Last Saturday, January 20, a series of massive storm-driven waves struck the island of Roi-Namur in the Marshall Islands causing considerable flooding and damage to the US Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll (USAG–KA).
A video circulating on social media showed water smashing into a dining facility at USAG–KA as a series of unexpected waves surged across the low-lying island.
The island of Roi-Namur is the second-largest island of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The US Army facility supports the US Space and Missile Defense Command’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (RTS). RTS serves as a space and missile defense test range for the Department of Defense.
Encouraging news! Following a 
In 1986, a massive iceberg, more than three times larger than New York City, calved off West Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and immediately grounded on the floor of the Weddell Sea, where it remained stuck for almost four decades.
UK Royal Navy minehunter 
A new analysis has concluded that a large, grassy hill in Norway known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound was likely the site of a pre-Viking ship burial. What is fascinating is that the site was excavated three times during the late 18th century and no one found the ship within the mound. 
Houthi anti-ship missiles struck two more commercial ships in the Red Sea off Yemen in the last two days. There were no reports of injuries on either ship.
An updated repost — a look back at the twin miracles on the Hudson from fifteen years ago today. On January 15, 2009, 
The 
Toward the end of December, the US Navy’s 
This year, the US and Royal navies have fallen short of meeting their recruiting goals, leaving both navies with more ships’ billets than they have personnel to fill them.
Way back in 2015, we posted – 
We recently 
The State of Hawaii is moving closer to removing the historic four-masted iron-hulled ship 
Here is a repost of wonderful sea story suitable for New Year’s Day. It also appears to be more or less true.