The Curious Engineer

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December 2010

  1. Happy New Year – New York & Key West Style: Crystal Ball, Conch Shell, Pirate Wench & Drag Queen
  2. More than 600 people aboard ice-trapped vessels in Sea of Okhotsk
  3. A Tug’s-eye View of the Blizzard
  4. Captain & Chief Engineer of Tanker Aegean Angel Killed in Heavy Weather in the Atlantic
  5. Ten Years of Cruise Ship Fires and Carnival Confetti
  6. Dutch freighter Stadiongracht aground off Rauma, Finland
  7. South Street Seaport Museum May Sell Off Historic Schooner Lettie G Howard
  8. The Last Voyage of the Lakonia – Deadly Christmas Cruise
  9. Remembering Sailors at Sea over the Holidays
  10. Greetings from the North Pole
  11. A Glimpse at the New Mary Rose Museum
  12. The 12 Plankton of Christmas
  13. Abby Sunderland’s “Unsinkable: A Young Woman’s Courageous Battle on the High Seas”
  14. 500 Seafarers held hostage by pirates at Christmas
  15. Secrets of the Pliosaurs Revealed by CT scanner
  16. USS Pegasus and the Littoral Combat Ships
  17. Did the Fixed CO2 System on the Carnival Splendor Fail?
  18. Coast Guard Videos of the Year 2010 – Vote for your Favorite
  19. Lighthouse Ice Sculpture – Welcome to Winter
  20. Laura Dekker Arrives in St. Maarten
  21. First Solstice Lunar Eclipse in 456 years
  22. Holy-calamari, Batman! Flying squid!
  23. Richard Pendered – Helped Break “Shark” Enigma Cipher And to Sink the Scharnhorst
  24. Brigantine Søren Larsen Larsen Available for Sale by Syndication
  25. What is AMVER?
  26. HMS Temeraire, USS Olympia, and the American Racer – A Few Thoughts on Ship Preservation
  27. Second Leg of the Velux Five Oceans Race Underway
  28. Statue Cruises fuel cell powered hybrid ferry for New York harbor
  29. Repairs delayed on Carnival Splendor – Idle Speculation
  30. Tragedy on Christmas Island – Asylum Seekers Die in Shipwreck
  31. 300th anniversary of the Nottingham Galley wreck on Boon Island
  32. Armed Japanese Coast Guard to Face off against Sea Shepherd “Godzilla”
  33. From the Onion : Abby Sunderland – Concocted History’s Most Extreme Plan To Get Out Of A Summer Job
  34. James Craig Sails Again
  35. Inger Klein Olsen, First Female Cunard Captain
  36. Deepwater Pathfinder runs aground, ironically enough
  37. Russell Crowe calls for Master and Commander sequel
  38. Five dead, 17 missing after Korean fishing vessel, No.1 In Sung, sinks in Southern Ocean
  39. Violent weather in the Eastern Mediterranean – bulk carrier Adriatic sinks and Brilliance of the Seas battered
  40. Cakewalk – Largest Yacht Built in US Since J.P. Morgan’s Corsair IV
  41. 2000 year-old Antikythera Mechanism made out of Legos?
  42. Clipper City of Adelaide being made ready for trip home
  43. Navy Electromagnetic Railgun Annihilates Targets 100 Miles Away In Six Minutes
  44. Wikileaks, Russian Tanks and the Ro/Ro Faina – the Pirates were Right
  45. 2010: Moby Dick – Straight to DVD Must See ?
  46. Panama Canal closes due to flooding
  47. Wrens set to serve on Royal Navy submarines
  48. The Unsinkable HMAS Adelaide: Costs Sink Scuttling?
  49. Cruise ship Clelia II Limping Home After Encounter with Wave in Drake Passage
  50. An Old Problem, Warnings Unheeded – 3 Ships Sunk, 44 Dead in 39 Days
  51. Titantic eaten by bacteria while shipwrecked fleets in Baltic well preserved
  52. Update: Raw Faith Sinks – Crew Rescued
  53. The Original Pearl Harbor Attack Radio Emergency Broadcast from Washington DC
  54. Tall Ship Sailing on EBay – the Other Perfect Holiday Gift?
  55. Dr. Wubbo Ockels on the Sinking of his Sailyacht Ecolution
  56. Memorial and Dedication of New Visitors Center at Pearl Harbor
  57. Meet Sailor and Author John Rousmaniere at Mystic Seaport
  58. A Redcoat Storms Aboard Old Ironsides!
  59. Tupaia, Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator, by Joan Druett
  60. Update: Disabled bulker MV Golden Seas under tow to Dutch Harbor
  61. Not Swords into Plowshores but Marine Mines into Furniture
  62. MV Hong Wei, Nickel Ore Carrier Sinks, 10 Sailors Missing
  63. MV Golden Seas Struggles To Avoid the Aleutian Islands
  64. Ockels’ Ecolution to be Repaired
  65. HMS Victory in the Snow
  66. The Star Spangled Banner and the Search for HMS Terror
  67. HMS Dasher Memorial
  68. Thad Koza, Tall Ships Photographer, Dies at 69
  69. Correction: Ecolution, Innovative Sailing Yacht Owned by Dr. Wubbo Ockels, Sinks
  70. The Pegasus Preservation Project Celebrates it 10th Birthday with the Rusty Rivet Awards
  71. Maersk Ready to Order Malaccamax Containerships – 18,000 TEU ?
  72. American Indian Sailed to Europe With Vikings?

November 2010

  1. Drunken Passenger Drops Anchor on Cruise Ship MS Ryndam ! ? !
  2. Preserving the Battleship Texas and Problems with the Laffey again
  3. Karim-1 Sinks after Collision with Dutch Tanker Alessandro DP, Six Missing
  4. RCCL’s Allure of the Seas Christened by a Cartoon Character
  5. Incredible Year for the Brig Niagara – Awards, Fundraising and Movie Roles !
  6. Nautic – The 50th Annual Paris Boat Show
  7. Stealth Sub Jimmy Carter Ready to Spy on North Korea
  8. Chesapeake Light Craft Sells its 20,000th Kit !
  9. Mystery Ship Beneath the Streets of Stockholm
  10. Cmdr. Andrew Coles of HMS Astute Relieved of Command
  11. Update: Boozy teens’ midnight trip goes 1300km astray
  12. HMS Invincible For Sale – the Perfect Holiday Gift?
  13. Pirates (OK, Not Real Pirates) Drop Anchor in Key West
  14. Pirates Who Attacked US Navy Ship Convicted, While French Command Ship is Attacked Again
  15. Thanksgiving at Sea – Holiday Roundoup
  16. At TEDX: Jorne Langelaan, The new age of sail
  17. Three Teenagers Found Alive after Fifty Days adrift in Pacific Ocean
  18. Interview with Brad Van Liew, Winner of the First Leg of the Velux 5 Oceans
  19. After 67 years, the truth of HMS Dasher tragedy is revealed
  20. Sea Shepherd Farce Continues with New Toy Boat and Movie Star
  21. The Big U to become a dockside casino? What are the odds?
  22. Tasting the Shipwreck Champagne and Brewing Shipwreck Beer
  23. Minsento’s Deep Green Underwater Kite
  24. Fire on the Carnival Splendor – What did it cost?
  25. HMS Ark Royal on her Final Voyage Home
  26. “Arctic Adventures Aboard the Wanderbird”
  27. The Silent Spill – Exxon Reaches Settlement Over Newtown Creek Oil Spill
  28. Cruiser Olympia to Stay Open, At Least For Now
  29. Falls of Clyde – Video Tour & Interview & Have You Voted Yet?
  30. Christmas by the Sea at Mystic Seaport
  31. SS Great Britain’s ‘significant’ new maritime library
  32. Dive to the Titanic from your Desktop
  33. What secrets lie in Sydney’s ship cemetery?
  34. Tacoma Tallships Festival is dead – Australian Wooden Boat Festival on its way February 2011
  35. Van Liew wins 1st leg of Velux 5 Oceans Round the World Race
  36. Donald McNarry – Master of “Extreme” Miniature Shipbuilding
  37. Laura Dekker Resumes her Sail Around the World Alone
  38. British Sailors, Paul and Rachel Chandler, Freed by Somali Pirates
  39. Why did the Carnival Splendor go dark?
  40. Robert Louis Stevenson, Tusitala & Creator of Long John Silver
  41. Smoke on the Water – A Post from Carnival Cruise Director’s Blog
  42. Search Continues for Missing Crew from Bulk Carrier Nasco Diamond
  43. Bernard Cornwell’s The Fort – A Review
  44. Canada’s Naval History – a New Online Exhibit Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Canada’s Navy
  45. Remembering Merchant Mariners on Veterans Day
  46. Whose Missile was it? Was it a Missile?
  47. Carnival Splendor Update – Tugs, Flush Toilets and Spam
  48. Edmund Fitzgerald – 35 Years Later, the Mystery, the Song and the Survivors
  49. 3D Imagery of the A.J. Goddard in Lake Laberge
  50. Carnival Splendor Catches Fire Off Mexico, Ship Dead in the Water
  51. New Novel by William C. Hammond – For Love of Country
  52. Whales found dead on Donegal beach
  53. Last Day to Reserve Tickets for OysterFest 2010!
  54. Concordia: Tall Ship Down on CBC’s Land & Sea
  55. Update: Gipsy Moth IV to stay in Britain
  56. Virtual Port Holes on the Disney Dream
  57. Record Ransoms paid to Somali Pirates for MV Samho Dream & MV Golden Blessing
  58. Noorderlicht – Summer Nordic Cruiser & Winter Ice Hotel
  59. Artists Submissions for the “Art of the Boat”
  60. Singlehanded Ocean Racing for Web-Potatoes
  61. Andy Irons, three-time world champion surfer, dead at 32
  62. “Love, Love” – Disaster, Art or Just Fun?
  63. Fifth Annual Remembering Fulton Fish Market Art Exhibit 2010
  64. New Biography of Joshua Slocum by Geoffrey Wolff
  65. New York’s Graveyard of Ships on TV and Radio
  66. HMS Victory to replace Trident and Ark Royal
  67. 4th Mumbai International Match Race Begins Today
  68. The Famous Sailing Barge Cambria Reborn
  69. Teenage Trainees from brig Fryderyk Chopin Safely Ashore

October 2010

  1. Tall Ships 2011 Calendar by Thad Koza
  2. Bulgarian Women Now Allowed on Bulgarian Submarines, if They Had Any in Service
  3. Vote for the Falls of Clyde !!!
  4. Fryderyk Chopin, Polish Training Vessel, loses masts in force 9 gale
  5. The International Sail Training & Tall Ships Conference 2010
  6. Halloween Ghost Ship Roundup
  7. Maine Maritime Museum Kids Pirates Party
  8. Military ammunition discovered under Seattle cruise ship terminal
  9. Elderly woman, daughter find incredible ocean treasure
  10. The Mystery of the Novorossiysk
  11. Honor Frost – Pioneer of Underwater Archaeology
  12. Ooops, the Blocks Don’t Fit – Construction Glitch hits $8bn Aussie Navy Project
  13. Factory Fishing Ship Athena on Fire in the Atlantic
  14. Robert Bourne, Radioman in the Battle Between Navy Blimp and German sub
  15. Ship Rams Mark the Site of Ancient Mediterranean Sea Battle
  16. MV Beluga Fortune Foils Pirates, MV York Not so Fortunate
  17. Royal Caribbean Opens L’Ecole Nouvelle Royal Caribbean in Haiti
  18. Could a rusty coin re-write Chinese-African history?
  19. Replacement Ferry for Princess Ashika and Another Ferry Tragedy in Indonesia
  20. New Russian Masts on HMS Belfast – The Last Convoy Escort
  21. HMS Astute Update
  22. Model of HMS Victory carved from HMS Victory
  23. HMS Astute: British Nuclear Submarine Aground off Skye
  24. Trafalgar Day plus One – the Smallest Royal Navy Since Henry VIII
  25. South China Braces for “Super-Typhoon” Megi
  26. Conrad on Nelson at Trafalgar
  27. Horatio Nelson ‘was French football captain’, say children
  28. Eyewitness to Trafalgar 205 Years Ago Today
  29. An Ill-fated Cruise for the Costa Classica
  30. Attempts to Preserve the Prehistoric Hasholme Boat Fail So Far
  31. Patton’s Schooner “When and If” to be Sold
  32. New UK Aircraft Carrier Never to Carry Planes and to Sail to Lay-up?
  33. HMS Ark Royal to be Scrapped Early?
  34. Slippery Ships That Float on Air?
  35. Brooklyn Navy Yard Visitors Center to Open in 2011
  36. King’s Point Summerwind Wins Chesapeake Bay Great Schooner Race
  37. Cash-strapped Schooner Virginia appears dead in the water
  38. The Velux 5 Oceans Eco 60, an “affordable” ocean racer?
  39. Man O’War Gunpowder Rum – Explosive Fire Water
  40. Rogue Wave, 1905, and the Squarerigger British Isles
  41. Blog Action Day – Talking About the Tough Problems: Ocean Acidification
  42. On the SA Agulhas, All Woman Crew Makes History
  43. Blog Action Day 2010 – Water
  44. Model Mayflower Fashioned from Actual Ship’s Timber
  45. 21st Annual Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race
  46. Happy Birthday US Navy – Whenever and whereaver the place and time may be
  47. Tracking Orcas by Zeppelin on the Airship Eureka
  48. Collision between Greek tanker Mindoro and Cypriot container ship Jork Ranger
  49. Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition at the Mall Gallery
  50. Wind Power and Hot Air – Cape Wind Still in Doubt as Google Shows Some Backbone
  51. Happy Columbus Day – Thoughts on What Columbus Was and Was Not
  52. Fairtransport and the Brigantine Tres Hombres
  53. OPT PowerBuoys on the Grid in Hawaii
  54. 10/10/10 : Goodbye to the Netherlands Antilles, Hello Curaçao and Sint Maarten
  55. Fire and Explosion on the Baltic Ferry Lisco Gloria
  56. A New Generation of High-Tech Sailing Ships?
  57. Giant Lego Replica of Aircraft Carrier USS Intrepid
  58. Chemical Tanker YM Uranus under Tow after Collision with Hanjin Rizhao
  59. San Francisco 2010 Fleet Week the Biggest in 20 years
  60. Countdown to the VELUX 5 Oceans Race
  61. Seafarers Ale:Drinking for a Cause, not Just Because…
  62. Seaman’s Church Institute Leaving New York City
  63. Whale Wars War of Words: Sinking of the Ady Gil Ordered by Watson?
  64. Freak Waves – a BBC Documentary
  65. Chauncy Maples Makes a Million Pounds
  66. Stealth Submarines – Concerns in Asia & Flaking Tiles in the US
  67. Lucky Fluckey
  68. A Busy October at the Penobscot Marine Museum
  69. Houston Ship Channel Closed After Barges Crash into Electrical Tower
  70. Shrinking U.S. Flag Fleet Draws Attention In Congress
  71. Mogens Frohn Nielsen, Captain of the Schooner Fulton
  72. Odyssey’s Shipwreck! Pirates & Treasure at the Maryland Science Center
  73. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey, – A Review
  74. Coffee, second only to oil?
  75. Picton Castle’s 5th Voyage around the World
  76. Do They Serve Canned Meat on the USCGC Harriet Lane?
  77. Tang, a new hybrid catamaran
  78. 1,000 Royal Navy Medical Officer Journals at the National Archives

September 2010

  1. Destroyer Arthur W. Radford to become reef off New Jersey coast
  2. Happy National Coffee Day – Coffee, Edward Lloyd, Ships and Shipping
  3. Thirteen Refugees Drown after Rescue Attempt by USS Winston S. Churchill
  4. Electrolux’s ‘Vac from the Sea’ Turns Ocean Plastic into Vacuum Cleaners
  5. Endangered Species – Watermen of the Chesapeake
  6. Ocean garbage patches are not growing, so where is all that plastic going?
  7. Passengers Should Embark and Disembark by the Gangway Only
  8. MV Lugela Hijacked then Freed off Somalia after Crew Retreats to Engine Room
  9. SS Robin, World’s Oldest Steamship Returns to London
  10. At Sea Memorial for AHS Centaur 67 Years After Being Torpedoed
  11. Submarines to do Battle with Typhoons?
  12. Titanic Myths, observations by Tim Maltin
  13. Last Minute Bids on the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light
  14. A Shipwreck inside an Art Gallery
  15. Sail Training Brig Prince William Sold to Pakistani Navy
  16. Largest offshore wind farm opens off Thanet in Kent
  17. On World Maritime Day: Year of the Seafarer – Demands for Action to End Piracy
  18. A Harvest Moon on the Autumnal Equinox
  19. The Man Who Fell to Shore – What Reid Stowe Found Waiting for Him When He Returned From 1,151 Days on the Open Sea
  20. Did a Steering Error Sink the Titanic?
  21. Fire Damaged Ferry, 86-year-old M/V Kirkland, Won’t be Rebuilt
  22. Sink the HMAS Adelaide !
  23. Video for a Monday Morning – Nudibrachs (Sea Slugs)
  24. Jupiter making closest approach in nearly 50 years
  25. Is the Aircraft Carrier USS John F. Kennedy too big for Portland?
  26. Dodge Morgan – First American to Sail Non-Stop Around the World Alone
  27. Fire on the Horizon – The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster, by John Konrad and Tom Shroder
  28. For shipwreck survivor, a new honor and an old story
  29. Salvo
  30. Real-time Research on Passenger Drills on RCCL’s Jewel of the Seas
  31. Prison ship records from 19th Century published
  32. Frederick Marryat’s The Mission – Cue the Helicopters
  33. Manta Ray Camera Thief
  34. Did Bling Doom Nelson?
  35. America’s Cup in Cats!
  36. An Historic Hull on Hallowed Ground: a Brigantine, a Brig, A Snow, a Schooner – ah Fuggedaboutit!
  37. World’s biggest wave energy site off Cornish coast set to go live
  38. Tug Caribbean Sea Never Responded to Duck Boat in Fatal Collision
  39. Jiaolong – the World’s Deepest Diving Submersible being Tested by the Chinese
  40. Joe versus the Ice Island
  41. Nelson Victory Poster on the Block but Fails to Sell
  42. Update on the M/V Magellan Star – “The Crew is on Holiday.”
  43. Tug Round-Up Slideshows
  44. Toshiba Tall Ships Festival at Dana Point – Squareriggers, Schooners and Giant Squid
  45. Vote For the Pride of Baltimore II – Help Her Win $50K
  46. Sir Francis Chichester’s Gipsy Moth IV for Sale
  47. Franklin Records Found as Search Resumes for Franklin’s Ships
  48. Tight Race for Favorite Tug of 2010 – W.O. Decker in the Lead
  49. US Marines Recapture M/V Magellan Star from Somali Pirates
  50. 34th Annual Wooden Boat Festival, Townsend WA
  51. The Pacific Sun and the Pacific Star: “Lessons Learnt and Heeded” – Or Maybe Not
  52. P&O Cruise Ship, Pacific Sun, in Heavy Seas – Alarming Video
  53. Orca Dies at San Diego SeaWorld – Sadly Typical
  54. Lieutenant-Commander Tony Bentley-Buckle and Albert RN
  55. New York Harbor Weekend – Racing Tug Boats and Red Tide
  56. Energy from Waves in Oregon and Maine
  57. The Search for the Bonhomme Richard
  58. Baltic Shipwreck with “World’s Oldest Champagne” and now the “World’s Oldest Beer”
  59. Top 5 Hurricane Vulnerable & Overdue Cities
  60. Newport, RI Labor Day Festivities Rearranged Slightly by Earl
  61. Earl Delays Opening of Camden Festival; Some Events Cancelled at Gloucester
  62. Happy Merchant Navy Day!
  63. Fish & Ships Seafood Festival at Mystic Seaport this Weekend
  64. 33rd Annual Victoria Classic Boat Festival
  65. Mariner Energy Oil Platform Explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
  66. Festival Sails into San Diego Bay Today
  67. Hurricane Earl vs Labor Day Weekend – Will the Schooners Sail?
  68. Moby Dick with Dragons? This Can’t Be Good
  69. British and French to Share Carriers?
  70. The Asian Carp Invasion – Kayaker Hit by Flying Carp

August 2010

  1. Mir-2 mini-sub Finds Czar’s Gold Treasure on Baikal Lake bed ?
  2. Diaries tell forgotten story of Nelson’s nurse
  3. “Making Waves”, Not Quite the Mary Celeste
  4. On this Day in History: John Glover’s Web-footed Marbleheaders Saved the Revolution
  5. “To Seek a Northwest Passage” – Clipper Adventurer Hits Uncharted Rock
  6. Brig Niagara Brings Unwelcome Stowaways to Isle Royale National Park
  7. Clipper Ship City of Adelaide to be Sent to Australia
  8. Atlantic Container Line to Take Delivery of Prison Containers
  9. The ‘impossible’ voyage of a Tamil ghost ship
  10. “Sisters Under Sail” – Schooner Unicorn at Tall Ships Chicago
  11. Scanning of the Titanic Underway
  12. The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick – A Review
  13. At the Movies – First Pirates of the Caribbean and now Battleship!
  14. Camden’s Windjammer Festival Starts Friday
  15. Captain John Moore – Submarine Commander and Editor of Jane’s Fighting Ships
  16. HMS Cassandra, HMS Myrtle and HMS Gentian, Sunk in the Russia Revolution, Located
  17. Bon Voyage SAIL Amsterdam 2010
  18. Tall Ships Chicago 2010
  19. Online Tour of NS Savanah – World’s first nuclear powered merchant ship
  20. Laura Dekker Sets Sail from Somewhere
  21. Lost at Sea – The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750
  22. Right Whales Shouting to be Heard
  23. First Large Tanker to Transit Russia’s Northeast Passage
  24. HMS Surprise Dramatization on BBC for the Next Week
  25. SAIL Amsterdam 2010
  26. Trouble on the Delaware – Three Historic Ships at Risk
  27. Barquentine Gazela Arrives in New York Harbor
  28. Two US Navy Commanding Officers Relieved of Command
  29. SAIL Amsterdam 2010 Festival August 19th-23rd
  30. E Ship 1 – Has the Flettner Rotor Ship Finally Arrived?
  31. The Gazela at Portside with Vaudeville and Pirates – Oh My!
  32. SUP Around Manhattan & Tension between Sea Sweepers and Stickless Surfers
  33. US firm awarded $110m for salvaging Titanic artifacts
  34. The Schooner Atlantic Reborn
  35. Removal of the Murmansk Shipwreck on Webcam and Documentary
  36. The Sinking of the Kursk – Ten Years Later
  37. Petermann Ice Island Drifting Toward Canada could Threaten Ships, Oil Platforms
  38. The Sinking of the MSC Chitra: Port Re-opens while the Finger-pointing Intensifies
  39. The Saga of the Schooner Hindu – Sold at Auction but New Investors Hopefull
  40. A Battle Won by S. Thomas Russell – A Review
  41. Build your Own City of Adelaide
  42. PFDs are still Life Savers
  43. Maritime Festivals This Week – Michigan, Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River
  44. India’s Own Atlantis – Searching for 2000 year old Undersea City
  45. Joan Baez, Smokey Robinson, Beach Boys Start Queen Mary’s First Outdoor Concert Series – Aug. 13
  46. What’s SUP? Stand-Up Paddling – the New Rage on the Water
  47. 10 years on, Mystery of the Confederate sub Hunley Remains
  48. Huge Ice Island Calves from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier
  49. Lobster, Crawfish & Wine – Three Harbor Food Festivals this Weekend
  50. The Sapphire Princess and the Already Dead Whales
  51. Confirmation – Tanker M. Star Hit by Terrorist Bomb
  52. Shackleton’s 101-Year-Old Whisky – Aged in Ice
  53. Navy Days 2010 from Portsmouth
  54. Nina and Pinta Replicas Visiting Hudson, Wisconsin
  55. Songs of Many Waters on the Deck of the Tanker Mary Whalen
  56. 2010 Salem Maritime Festival Aug. 6-7
  57. What Happened to the VLCC M. Star? Al Qaeda Group Claims Attack, Doubts Persist
  58. U.S. Coast Guard Celebrates 220th Birthday
  59. Tall Ships Race to Hartlepool August 7th – 10th
  60. A.J. Meerwald In Cape May, NJ
  61. Laura Dekker to Sail Tommorrow – First Portugal and then the World
  62. Duluth Tall Ships Festival a Hit – Attracts Over 200,000
  63. Happy Shark Week!
  64. Archaeologists Search for Zheng He Shipwreck off Kenya
  65. Barquentine Gazela Returns To Sea
  66. Colin de Mowbray – Falklands Veteran and Round-the-World Yacht Race Organizer
  67. Artemis Rowing Team Smashes 114-year old Record for Rowing Across the Atlantic

July 2010

  1. 40th Anniversary of Black Tot Day
  2. Dead Humpback Whale Pinned to Bow of the Sapphire Princess
  3. A Brigantine Beneath Washington Street – Identifying the World Trade Center Ship
  4. Photos of the MV M. Star – Cause of Damage Still a Mystery
  5. HMS Investigator – 150 years ago and Today
  6. 12th Annual West Coast Wooden Kayak Rendezvous – July 30th – August 1st
  7. Bristol Harbor Festival 2010 Begins Today
  8. Skimmer “A Whale” Sails for Dalian, China Spill
  9. Fourteen Year Old Laura Dekker has Dutch Court OK to Sail around the World
  10. What Hit the MV M. Star? An Explosion, A Grenade, or a Freak Wave?
  11. HMS Investigator, Abandoned in 1853, Found in Arctic
  12. Hiawatha – Last Operational Walking-Beam Sidewheeler in the World for Sale on EBay
  13. Tall Ships Duluth 2010 July 28 – August 3
  14. Dismantling the Ground Zero Ship
  15. Sailing Ship Photos from Life Magazine on Google
  16. Plastiki arrives in Sydney after Pacific Crossing
  17. First Lady Michelle Obama Christens National Security Cutter Stratton
  18. Royal Navy’s Summer Extravaganza Returns to Portsmouth in 2010
  19. Shipbuilding: China Overtakes Korea; Avondale to Shutdown
  20. Video of Breaching Whale Crushing Sailboat off South Africa.
  21. BP Kept Drilling Despite Leaks in Blowout Preventer Control Pod & Bypassed Alarms
  22. Spiders on a Ship – Infested Ship, MV Altavia, Turned Away from Guam
  23. Charlotte Maersk Update: Fire Finally Out After Eleven Days
  24. North Carolina’s Oldest Shipwreck Moved to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
  25. City of Water Day 2010 – Celebrating the New York City Waterfront
  26. Volunteer Dies during Safety Training on the Star of India
  27. At Least it wasn’t Scurvy – Crew of Brig Niagara Struck Down by Salmonella
  28. Breaching Southern Right Whale Crushes Sailboat
  29. China oil spill a ‘severe threat’
  30. Sallee Rovers by M. Kei, A Review
  31. The White Lady with a Dark Past Visiting Panama
  32. Collision in the North-East Passage – Two Arctic Tankers Collide
  33. Ketch Bessie-Ellen Transporting 20,000 Bottles of Wine Across the Atlantic
  34. Sharktopus – Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Watch the Telly
  35. RIMPAC – Sinking Ships for Fun and Practice
  36. Baltic Bubbly – ‘World’s oldest champagne’
  37. The Trireme Olympias Coming to New York ?
  38. The Olympias Trireme – 5th Century B.C Warship Reborn
  39. John Coates: Latter-Day Trireme Designer
  40. Skimmer “A Whale” Fails Second Round of Testing
  41. Tall Ships Tracking Map
  42. Update on the Cutty Sark – Fiasco or just “Berthing” Pains?
  43. Captain Don McIntyre and the Talisker Bounty Boat Recreate Bligh’s Epic Voyage
  44. The Merchandising Begins – Teen Sailor Jessica Watson’s Book and Album
  45. 18th Century Ship Found Buried at New York’s World Trade Center Site
  46. Searching for a Ship? Try ShipIndex.org
  47. Building a New Rainbow Warrior – Remembering the Bombing 25 Years Ago
  48. George Steinbrenner, Ship Owner and Shipbuilder who also owned a Baseball Team
  49. Schooner, Building a Wooden Boat on Martha’s Vineyard – A Review
  50. Paul, the Octopus Oracle, Retires On Top
  51. Blue Whales in Monterey Bay
  52. Sailing Cross-Country on a Pterosail
  53. Summer Sunset Schooner Regatta in New York Harbor
  54. Oak Jam from HMS Victory?
  55. Hot Times on the Charlotte Maersk – Fire Reported Contained
  56. Irony Watch: One Whale Not Skimming Oil & Another That May Be, Unfortunately
  57. Sail Tampa Bay 2010
  58. “A Collision at Sea…” the Most Famous Thing Thucydides Never Said
  59. The New Generation of Narco Submarines
  60. Revolutionary War Sister Ships Cannons on EBay
  61. Philadelphia Duck Boat Overturns in Collision with Barge in Delaware River
  62. Tall Ships come to Cleveland
  63. John Diebold, Who Explored The Seabed With Sound
  64. SS Great Britain : From Seabed to National Treasure – A Model for Ship Restoration?
  65. “A Whale” Skimmer Not Ready for Prime Time – Initial Testing Inconclusive
  66. Melville’s Leviathan
  67. IRobot Seaglider – Vacuum Cleaner’s Aquatic Cousin Monitoring the Oil Spill
  68. High-Seas Repo Man Max Hardberger Interviewed In Time Magazine
  69. Arctic Icebreaking – the USCGC Healy and the NS 50 Let Pobedy
  70. Julian Stockwin’s Victory – A Review
  71. “A Whale” to Begin Testing in the Gulf This Weekend – Will it Work?
  72. Search Restarts for the Terror, Erebus and HMS Investigator
  73. SS United States Saved From Scrappers
  74. Toronto Hosts Tall Ships

June 2010

  1. Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
  2. “A Whale” – World’s Largest Oil Skimmer Waiting on EPA and Coast Guard Approval
  3. Belated Happy 100th Birthday Wishes to Bill King, World War II Sub Commander and Adventurer
  4. BP Deepwater Horizon – Whales and Dolphins Sick and Dying in the Spill
  5. Happy Birthday to the Lydia Eva – 80 Year Old Steam Herring Drifter
  6. Portside New York – Big BlueBQ July 3rd
  7. Asian Carp Invading the Great Lakes
  8. Lost Wooden Steamer L.R. Doty Located After 112 Years
  9. Chauncy Maples, Africa’s Oldest Ship, Returning as Clinic Ship on Lake Malawi
  10. Mystic Seaport Wooden Boat Show, June 25 – 27
  11. The Channel Islands at War
  12. Lake Erie Shipwreck to Remain in the Deep ?
  13. ‘Jaws’ Shark Hunted Down
  14. USS Forrestal arrives in Phila. to await fate
  15. Mermaid Parade 2010 – Coney Island
  16. Red Bull Plane Race in New York Harbor – Attack of the Giant Mosquitoes
  17. Donald Scott Sutherland – Chronicler of New York Harbor
  18. ‘ARTEMIS NORTH ATLANTIC CHALLENGE’ 2010
  19. Whale Whore$ – Diplomats Acting Badly: A Possible New Reality TV Show?
  20. Round Britain Rowing Race – Women’s Team in First & Last Place
  21. Video of Reid Stowe’s Return to New York
  22. After 1,152 Days at Sea, Reid Stowe Returns on the Schooner Anne
  23. Fire in Tampa, Lightning in the Gulf and the Battleship Texas Still Afloat
  24. 100th Anniversary of Scott’s Sailing to Antarctica
  25. Mother Teresa, the Empire State building, and the Aircraft Carrier Intrepid
  26. “Zeb-Schooner Life” Screening by the National Maritime Historical Society
  27. Something Best Not to Think About When on a Cruise
  28. Frank Dye, Legendary Small Boat Cruiser
  29. The General Slocum Tragedy
  30. Reg White – Olympian, Sailor, and Boatbuilder
  31. Sagres in San Diego and San Diego in Pascagoula
  32. Searching for the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion with the Titanic as Cover
  33. Yukon Protects the wreck of A.J. Goddard on Lake Labarge
  34. STRAND CRAFT 122 – Custom Yacht & Custom Car
  35. Abby Sunderland Rescued by French Fishing Vessel, Ile De La Reunion
  36. SS Robin, Oldest Steam Coaster, Soon to Have New Home
  37. Abby Sunderland Update, Photo of “Wild Eyes”
  38. On Jacques Cousteau’s Centennial, the Calypso to Sail Again?
  39. Humpback Whale Washes Ashore on New York’s Jones Beach
  40. Abby Sunderland Located Alive Aboard Disabled Sailboat
  41. Abby Sunderland Feared Lost at Sea
  42. BP Spills Coffee
  43. Delaware Bay Days – June 12 & 13 Bivalve, Port Norris & Mauricetown NJ
  44. Beachcomber stumbles upon historical shipwreck
  45. Solar Power ‘Sets Sail’ In Shanghai
  46. SS Normandie’s Steam Whistle Blows Again at the Seaport
  47. Happy World Ocean Day – But How Should We Be Celebrating ?
  48. Women on Subs – Not all that New
  49. 1982 Maine Built Schooner Rachel B. Jackson for Sale on E-Bay
  50. The Saga of Robert Falcon Scott – Complex and Controversial
  51. Pelicans, Back From Brink of Extinction, Face Oil Threat
  52. Women sweep top-sailor honors in US Navy
  53. The Lost Camera and the Sea Turtle
  54. True Colours by Alaric Bond – Book Trailer
  55. Pride of Baltimore Sailing in the Great Lakes this Summer
  56. Cornelis Drebbel’s Amazing Submarine at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum
  57. Ballyvaughan’s Festival of Valleys with Wine Transported by the Ketch Bessie Ellen
  58. Tall Ships Hit By Slumping Economy
  59. Dunkirk Little Ships struggle back
  60. Hurricane Season Begins Today
  61. Atlantis – from the Seas to the Stars

May 2010

  1. Keith Jessop: Salvage Diver Who Recovered the Gold from HMS Edinburgh
  2. Another Naval Tradition Bites the Dust – No More Obelisk Climbing
  3. Battle of Surigao Strait by Anthony P. Tully – a Review
  4. John Finn, Medal of Honor Winner, Dies at 100
  5. The Great Unknowns in Gulf Oil Spill
  6. The 1st EU piracy trial starts in the Netherlands
  7. Schooner Amistad Returns to Mystic for Repairs after Rigging Failure
  8. Pirate Fighting Dolphins?
  9. Fleet Week New York – “the Super Bowl of Fleet Weeks”
  10. Floating Gold by Margaret Muir – a Review
  11. Commander Dilip Donde – First Indian Solo Circumnavigator
  12. DUNKIRK: THE FORGOTTEN HEROES
  13. Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha’s Vineyard
  14. Spy Cruising?
  15. HMS Bounty and Privateer Lynx in Portsmouth, NH
  16. Fantastic Photos from the Historical Seas Tall Ships Regatta
  17. USS Olympia to be Sunk as Artificial Reef?
  18. Stena Hollandica – World’s Largest Super Ferry Makes Her Maiden Voyage
  19. Operation Dynamo – the Little Ships Return to Ramsgate for 70th anniversary
  20. HSM Bounty in Bath, Maine this Weekend
  21. Just Before Fleet Week, President of Intrepid Museum Resigns Suddenly
  22. Kalmar Nyckel to Star in “The Ship That Changed the World”
  23. Windmills in New York Harbor – Isaac Edge’s Windmill 1815-1839
  24. North Korean Torpedo Sank Patrol Ship – “There is No Other Plausible Explanation”
  25. Wind Farm in New York Harbor?
  26. The Making of Privateer Lynx
  27. True Colours by Alaric Bond, a Review
  28. Jessica Watson Arrives in Sydney Harbor
  29. The Final Demise of the SS C. W. Pasley
  30. Ship-spotting on a Monday Morning
  31. The Wavertree and Pioneer Turn 125
  32. Lt-Cdr Bobby Lawson – Swordfish Pilot who Attacked the Bismark
  33. Women Submariners – Pioneers Facing Many Challenges
  34. Tie the Knot Contest on the Schooner AJ Meerwald
  35. Octopus Kills Shark
  36. Tupaia, Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator – A New Book by Joan Druett
  37. Russian Cruiser Aurora Turns 110
  38. Smallest Maritime Museum In England
  39. Moby, Mocha and the Whale Ship Essex
  40. Navy Week, Portsmouth, 1937
  41. MV Moscow University – Why Anti-Piracy Efforts off Somalia Are Doomed to Fail
  42. Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World – a Review
  43. Staten Island Ferry Crash this Morning – 37 injured
  44. Ancient treasures set for auction in Indonesia
  45. Russian special forces capture oil tanker Moscow University
  46. Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World – New Ric Burns Documenatry
  47. Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies
  48. No World Record for Jessica Watson?
  49. Astrodene’s Historical Naval Fiction Log Book – A New Newsletter
  50. The Mystery of the Beeswax Ship
  51. Clocks from the Monitor’s Engine Room and the Lusitania’s Captain
  52. Sea cadet, 14, dies after falling from ship in Solent
  53. Small Ships Under the Tower Bridge
  54. Fireboat 343 and the JohnA.J. Harvey

April 2010

  1. Vajoliroja – Johnny Depp’s very own pirate ship in the Caribbean
  2. The Talisker Bounty Boat Begins its Epic Voyage
  3. Cape Wind Project, the First US Offshore Wind Farm, Approved
  4. For Sale: Neil Young’s Classic Baltic Trader
  5. Seized, A Sea Captains Adventures – Battling Scoundrels and Pirates while Recovering Stolen Ships in the World’s Most Troubled Waters
  6. The End of Smoking on Navy submarines
  7. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
  8. Headline Wars over Whales
  9. Right Whales in Block Island Sound, Whale Poop & Global Warming
  10. Abby Heads for Cape Town and Jessica Battles Huge Waves
  11. Pirate Weekend in Newburgh, NY and Real Pirates Charged in Norfolk
  12. April in New York Harbor – Seals, New Boats and Floaters?
  13. Deepwater Horizon rig sinks in Gulf of Mexico after explosion
  14. First Female Captain of a P&O Cruise ship
  15. ‘Asgard II’ may have collided with a container before sinking
  16. Celebrity Eclipse to the Rescue
  17. The Ship Hotel: A Grand View Along the Lincoln Highway
  18. Iceland volcano: Naval ships sent to rescue stranded Britons
  19. The Last of the Victory Ships
  20. HMCS Canada/Queen Of Nassau – Mystery Wreck to become National Historic Site
  21. Steam Packet Company Post War Vessel To Be Scrapped
  22. Now the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch
  23. Grounding of the Shen Neng 1 – the Aftermath
  24. HMS Somerset resurfaces off Cape Cod
  25. Diving with Sharks – Roatan, Honduras
  26. The USNS Mission Santa Ynez, the Last T2 Tanker, Heading for the Scrap Yard
  27. New York Public Library Digital Gallery – Ships
  28. Swashbuckle and 70,000 Tons of Metal
  29. The Wahine Disaster in Wellington Harbour
  30. On an Ocean of Air – Stena Prototype Tests Air Cushion
  31. Wild Detectives: Narwhal Tooth
  32. Large Model of H.M.S. Leviathan to be Sold in Maritime Sale
  33. The Shipyard Cup 2010
  34. Tall Ship Soren Larsen – South Pacific Bound
  35. Alien Autopsy: Inside a Big Squid
  36. Norwegians to raise toxic German submarine U-864
  37. Another City of Adelaide at Risk
  38. Kalmar Nyckel Being Readied for 13th Sailing Season
  39. Titanic Museum to Open in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
  40. Shen Neng 1 Slams into Great Barrier Reef off Australia
  41. Pirate Latitudes by Micheal Crichton, a Review
  42. Confessions of a Maritime Blogger
  43. U.S. expert says microburst hit N.S.-based sailing school that sank off Brazil
  44. Online Classic Boat Auction at Turk’s
  45. Transoceanic Sailboat Race Kicking Off in NYC
  46. A Whale of An Escort – Minke Swims along on Marathon Paddle
  47. Somali Pirates Attack USS Nicholas
  48. Sail Training International’s Website Goes Live
  49. Big Ship Smack-Down: Who’s Got the Biggest?
  50. Sunset Planet Alert – Mercury & Venus
  51. Lubec’s Gold from Sea Water Hoax

March 2010

  1. Make America’s Cup about Sailing, not Money
  2. The Return of Farrell Lines? Or Merely Seeing Shadows?
  3. Riddle of the Dead Whales
  4. New Around-the-World Sailing Record – Franck Cammas and Groupama 3
  5. Missing Sailor’s Yacht and Dog Found
  6. Update: 46 Still Missing from South Korean Cruiser Cheonan
  7. Abby Sunderland to round Cape Horn Tuesday
  8. HMAS Adelaide – A Hard Ship to Sink
  9. Tales of the Seven Seas: The Escapades of Captain Dynamite Johnny O’Brien
  10. South Korean Corvette Cheonan Sinks
  11. Schooner Amistad, Slave Ship Replica, Arrives in Havana
  12. Molly Shakespear Rimington – Wartime Wren Writer
  13. Cheap Fokkers
  14. The Surreal Battle Against Somali Pirates Continues – One Pirate Confirmed Dead, the Rest Set Free
  15. Scientists watch whale’s birth near Navy training range
  16. The Lady Washington is Back in Service with New Engine and Foremast
  17. The Plastiki’s Vertical Garden
  18. Maine man creates huge online ship database
  19. SS Wimmera, Passenger Ship Sunk in 1918, Found off New Zealand
  20. How to Run a Maritime Militia
  21. The Grey Wolves of Eriboll by David Hird – The Secret Mass Surrender of Nazi U-boats
  22. Little Brig – the Smallest Tall Ship
  23. Hydroptère – Fastest on the Water Sets Sights Offshore
  24. Fisherman’s Friends Net Catchy Album Deal
  25. Noro Hits the Celebrity Mercury again
  26. Eustace the Monk – Benedictine Monk, Sea Captain, and Pirate
  27. Lila-Lou presents sailing yacht Ankida
  28. Storm-sunken “treasure ship” found in Ukraine ?
  29. Death of a Coast Guard Legend – Lieutenant Herbert M. Collins Crosses the Bar
  30. Couture superyacht brings high fashion to the high seas
  31. Update: HMS Superb – Royal Navy Court Martial
  32. Update: Katie Spotz Completes her Row Across the Atlantic
  33. Dog skeleton from Mary Rose displayed in Portsmouth
  34. Happy Pi Day (3.14) and a Toast to Hakudo Maru
  35. At 95 years old, Newport News-built MV Doulos again avoids scrapyard
  36. The Maritime Art of Patrick O’Brien – No, not that Patrick O’Brian
  37. Bad News and Slightly Less Bad News about Somali Piracy
  38. Updates: Comfort Sails Home, Jewel of Muscat Sails on, and Bounty Reanactors get Ready to Sail
  39. Gribbles? A Biofuel Breakthrough?
  40. Still Fighting over the Battleship Graf Spee
  41. USS Dewey and the Olympia
  42. BBC videocast on the City of Adelaide
  43. Tsunami warning came too late for Robinson Crusoe Island
  44. Centuries-old Baltic shipwrecks found
  45. France captures 35 ‘pirates’ in three days off the Somali coast
  46. New ferry to start Tonga service in November
  47. 1,208 Humpback Whale Sightings in Great Maui Whale Count
  48. The Cove, Documentary About Japanese Dolphin Slaughter, Wins Academy Award
  49. Under Sail : A Boy’s Voyage Around Cape Horn by Felix Reisenberg – A Review
  50. Trafalgar cannons fired to honor Admiral Lord Collingwood
  51. Leviathans may battle in remote depths
  52. Solo sailor Jessica Watson set to make millions on her return to Australia
  53. Hull trawler, Arctic Corsair, joins SS Great Britain and Royal Yacht on Historic Ships Register
  54. 3D Laser Scanning the Hold of the Charles W. Morgan
  55. Spirit of Mystery Returning Home
  56. Women and Children First – Time Permitting
  57. Fine Arts in Boston – Ship Models
  58. The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh?
  59. Concordia Investigation Update
  60. 11th Annual Ghost Ships Festival in Milwaukee on March 5th & 6th
  61. Huge wave kills 2 on cruise ship, Louis Majesty, in Mediterranean
  62. Scraping bids out for SS United States
  63. Persistent Sheen – After 60 Years Princess Kathleen Still Leaking Oil off Alaskan coast
  64. Update: SS Olympia – Stuck in Philadelphia by Sandbars and Scandal
  65. In the Wake of the Beagle – Stad Amsterdam arrives in Melbourne
  66. NATO Destroyer Sinks Pirate Mother Ship off Somalia but Lets Pirates Go
  67. Ocean Transportation – Beautifully Green or Murderously Dirty?
  68. Circumnavigator Update – Jessica, Abby, and Dilip

February 2010

  1. Run for the A.J. Meerwald
  2. Maersk B Class Ships, World’s Fastest Container Ships, in Layup
  3. Sea Shepherds Quit for the Season
  4. Philly Museum Sends SOS to Care for Historic Ship
  5. Sailing Around The World With Solar
  6. Cutty Sark Restoration Turning into a Fiasco?
  7. Heinz Stahlschmidt – the German Sailor Who Saved Bordeaux
  8. SeaWorld tragedy — a reminder of why orcas should swim free?
  9. Orca Tilikum Kills Trainer at Sea World
  10. Update: Plastiki Almost Ready to Sail
  11. Maritime Museum Round-up – Models, Spooks, Anchors and a New Museum
  12. BBC update on the Clipper City of Adelaide and the Battle of the Ballads
  13. Historic riverboat, Becky Thatcher, sinks in Ohio River
  14. Poisoned Shipments: Are Strange, Illicit Sinkings Making the Mediterranean Toxic?
  15. Fleet Grows for Green Bay’s Tall Ship Festival
  16. UPDATE: Captain Reports that Microburst Sank SV Concordia
  17. Fear the Blobfish
  18. Cutty Sark to be Restored by Olympics; Fate of City of Adelaide Delayed
  19. “Class Afloat” School Ship Concordia Sinks Off Brazil
  20. Fair-well to the Otto Hahn
  21. USS Kittiwake – From Ghost Fleet To Artificial Reef
  22. Containerships – from Slow to Fast to Slow to Fast to Slow Again
  23. French Warship Sales to Russia Worries Allies
  24. Sea Shepherd Farce Continues – Illegal Boarding and Foam Baby Crocodiles
  25. On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners
  26. Why China’s Naval Rise Could Help the World
  27. Photos Recovered from Digital Camera Dropped Overboard on Queen Mary
  28. Bronze Age shipwreck found off Devon coast
  29. Happy President’s Day – Lincoln’s Camel
  30. America’s Cup Returning to America – BMW Oracle Defeats Alinghi
  31. Sixty Miles per Hour under Sail – the Mighty (and Tiny) DN Iceboat
  32. Project Azorian – The CIA’s Declassified History of the Glomar Explorer
  33. Log Books, Global Warming and the Internet
  34. BMW Oracle win America’s Cup opener
  35. Last Two Surviving “Spitfires of the Seas” Saved
  36. 22 knots of boat speed in 2 knots of wind?
  37. The Sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, 65 Years Ago – the Greatest Maritime Disaster in History
  38. Breaking up the City of Adelaide Could Bankrupt Scottish Museum
  39. Royal Navy Rum – issued daily to sailors 1655 to 1970
  40. “Amfibus” could replace Clyde ferry service
  41. Innovations in America’s Cup Sailing
  42. Maine group in running for decommissioned JFK
  43. Abby Sunderland Restarts her Round the World Attempt
  44. Skipjack: The Story of America’s Last Sailing Oystermen by Christopher White – A Review
  45. Building Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s Ship

January 2010

  1. PS Ryde – Mine-sweeper ship that defied the Germans on D-Day set to be scrapped
  2. Aircraft Carrier George H.W. Bush Delivered
  3. Teenagers Racing Around the Globe – First Zac, then Mike, Jessica and now Abby
  4. Royal Mail Ship St Helena – Delivery Service for a Remote Island
  5. Flotilla of Yachts Sailing with Haitain Aid
  6. UK Government says “Don’t Pay Ransom and Don’t Arm your Ships”
  7. Submarines Navigating Badly
  8. Oil Spill in Texas Contained
  9. Hunt is on for SS Gairsoppa’s £70m silver hoard
  10. Unlocking the bloody history of the ship made famous by Turner, the Fighting Temeraire
  11. Oceanbridge Auckland Anniversary Day Regatta turns 170, Feb 1, 2010
  12. Crowley Establishing Flow of Relief Cargo Into Haiti
  13. USS New York – Bad Welding and Failed Bearings
  14. Schooner Amistad Sails for Haiti
  15. A New Attempt to Save the Clipper Ship City of Adelaide
  16. An Orca Baby Boom and Whale Whores
  17. Tall Ship & Traditional Sail LinkedIn Group
  18. ICS: “GOVERNMENTS MUST DO MORE ON PIRACY”
  19. Mystery Whale Washes up in Puget Sound
  20. Porta-au-Prince Harbor to Reopen in Days – Crane Ships, Barge Carrier and OPDS Deployed
  21. Update: VLCC Maran Centaurus – Status of Ransom Payment Unclear
  22. Record Ransom Paid for VLCC Maran Centaurus
  23. Sail on HMB Endeavour
  24. Cruelty on the Cowpens? Cruiser CO Relieved of Duty
  25. The Saint Lawrence Seaway Concludes 50th Anniversary Season
  26. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard marks 88 years of HMS Victory
  27. Salvage ship USS Grasp & Hospital ship Comfort on the way to Port-au-Prince

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November 2009

  1. My River Chronicle – Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong – a Review

October 2009

  1. Review: Live Yankees, the Sewalls and their Ships by William Bunting
  2. The Temple (Third Book in the Sir Sidney Smith Series) by Tom Grundner
  3. Sailors’ and Fishermans’ Superstitions
  4. Rich Men’s Toys – Battleships, Helipads & Submarines
  5. Lars Henning Hansen – Master Rigger
  6. Update: Tall Ship Soren Larsen – Repairs after Surviving a Rogue Wave
  7. Setting Full Sail Toward the 20th Century
  8. Update: The Fourth Plinth – Pirates, Painting & Pole Dancing
  9. Navy Chiefs Support Women Serving on Subs
  10. The Mystery of the Mahogany Ship

September 2009

  1. Fans of World’s Fastest Ocean Liner Put Out a Distress Call
  2. Jessica Watson sets sail again – to cheers and jeers
  3. Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez – Bidding Summer Adieu
  4. Samoa police say 63 dead in tsunami, toll may rise
  5. The Leaving of Liverpool
  6. Aquacalypse Now – The End of Fish
  7. Record £240m cocaine bust as Royal Navy sinks smugglers
  8. Lobster Hot Line Hotter Than Expected
  9. Visualizing Sea-Lanes
  10. Photo for a Monday Morning – the bow of the NIRINT PRIDE
  11. Whale Watching Roundup – Whales, Sharks and Ships
  12. Submarines Lost and Found, Part 4 – Russian WWI Sub Gepard May Be Found
  13. Unexpected Whale Watching in New York Harbor
  14. Falls of Clyde – Beauty, Like the Devil, is the the Details
  15. Update: Aftermath of the Sinking of the Princess Ashika
  16. The Swiss Decide Against Joining European Union’s Anti-Piracy Efforts
  17. Archeology Weekend at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
  18. Billboards for Submarines?
  19. Mary Rose prepares to rise again
  20. Breaking News – Spotted Dick is Back!
  21. Digging into the Archives – Logs of the Serapis and Elegiac Epistles on the Calamities of Love and War
  22. John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard, 230 years ago today
  23. HMS Victory Fires 64 Gun Broadside to Launch the National Museum of the Royal Navy
  24. Charles W. Morgan to Sail Again?
  25. The Bloop and the Sea Serpent
  26. Hywind – the First Full-scale Floating Wind Turbine
  27. Star-Crossed by Linda Collison, a Review
  28. Skysail in Close-Encounter with Airplane
  29. On this Day in History: Magellan Sets Sail
  30. Theodore Tugboat in the Big Harbor
  31. In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day ….
  32. Dutch flotilla makes its way north on Hudson River
  33. Gold and Ivory Shipwreck on a Beach of Diamonds
  34. SS Columbia’s Rebirth Fundraiser
  35. Australian adventurer & teenage circumnavigator to re-enact Capt. Bligh’s epic open boat voyage
  36. Amanda Ridgely Lake
  37. John Stobart and the Ships of South Street
  38. SELI 1 Update: Lee Shores and Legal Disputes
  39. The Schooner Elena – A Legend Returns
  40. Panels on Solar Assisted Car Carrier Auriga Leader Perform Well
  41. Spotted Dick Off the Menu
  42. Fireboat named for FDNY heroes killed on 9/11
  43. The unseen tragedy behind Superferry 9
  44. The Floating Chapels of the Seamen’s Church Institute
  45. A Bad Week for Bulk Carriers – Black Rose Sinks, Seli 1 Aground
  46. Update: Beluga Shipping Underway in the North East Passage
  47. Henry Hudson on Manhattan Island – 400 Years Ago Today
  48. Dick Dowling Days
  49. Breaking News from the Department of Really Lousy Timing
  50. Maritime Evacuation on 9/11 – An American Dunkirk
  51. Australia’s National Shipwrecks Database
  52. Retracing Darwin’s Journey – 150 Years Later
  53. Fire on the Morro Castle – Part 2: “Hero” and Murderer
  54. Fire on the Morro Castle – Part 1: Memorial on 75th Anniversary
  55. 17th Annual North River Tugboat Challenge
  56. 1945 U.S. ARMY Battle Tug For Sale

August 2009

  1. Korea’s first clipper finally sets sail
  2. Would you prefer the Slimehead or the Orange Roughy?
  3. Nautical Reenactors on the Willow Wren
  4. Of Tall Ships and Stupid Lawyers
  5. The Long, Strange Journey of the Prins Willem
  6. 7th Annual Boothbay Boat Builders Festival
  7. Expedition Sets Sail to the Great Plastic Vortex
  8. Hurricane Ike and the Windfall for the Charles W. Morgan
  9. Towing the Intrepid – a McAllister Tug Film by Jon Kane

July 2009

  1. Sailing on the Schooner A.J. Meerwald in New York Harbor
  2. Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine – A Review

May 2009

  1. The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O’Brian, by Brian Lavery

March 2009

  1. Friday Photo – Australia Day 2009 Ferrython

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December 2008

  1. Help Save the Falls of Clyde
  2. Melville’s White Jacket and the question of justice
  3. Thad Koza – Tall Ships International
  4. A Junk at Risk
  5. Sailor’s Tattoos – Pigs, Chickens, Swallows, and Tattooed Backsides

November 2008

  1. Replica Frigate “Grand Turk” for Sale
  2. Animated Knots and Marlinspike Sailors
  3. Voyage of the Sloop Experiment

October 2008

  1. Talking Like a Somali and Update on the MV Faina
  2. The Business of Raising Sails on a Maine Windjammer
  3. Of Blogs and Logs
  4. The Holy Ground – Songs, Sailors, and Women of Easy Virtue
  5. Divers close in on lost fortune of Ann Cargill, a scandalous star
  6. Putting the Oy Back into ‘Ahoy’ – Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
  7. Sailor Talk – “Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter” and “Sucking the Monkey”

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