. Last week, Le Papillon, a 50′ steel pinky schooner, went ashore on the beach on Fire … Continue reading
After 66 days at sea, Anthony Smith and a crew of three friends arrived in St. Maarten on a voyage from the Canary Islands on the raft “An-Tiki“. Smith celebrated his 85th birthday during the voyage. The crew of the An-Tiki … Continue reading
My wife and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary in a week by having dinner at Le Bernardin. I had proposed in the Le Bernardin, when the restaurant was still in Paris, so it has always seemed a great place to celebrate anniversaries. … Continue reading
The Tall Ship Elissa was built was built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1877 by Alexander Hall and Co. She has been fully restored and is currently sailing out of Galveston, Texas. She recently successfully completed drydocking and inspection. A small piece of … Continue reading
A boat overloaded with migrants sailing from Libya capsized south south of the island of Lampedusa , off Sicily, early today. Fifteen are confirmed dead and between 130 and 250 are believed to be missing. Migrant boat sinks off Italy, up to 250 … Continue reading
A disturbing report from New Zealand on abusive conditions for seamen aboard chartered fishing vessels in New Zealand waters. Slavery at sea exposed Alerted to terrible conditions on foreign fishing vessels after nearly 30 people lost their lives, Michael Field began asking questions. … Continue reading
HMS Bounty is making ready to sail from San Juan, Puerto Rico tomorrow to begin this season’s European voyage. She will be calling at ports in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, Germany and Russia, before returning to the US around October. For her … Continue reading
Recent articles on the power of the tsunami that recently struck Japan say a lot about both the power of the tsunami waves and the challenges of trying to cope with a constant threat from the ocean. Japan’s first line … Continue reading
After over two years and three failed searches, an international team, including specialists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in partnership with French authorities, have located the primary wreckage of Air France Flight 447 which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on May … Continue reading
Laura Dekker, the 15 year old Dutch sailor who is sailing rather leisurely alone around the world on her yacht Guppy, has been by all appearances handling the sailing part of her journey without too much difficulty. If she completes here multi-stop circumnavigation prior … Continue reading