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December 2011

  1. New Year a Day Early in Samoa and Tokelau
  2. To Avoid Pirates, Volvo Ocean Fleet Traveling by Ship from Undisclosed Port
  3. The Perfect Wreck by Steven E. Maffeo – a review by Linda Collison
  4. EDA-R : New French Navy Landing Craft
  5. Sea Shepherd’s New Speed Boat, Brigitte Bardot, Broken by the Southern Ocean
  6. New Masts for the Schooner Virginia
  7. America’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Ships of 2011
  8. Update: Repairs Underway to Russian Fishing Vessel Sparta with Help from Korean Icebreaker Araon
  9. A Short Sea Voyage for the not yet Tall Ship, Oliver Hazard Perry
  10. The Long Strange Voyage of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Johnny Vasco da Gama
  11. Washington Crossing the Delaware and the Durham Boats
  12. Sparta Rescue in Ross Sea Delayed by Sister Ship
  13. Scuba Santa Swimming with Sharks – A New Holiday Tradition?
  14. The Lobsterman’s Christmas
  15. Santa in the Sand – World’s Largest Sand Sculpture Santa Claus
  16. Update: Christmas Day Rescue for Russian Fishing Vessel Sparta?
  17. Maxi Banque Populaire V Rounds Cape Horn in Race for the Jules Verne Trophy
  18. Lobster Trap Christmas Trees – Christmas Tradition & Friendly Competition
  19. The Halcyon Days – Not So Peaceful This Year
  20. Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge – “The World’s Roughest Rowing Race” Living Up to Its Name
  21. The Long Voyage of Laura Dekker – Reaching the End or Starting Again ?
  22. Mariners Respond to 9/11- a PortSide NewYork Exhibit
  23. Dr. Edith Widder – Using Bioluminescence to Fight Pollution
  24. More Volvo Ocean Race Boat Failures – Team Sanya Sails for Madagascar
  25. Stricken Fishing Vessel Sparta Not Fit for Antarctic Ice
  26. Timelapse of the Building of the Lugger Grayhound
  27. More than 200 Missing as Asylum Seeker’s Ship Sinks Off Indonesia
  28. Russian Oil Rig, Kolskaya, Capsizes off Sakhalin – 4 Dead & 49 Missing
  29. Update: Sparta’s Condition Precarious with Help Days Away
  30. Japan Take Sea Shepherds to Court over Violence
  31. The Schooners of Madagascar and the Brittany Shipwrights
  32. Congratulations to Australian Rear Admiral & General Robyn Walker
  33. Cargo Ship TK Bremen Blown Ashore on Kerminihy Beach in Southern Brittany, Leaking Oil
  34. Russian Fishing Vessel Sparta Listing After Striking Sea Ice in Antarctica
  35. First Tsunami Flotsam Arrives on West Coast & Perfect Storm Flotsam Discovery in Ireland
  36. China’s First New-Old Aircraft Carrier Returns from Second Sea Trial
  37. Building the Viking Longship Dragon Harald Fairhair
  38. Great Moments in Maritime Porcelain – Kaiser Willhelm’s Urinal Found at Bottom of Baltic
  39. Schooner Spirit of South Carolina For Sale
  40. Instead of a Jet Pack – the Zapata Water-Jet Flyboard
  41. How Big is Too Big? The Strange Case of the Valemax VLOCs
  42. Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Royal Barge Design Unveiled
  43. The Gundalow Piscataqua Splashes into the Piscataqua River
  44. Cutty Sark’s Masts Rise Again
  45. ROV Training on the Tanker Mary A. Whalen
  46. Videorays – the Submarine Drones of New York Harbor
  47. Maxi Banque Populaire V Screaming Past Cape Leeuwin in Quest for Jules Verne Trophy
  48. HMS OCEAN – All I Want For Christmas
  49. Of Waves and Whales – Whaling and the Tsunami
  50. Commander Etta Jones Found Guilty of Cruelty and Other Charges
  51. Land and Sea – Nova Scotia Schooners On-Line Now
  52. Volunteers Allowed Back to Work at the South Street Seaport Museum
  53. Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Ago Today – Isoroku Yamamoto, An Insufficiently Reluctant Enemy
  54. Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Ago Today – Disbanding the Survivors Association
  55. Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge – “The World’s Roughest Rowing Race”
  56. Laura Dekker & the Volvo Ocean Racers
  57. US Navy Training Mine Washes Up on Miami Beach
  58. Update: Bombs on the Rhine – Koblentz Bombs Successfully Defused, Residents Return
  59. Christmas Tree Ship Arrives at Navy Dock in Chicago
  60. The First Christmas Tree Ship – Captain Herman Schuenemann & the Schooner Rouse Simmons
  61. Land and Sea – Nova Scotia Schooners
  62. Remembering Dr. James Guthrie, the Real Dr. Stephen Maturin ?
  63. The Long Strange Voyage of Valeska Paris on the Scientology “Cruise Ship” Freewinds
  64. The Sinking of the Kowloon Bridge, 25 Years Ago Today – the World’s Largest Wreck
  65. Video for a Friday – My Jorts Smell Like Biomass
  66. Perry’s Revenge Ale – Celebrating Perry’s Lost Ship
  67. Update: Bombs Along the Rhine – Half of Koblenz to be Evacuated for Bomb Disposal

November 2011

  1. Adrift in the Pacific – Two Kiribati Men Missing for 33 Days Come Ashore in Marshall Islands
  2. The Rosenfeld Collection
  3. Thunder on the Thames – HMS Belfast Gangway Collapses
  4. The USS HORNET Project – Building a Replica of the Historic Sloop of War
  5. Captain Seog Hae-gyun Earns IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea 2011
  6. RV Atlantis Rescues 93 Egyptians from Fishing Trawler in the Mediterranean
  7. New Frigate HMS Westminster Sent to Libya Short on Missiles & No Royal Navy Warship Left to Guard Britain
  8. Bulk Carrier Swanland Sinks off North Wales – Two Crew Rescued & Five Missing
  9. Olga Bloom – Founder of Bargemusic
  10. Bombs Along the Rhine – Drought Exposing WWII Unexploded Munitions
  11. Win for Cook Inlet Beluga Whales – Judge Rejects Removal from Endangered List
  12. The Typical Powerboat is Not Seaworthy
  13. USCG Cutter Mohawk to become Reef off Sanibel Isalnd, FL
  14. Brinacle – The Icy Underwater Finger of Death
  15. Update: MV Rena – Unloading Containers & Little Blue Penguins Released
  16. Whale Skeletons in a Chilean Desert
  17. Volvo Open 70s – Too Fast & Too Furious?
  18. British Tall Ship Youth Trust Plans Sale of the Stavros S Niarchos
  19. Puma Yacht Mar Mostro Dismasted, Half of Volvo Fleet Out of Race
  20. Celebrities and the Titanic – Then and Now
  21. Lady Maryland Dry Docking
  22. Submarine Saturday – British Submarine Delay Concerns, HMS Astute Fires Harpoons & German Fuel Cell Sub
  23. Tough Times in the Tanker Markets – General Maritime Bankruptcy and Continued Overcapacity
  24. 1864 Lake Erie Shipwreck of the Brigantine Sultan – “Pirates and Other Hearty Seafaring Folk”
  25. New Documentary on Thames Sailing Barges – Red Sails
  26. USS George HW Bush – New $6 Billion Aircraft Carrier Without Working Toilets
  27. Star of India – Still Sailing
  28. Art on the Water – Umbrella Harvest Dome, Horseshoe Crab Reef and Burger King Crown
  29. A New Yacht to Rule the Waves? A Campaign for a New Royal Yacht
  30. Dream Symphony and the Fusion Schooners: Modern High-Tech Wooden Shipbuilding
  31. Where the Age of Sail Never Ended – the Bugis Phinisi, an Appreciation
  32. Cat and Dolphins Playing Together
  33. News from the Bounty
  34. Britain Set to Introduce Sailing Ships to Counter Emissions, or Maybe Not
  35. Hoops on the Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Carl Vincent
  36. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – November 10, 1975
  37. London 2012 Olympics Airbrushes out HMS Belfast
  38. DNA Testing and the Mystery of the 18th Century Shipwrecked Bone-Setter
  39. Brigadier General Dick Lord – Top Gun
  40. NY Maritime Museum Revival – Return Of The South Street Seaport Museum & the Brooklyn Navy Yard Museum Opens
  41. A Whale of a Surprise, or Exactly How Close Should You Get When Whale Watching?
  42. Underwater Volcano Shuts El Hierro Island Port in Canary Islands
  43. Volvo Ocean Race Off to Rough Start – Two of Six Boats Damaged in First 24 Hours
  44. John Masefield and Sea Fever
  45. The Wave Glider of 2011 and Matthew Fontaine Maury of 1850
  46. Exploding Reefer Containers? 8,000 Boxes Serviced in Vietnam Believed at Risk
  47. The Alexander von Humboldt II – First New German Tall Ship Since 1958
  48. Too Much of an Ocean View? Caravans Left Hanging Over A Cliff in Wales

October 2011

  1. The Haunted Point Lookout Lighthouse
  2. Seventy Years Ago Today: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Reuben James – October 31, 1941
  3. Five Sailors Saved by Cruise Ship Norwegian Gem in Coast Guard AMVER Rescue
  4. How Not to Dispose of a Dead Whale
  5. Armed Guards on Merchant Ships, the New Norm in Pirate Waters?
  6. Update: MV Rena Salvage Ongoing, A Second Container Ship Runs Aground, HMAS Broome Averts Disaster
  7. Party in the Harbor for Lady Liberty & Liberty Enlightening the World Wide Web
  8. CHARLOTTE – A Wooden Boat Story
  9. Cradle for Clipper Ship City of Adelaide to Set Sail For Scotland
  10. Halloween Haunted Ship Round-Up 2011
  11. Racing Square Riggers – Exy Johnson vs Irving Johnson
  12. Lost Dutch World War II Sub Located off Borneo
  13. 70th Anniversary Celebration of the Charles W Morgan at Mystic Seaport
  14. Jack Tar: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Roy & Leslie Adkins – A Review
  15. Moby Dick in Space ?
  16. Sailrocket vs. Hydroptère
  17. Archaeologists Discover Roman Port in Wales
  18. Happy Trafalgar Day and the Anniversary of the Launching of “Old Ironsides”
  19. An Ocean Full of Comets?
  20. Rum & Revolution Cruise on the Schooner Fame of Salem
  21. Amazing Video – Kayaking and Swimming with Blue Whales
  22. 1,000 Year Old Viking Boat Burial Site Found in Scotland
  23. Sable Island, Graveyard of the Atlantic and Home to Wild Horses, Becomes Canada’s Newest National Park
  24. Schooner Sultana Downrigging Weekend & Tall Ship and Wooden Boat Festival 2011
  25. Western Africa’s Graveyards of Ships
  26. The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race 2011
  27. Message in a Bottle Helped Rescue Crew of MV Montecristo
  28. Tanker Markets – Back to the 80’s ?
  29. Fighting Pirates with USVs ?
  30. Clipper City of Adelaide at Risk as Aussie Government Backs Out On Funding
  31. MV Rena Cracking, Risking Breaking Up, Containers Washing Ashore
  32. Jeffrey Allison, 73, Circumnavigates the Arctic Clockwise
  33. “Don’t Give Up the Ship” – One of the Odder Naval Battle Cries From a Forgotten War
  34. Glow-in-the-Dark Lantern Shark Can Also Become Invisible
  35. Update: MV Rena – Increasing Oil Spill and Container Loss
  36. Crew of MV Montecristo Rescued from Pirates by NATO
  37. Diving HMS Hermes
  38. Columbus, Eratosthenes & Posidonius
  39. Kick ’em Jenny – Rocking Out Underwater
  40. Hurricane Irene Breaks Up USS Arthur W Radford – Recently Sunken Artificial Reef
  41. Fourth Annual Wooden Boat Festival at the Independence Seaport Museum
  42. Dock Dogs and Diving Horses
  43. Oil Spill from MV Rena – A Small Leak or Looming Environmental Disaster ?
  44. Putin and the “Discovery” of his Ancient Jars
  45. MV Rena Aground on Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga, New Zealand
  46. The Strange and Tragic Delivery of the Russian Submarine Nerpa
  47. HMT Lancastria Finally Honored – A “Secret Sacrifice” No Longer
  48. Brig Niagra Drydocking
  49. Salvage Plan for the MV Canadian Miner
  50. San Diego Red Tide Glows Neon Blue
  51. Deadly Straits by R.E. McDermott – A Review
  52. U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet, “Queen of the Fleet,” Now for Sale on EBay
  53. Disabled French Woman Kidnapped on Kenyan Coast and Taken to Somalia
  54. Of Migaloo and the New White Calf
  55. The Knockdown and Capsizing of the SV Concordia – the Official Report

September 2011

  1. Laura Dekker Turns 16 and Sets Sail Across the Indian Ocean
  2. The Original Social Networking – Harold Hackett and His Messages in Bottles
  3. Report: Poor Training Caused SV Concordia Sinking
  4. Happy Birthday to Admiral Lord Nelson and the Royal New Zealand Navy
  5. Seabreacher – Free Your Inner Orca
  6. You Boat – Your Own Personal Submarine, a Quick Look at What’s Going Down
  7. Iran Plans to Deploy Ships Near US Waters
  8. Update: Tanker Mattheos I and Crew Released Without Ransom – Why the Gulf Of Guinea is Not Somalia
  9. The Immortal Jellyfish and a Coming Jellyfish Apocalypse ?
  10. Wreck of the S.S. Gairsoppa with 240 Tonnes of Silver Aboard Found Three Miles Down
  11. “Those Damned Jellyfish” – Diana Nyad’s Second Attempt at Cuba-Florida Swim Ends Due to Jellyfish Stingsks
  12. Dolphin Sunday – Part 3: The Wild Dolphin Project
  13. Dolphin Sunday – Part 2: The Dolphin Lady of John’s Pass
  14. Dolphin Sunday – Part 1: Dolphin Tale, a Review
  15. Jean-Marc Allaire Dies on the Way to the Charente-Maritime/Bahia Transat 6.50 Race
  16. Russian Nuclear Sub, Svyatoy Georgiy Pobedonosets, Damaged in Collision with Fishing Vessel
  17. Happy Autumnal Equinox !!! Put on Warm Socks and Watch out for Falling Satellites
  18. Of Painting Forth Bridge, Paddles and Creeks, Sand and Tides
  19. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is No More – A Navy Marriage and New Places to Recruit
  20. Updates: Murderer on HMS Astute Sentenced, Kidnapped Briton in Somalia & MSC Luciana Refloated
  21. The Wired Oceans – Cables Beneath the Deep Blue Sea
  22. The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Session – September 18th, 2011
  23. Jack Tar Magazine’s “The New Conrads” Storytelling Challenge
  24. Linda Collison Interviews Alaric Bond
  25. Your Father’s America’s Cup – Sailing the Stars and Stripes
  26. Container Ship MSC Luciana Aground on Sand Bank Southwest of Amsterdam
  27. Tom Grundner, Owner of Fireship Press
  28. Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea – Tanker Mattheos I Hijacked, 23 Crew Taken Hostage
  29. “I was kidnapped by Somali pirates”
  30. The Great Brigantine Race of 2011
  31. Scurvy and the Google Orange
  32. “Pirate” Battle on the Delaware with the A.J. Meerwald, the Kalmar Nyckel and the Gazella
  33. Blue Whale Serenade
  34. Fire on Norwegian Cruise Ship, MS Nordlys, Kills Two and Injures Nine
  35. Sink the Ark Royal ?
  36. Not Your Father’s America’s Cup – Plymouth Capsize Club
  37. Mariners’ Response to 9/11 – Carolina Salguero & Jessica DuLong Speaking Aboard the Lilac
  38. The Elissa – A Galveston Treasure and Fine Indian Pale Ale
  39. Pirates Strike Ashore ? British Tourist David Tebbutt Killed and Wife Judith Kidnapped from Kenyan Resort
  40. Air Swimmers
  41. An American Dunkirk – Evacuating Manhattan on 9/11
  42. Ferry Disaster off Tanzania and Zanzibar
  43. Keith Tantlinger – Father of the Container
  44. An 80′ Mast, a 65′ Bridge and Boat Balls
  45. Weekend Round Up Part 2 – Non Pirate Activites
  46. Piratical Weekend Round Up
  47. Happy Birthday Captain Bligh !
  48. Don’t Shoot, We’re Republicans! – The Strange Saga of the USS Iowa and the “Willie D”
  49. USS Iowa Bound for Berth 87 in the Port of Los Angeles
  50. Museum of the City of New York to Take Over Seaport Museum with $2M Grant
  51. Yet Another Reason Not to Smoke – Woman Falls Off Ferry While Lighting her Cigarette
  52. Update: Somali Pirates Free 7 Danes
  53. Tourist Complains of Fish in the Harbor – Too Smelly & Disturbing to Children
  54. MT Phoenix Finally Free from Salt Rocks, Sheffield Beach, South Africa
  55. 120 Year Old Sail Training Vessel, Leader, Dismasted off Portland Bill
  56. Waterford Tugboat Roundup Canceled
  57. Gloucester Schooner Festival 2011
  58. Great North River Tug Boat Race 2011
  59. Fin Whales Return to Wales
  60. Down-Rigging HMS Victory
  61. Eight Foot Long Whale Tooth Stolen From Museum in Norway
  62. San Diego Festival of Sail September 2 – 5th
  63. The 2011 Great North River Tugboat Race and Competition this Sunday on the Hudson
  64. Barque Picton Castle Announces New Atlantic Voyage
  65. Weird News – The Floating Feet of the Salish Sea

August 2011

  1. Juna, the Beluga – Internet Mariachi Sensation & Irene Survivor at the Mystic Aquarium
  2. Trio of Navy Ships off East Coast to Assist After Hurricane Irene
  3. Surveying the Site of the “Battle of May Island” for New Windfarm
  4. East Coast Lobster Fisheries – the Best of Times and the Worst of Times
  5. Location of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror Still A Mystery
  6. Post Irene Wrap-up: How the Ships & Boats Coped with the Storm
  7. The Long Island Express – The Hurricane of ’38
  8. Hurricane Irene Makes Landfall in North Carolina
  9. The Power of the Sea : El Nino Doubles Risk of Civil Wars
  10. New York at Port Condition X-Ray – Hurricane Irene Sweeps up the East Coast
  11. The Cutler Family Chronicals Trailer
  12. Will a Governor’s Pen Sink the Battleship USS New Jersey?
  13. Funding Available for 100 Young Sail Trainees Yearly
  14. Historic Ships Getting Trendy in the Big Apple?
  15. Update: Captain Owen Honors Can Stay in Navy Despite Lewd Video Scandal
  16. Portside NewYork Exhibit – The Maritime Role in New York on 9/11
  17. Finnish Ferry Runs Aground While the Captain Stuck in Loo
  18. Lumber schooner Wapama, Last of its Kind, to be Scrapped
  19. Winter – Movie Star Dolphin with a Prosthetic Tale
  20. Laura Dekker’s Voyage – One Year On
  21. Update: Alaskan Goo, not Eggs but Fungus
  22. Wreck of HMS Investigator Yields “Treasure Trove” of Artifacts as Search for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror Continues
  23. How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson
  24. Update: Turanor PlanetSolar, Largest Solar Powered Yacht, Survives Storm, Arrives in Hong Kong
  25. Of Sharks and Sanctuaries – Saving Sharks to Save the Reefs
  26. Manchester Ship Canal Container Barge Service – Saving Money and Cutting Carbon Emmissions
  27. An Expanded Big Ditch – the New and Improved Panama Canal
  28. HMS Queen Elizabeth’s Lower Block Three Makes First Voyage
  29. Cheating Scandal on Submarine USS Memphis
  30. USCG Barque Eagle – A Perfect Lady
  31. Today in History – Hendrick Hamel, the Sparrow Hawk and the Hermit Kingdom
  32. Australian Navy Ship to be Named After Last WWI Vet, Claude Choules
  33. The Other Russian Aircraft Carrier – the Costly Conversion of the Admiral Gorshkov to INS Vikramaditya
  34. The Tiniest Sea Monster ?
  35. Happy Birthday, Neptune!
  36. Kivalina, Alaska’s Orange Goo – Eggs, but Whose?
  37. Nautical Winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
  38. The Tall Ship Elissa : Stray Current Electrolytic Corrosion
  39. Viking Longboat Dragens Vinge Lost Off Shetland, Crew Rescued After Activating EPIRB
  40. From Varyag to Shi Lang – the Long Strange Voyage of China’s New Twenty Year Old Aircraft Carrier
  41. 2011 Great North River Tugboat Race and Competition
  42. Lt Cdr Sarah West, First Woman Appointed Commander of a Royal Navy Warship
  43. Nyad Ends Attempted Cuba-Florida Swim
  44. Roboship Unveiled in Virginia
  45. Collision at Cowes – Sailing Yacht Dismasted After Cutting in Front of Tanker
  46. New Owner and Home Port for Tallship Soren Larsen
  47. 61-year-old Diana Nyad Attempting to Swim from Cuba to Florida
  48. US Coast Guard Eagle in Brooklyn
  49. Argentine Nuclear Sub Under Construction – Threat to the Falklands?
  50. Michigan’s Great Lakes offer ‘the best shipwreck diving in the world’
  51. Captain Morgan’s 1671 Lost Fleet Found?
  52. The Amazing Cuttlefish – Kings of Camouflage
  53. Essential Knots & Hitches You May Never Need : The Highwayman’s Hitch
  54. MT Pavit on Juhu Beach – A Security Breach Big Enough to Drift a Tanker Through
  55. Coast Guard Intercepts Narco Sub with 7.5 Tons of Cocaine in Caribbean
  56. Happy 221st Birthday US Coast Guard !
  57. US Coast Guard Barque Eagle Open to the Public in Brooklyn this Weekend
  58. Polynesian Voyaging Canoes Arrive in San Francisco through the Golden Gate
  59. Ranzo, the YouTube Chanteyman
  60. The Irish Naval Service Fleet Exercises
  61. Start of Clipper Round-the-World Race
  62. The Great Schooner Race 2011 – Photography by Doug Mills

July 2011

  1. Maine Lobster Festival & “Lobster-Palooza” August 3-7th
  2. Launching the Schooner Ardelle – Essex Side Launch
  3. San Salvador, 16th Century Replica, Under Construction by the Maritime Museum of San Diego
  4. Sail Power and Steam Museum, Rockland, Maine
  5. Nautical Writers on Writing and the Age of Sail – Linda Collison Interviews Margaret Muir
  6. The American Sail Training Association is Now Tall Ships America
  7. Historic Ship Festival on Pier 25, Hudson River Park
  8. Disabled Veterans Compete in VA Summer Sports Clinic on San Diego Bay
  9. Update: Plea Bargain in Delaware Duck Boat/Barge Collision
  10. In Blistering Heat Wave, Sewage Plant Fire Keeps New Yorkers Away from the Water
  11. Update: Investigating the World Trade Center Ship Using Rings and Worms
  12. Island For Sale
  13. The Biggest Little Shipbuilder in the Netherlands
  14. The Jack-Up and the Wind Turbine
  15. Sea Chantey Festival on the Star of India
  16. USNS Bejanmin Isherwood and the USNS Henry Eckford – From the Shipyard to the Scrapyard Without a Day of Service
  17. Gato Class Submarine USS Cod Opens Fire Again
  18. Celebrity Silhouette: Traveling Backwards Down the River Ems
  19. Mystery wreck found in Swedish Baltic
  20. Project Shiphunt: Discovering the M.F. Merrick
  21. Pride of Baltimore II, U.S. Brig Niagara, and Lynx at the 2011 Duluth Music and Maritime Festival July 15 -18
  22. City of Water Day Festival 2011 in New York Harbor – July 16th
  23. Updates of Recent Posts : Cyprus, the Volga, Baja, Algeciras & Galveston
  24. 7th Annual Maine Windjammer Parade & Anniversary Party July 15
  25. Alaric Bond’s Cut and Run – A Review
  26. Mystic Seaport Wants to See Your Tattoo
  27. Death on the Volga – Cruise Vessel Bulgaria Sinks, More than 100 Dead
  28. Blast at Cypriot Naval Base a “Catastrophe of Biblical Proportions” – at Least 17 Dead
  29. One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago – William Tillman and the Privateer Jefferson Davis
  30. “Hands Free” Landing on Aircraft Carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower
  31. “The Most Beautiful Ship” – Tall Ships and Bragging Rights
  32. Tall Ships Festival at Greenock, Scotland
  33. Was the Brillante Virtuoso Ever Under Attack?
  34. Tall Ship Race Update – Christian Radich wins First Leg, Waterford Festival “an Awesome Success”
  35. Yemeni Pirate 11th to Plead Guilty in Hijacking of SV Quest Where 4 Americans were Murdered
  36. American Feeder Lines – New Short Sea Container Operator on the East Coast
  37. Semi-Submersible Drilling Rig, Transocean Marianas, Evacuated off Ghana
  38. Brillante Virtuoso, Suezmax Tanker, Set Ablaze by Pirates off Aden – Crew Safe
  39. 1877 Barque Elissa Victim of Electrolytic Corrosion – Needs $3 Million Restoration
  40. Search Continues for Seven Missing off Baja after Fishing Boat Sinks
  41. Joseph Hewes – First “Secretary of the Navy” and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  42. Update: MV Wisdom off Juhu Beach and Now On-Line
  43. Barque Eagle Honors Crew Of Lost Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamilton
  44. Great Summer Reading – Astrodene’s Historic Naval Fiction Log Book for July
  45. China Opens World’s Longest Sea Bridge
  46. No Longer Three Men in a Boat – Part 1: The Pirate Stock Exchange
  47. Schooner AJ Meerwald Returns to Liberty State Park
  48. Divers find £43million worth of Ming Dynasty pottery on shipwreck
  49. Holy Calamari, Batman – 25′ Giant Squid Found Floating off Florida

June 2011

  1. Rear Adm. Wendi B. Carpenter named President of SUNY Maritime College.
  2. Thomas Boyle, the Chasseur and the Blockade of Britain
  3. Waterford, Ireland Welcomes the Tall Ship Racers with a Quayside Festival
  4. Update: Bruce Power Puts Radioactive Waste Move through St. Lawrence on Hold
  5. Progress on the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry
  6. Update: Deadly Distraction Led to Duck Boat Deaths
  7. Found: $500k Emerald Ring from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha
  8. The Windjammer Star of India
  9. U.S. Coast Guard Punishes 7 for Sexual Hazing Aboard Cutter Venturous
  10. Day of the Seafarer – Making the World Go Round
  11. The Queen Mary 2 – Dirtier than a Queen Ought to Be
  12. Work Begins on Transporting the Clipper Ship City of Adelaide
  13. 20th Annual Mystic Seaport Wooden Boat Show
  14. Day of the Seafarer – What if the Ships and Seafarers Just Vanished?
  15. A Meandering Maiden Voyage for the World’s Largest Bulk Carrier, Vale Brasil
  16. Detroit Riverdays featuring the Appledore Schooners
  17. The Folly of the MV Wisdom
  18. Timelapse of New York Harbor
  19. Channel Island Tall Ships Festival June 24-26, 2011
  20. The Maritime Museum of San Diego
  21. USC Container Ship Al Rawdah Aground on the Reefs off Batam
  22. A New Sport? Sunken Ship Scuba Racing?
  23. University of Hawaii Research Vessel, Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa, Studies Japanese Radiation Leaks
  24. Herb Kawainui Kāne – Artist, Historian, Founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
  25. Collision between New York City Fireboats Firefighter II and 343
  26. Polynesian Voyaging Canoes Arrive in Hilo
  27. Busy Weekend in New York Harbor – Mermaids, Sloops & Song
  28. The Name Should Have been a Hint – Titanic II Sinks on Maiden Voyage
  29. Van Liew Sweeps the Velux 5 Ocean Single-Handed Around the World Race
  30. Jubilee Sailing Trust – Tall Ship Sailing Adventures for All
  31. 1871 Schooner Showdown – Historic Schooners Lewis R. French and the Stephen Taber to Race June 17th
  32. Elizabeth Fry Swims NY Harbor -Sets Three Swimming Records in One Day
  33. Cargo Sail Returns to New York – Cocoa Arrives at Red Hook
  34. Container Ship Deneb Capsizes at Dock in Algeciras
  35. America’s Cup Warm-up Capsize
  36. Gentleman Captain by J.D. Davies – A Review
  37. The Fyddeye Guide to America’s Maritime History – Book Trailer
  38. No Australian Submarines Seaworthy Either
  39. Update: Wubbo Ockles Ecolution Sailing Again
  40. MV AMET Majesty – a Cruise Ship, a Training Ship or Both?
  41. On the Trail of the Pirate Blackbeard and the Queen Anne’s Revenge
  42. Victor Mooney will make 4th Attempt at a Trans-Atlantic Row
  43. Weekend Maritime Festival Wrap-up
  44. And Then There were None – HMCS Corner Brook Accident Leaves Canada without Operational Subs
  45. 19th Annual Delaware Bay Day – June 11th
  46. “History Helping History” in the Rebuilding the Whaler Charles W. Morgan
  47. Postal Service Honors U.S. Merchant Marine with New Stamps
  48. Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet
  49. Sisters Under Sail Founder, Dawn Santamaria, awarded Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award
  50. Divers of the Lost Ark?
  51. Happy World Ocean Day
  52. Great White Sharks – Fans of AC/DC ?
  53. 32nd Annual Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport
  54. APL ‘Cold-irons’ Ships in Oakland to Cut Pollution
  55. A Roman Shipwreck with a Fish Tank ?
  56. Day of the Seafarer – Nightmare on the Sahmo Dream
  57. Halfway Around the World, Powered Only by the Sun – Solar Yacht Turanor Arrives in Brisbane
  58. Will Midwest Flooding Create Gulf Dead Zone?
  59. Raising the Anchor from Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge
  60. Rear Adm. Sandra Stosz, First Woman to Lead Military Academy
  61. The World’s Oldest Champagne Sells at Auction
  62. Greenpeace: Japan Nuclear Plant Radiation Accumulating in Marine Life
  63. A Flood of Arks? Ark Building Around the World
  64. “Don’t Give Up the Ship” – Thoughts on Sloganeering
  65. MSC Opera – Blackout & Mutiny, High Drama on the Baltic
  66. Towing Icebergs – an Idea Whose Time is Still Coming?
  67. Explosion at the Gibraltar Cruise Ship Docks

May 2011

  1. 100 Years Ago Today – the Launching of the RMS Titanic
  2. On Memorial Day – the Last Mission of the USS Olympia
  3. Cruise Ship Sea Diamond, Santorini ship wreck ‘too costly’ to remove
  4. Twilight of the $UPERfluous Carrier – Are Today’s Carrier’s Yesteryear’s Battleships?
  5. Hey Sailor – Fleet Week and Social Networking
  6. Help PortSide & Tanker Mary Whalen Create Jobs for Inner City Kids this Summer
  7. “Storm Stories! 1991: An Island Remembers”
  8. Half Moon, Replica of Henry Hudson’s ship, open for tours in Kingston, NY until June
  9. Four Groups Vie for the USS Olympia
  10. Sail Portsmouth 2011 May 27 – 30, 2011
  11. Admiral Mickey Says Never-mind
  12. Missing WWII Sub, R12, Found with 42 Entombed Sailors
  13. Fleet Week New York – Parade of Ships
  14. Congratulations to Port Side New York and the Mary Whalen
  15. Navy Trademarks “Navy Seals” and “Seal Team”
  16. The USS New York Returns to New York for Fleet Week
  17. HMS Bounty Boarded by Buccaneers in Plymouth
  18. Save our Ships Rally at the South Street Seaport
  19. Happy National Maritime Day 2011
  20. Shell’s Prelude FLNG to be the World’s Largest Floating Offshore Platform
  21. Celebrate National Maritime Day 2011 Aboard the N.S. SAVANNAH
  22. Preview of MaineSail Magazine
  23. SURGEON’S MATE by Linda Collison – A Review
  24. Six Unknown Shipwrecks Discovered in Virgin Islands Survey
  25. The Schooner Bluenose II and the Ax that Never Wears Out
  26. Rally to Save the South Street Seaport this Sunday
  27. China takes a Great Leap Forward in the Concrete Carrier Arms Race
  28. Joseph Conrad, the Tusitala, the Three Hours for Lunch Club and James Farrell
  29. Talking with Dolphins by Computer Translator?
  30. The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Shanty Session, 5/15/11
  31. Admiral Mickey Mouse & SEAL Team 6
  32. A New Plan and New Hopes for New York’s South Street Seaport Museum
  33. The SBX-1 Comes to Seattle
  34. Was the Japanese Tsunami Good for Fin Whales in Iceland?
  35. Basketball on an Aircraft Carrier?
  36. Two Constants – Bligh Reef and Human Error
  37. MV Double Prosperity Aground, Damaging Reef in Philippine’s Sarangani Bay Marine Sanctuary
  38. Happy 100th Birthday to the Barque Passat !
  39. The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor
  40. Charleston Harbor Fest – Mix of Old and New
  41. Seattle Maritime Festival 2011
  42. The “Swash Channel Wreck”, 400 Hundred Years Old, Rotting Away
  43. Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes
  44. Barge Shipping Shutdown by Record Flooding on the Mississippi and by Record Drought on China’s Yangtze
  45. Over 500 Libyan Refugees Rescued off Italy near Lampedusa Island
  46. HMS Astute Towed Back to Port After Hydraulics Failure
  47. Capture of U110 and the Enigma Machine, Seventy Years Ago Today
  48. The Snakehead Fish in New York and the ‘Godzilla’ Lionfish in the Caribbean
  49. Women Making Music with the Sea
  50. USS Michael Murphy Christened, Dedicated to Fallen SEAL
  51. El Hierro – Energy from Wind and Water
  52. America’s Cup Test Sessions: a Brave New World
  53. Tall ship Glenlee moves to new home on the Clyde at new Riverside Museum
  54. Barque Sedov, the World’s Largest Sailing Ship, on her 90th Birthday
  55. Nuclear Leak Forces Russian Icebreaker Taimyr Back to Port
  56. Claude Choules – Last World War I Combat Veteran Dies at 110
  57. Interview with Linda Collison, author of Surgeon’s Mate
  58. Remora ROV fishes out Air France Black Box
  59. Navy Fires Three Commanding Officers in One Week
  60. Captain Kidd in the News – New Exhibit at Docklands Museum and Shipwreck ‘Living Museum of the Sea’
  61. Coast Guard Tall Ship Eagle – “the Largest Confined Leadership Laboratory”
  62. Record-breaking floods force engineers to blow up Mississippi River levee
  63. Navy SEALS Kill Osama Bin Laden
  64. International Scurvy Awareness Day
  65. Update: MS Veendam’s New Nose
  66. Happy May Day, not Mayday!

April 2011

  1. The Oldest Shipwreck in the Caribbean – A Treasure in Silver and Jade
  2. Lard Ho! Coast Guard Ups the Weight for Average Passengers
  3. Update 2: Le Papillon, the Sands of Fire Island and the Backhoe
  4. The Liverpool Sea Shanty Festival Returns Song to the Docks
  5. Pegasus, Lilac and Clipper City to Dock at Pier Pier 25 in the Hudson River
  6. Rockhopper Penguins Returning From Rehab on Tristan da Cunha
  7. Beaufort Group Bids on the Cruiser Olympia
  8. On this Day in History – Kon Tiki Sets Sail
  9. Pelicans Return with a Vengance
  10. Mystery 18th Century Shipwreck Found in the Gulf of Finland
  11. The Scuttling of the MSC Chitra
  12. Ohio River Great Steamboat Race Threatened by High water
  13. Flying the Flag, Fleeing the State – Missing the Point
  14. Russian submarine to participate in first-ever naval exercise with NATO warships
  15. 75 years of Maine Windjammer Cruises
  16. Cyclone Reveals Unbury Island’s 130-Year-Old Shipwreck
  17. Storytelling at the Bivalve Shipping Sheds
  18. Update: Duck Boats Return to the Delaware
  19. Safety – the Forest or the Trees on the Deepwater Horizon?
  20. Whisky Bottles Still Washing Up From the Wreck of the Sailing Ship Stuart – 110 years ago
  21. Update: World’s Oldest Champagne Going on the Block in June
  22. Record Number of Right Whales off Cape Cod
  23. Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet
  24. Douglas Faulkner and the MV Derbyshire
  25. BP Oil Spill – One Year Later, Some Good News and Lots of Bad
  26. Hijacked MV Asphalt Venture – Ransom Paid, Hostages Kept
  27. Fishtown Shadfest
  28. Brad Van Liew Arriving Charleston Today, Winning Fourth Leg of Velux Five Oceans
  29. Extreme Sailing – A Video for a Monday Morning
  30. Update: Le Papillon and the Sands of Fire Island
  31. Sloop Providence Sails Again
  32. Internet mistake reveals UK nuclear submarine secrets
  33. Hard Times at Two Seaport Museums – South Street and Independence
  34. Loss of HMS Affray – Sixty Years Ago Today
  35. A Wind In Her Sails – Interview with Maho Noborisaka on the Soren Larsen
  36. Owner’s Manual for a Sunken Ship – RMS Titanic Manual: 1909-1912 Olympic Class
  37. The Titanic – from Maritime Tragedy to Pop Culture Icon
  38. The Toilet that Sank the Submarine
  39. Hunt the Rats on the USS Massachusetts
  40. Seaport Museum Founders Offer New Plan to Keep Institution Afloat
  41. The Plastic Puffins of Ramsey Island
  42. Update: HMAS Adelaide Finally Scuttled
  43. Navy Tests New Laser Weapon at Sea
  44. The Final Journey of the Willis Avenue Bridge
  45. Chance to Win Stay at Historical U.S. Coast Guard Crews Quarters & Visit Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
  46. Happy Birthday, U.S. Submarine Force: 111 Today
  47. TALL SHIPS: THE PRIVATEER LYNX
  48. What is happening in the Gulf of Mexico? Public Relations, Dead Turtles and Dolphins
  49. Tragedy on the HMS Astute: Update
  50. Virgin Oceanic Diving into the Deep
  51. What the Tsunami Carried Away – Debris at Sea
  52. Fatal Shooting on the Nuclear Submarine HMS Astute
  53. The Sands of Fire Island – Le Papillon and Gluckauf
  54. 85 year old, Anthony Smith, Crosses the Atlantic on Raft “An-Tiki”
  55. Concerns Over Radiation Spread Faster than the Currents
  56. Tall Ship Elissa in Space and a Possible Rodent Problem
  57. Escaping from Libya, Overloaded Boat Sinks, 250 Passengers Missing
  58. Slavery at sea ? Abuse of Sailors on New Zealand Chartered Fishing Vessles
  59. HMS Bounty to Begin European Voyage
  60. Of Tsunamis and Seawalls
  61. Air France 447 Wreck Site Located in Atlantic off Brazil
  62. Laura Dekker, Singlehanding the Media Circus
  63. Sailors and Society in Georgian England
  64. PT 658 – The Last Running PT Boat
  65. Nightingale Island Spill – Race to Rescue the Rockhoppers
  66. Ark Royal for Sale Online
  67. Turning a Blind Eye – Nelson at Copenhagen
  68. Women at Sea and the SB What?
  69. Astrodene’s Historic Naval Fiction Log Book
  70. Bankruptcy on the Horizon? Horizon Lines Weighs April Filing

March 2011

  1. Wind Speeds and Wave Heights Rising
  2. Holy Flying Fish! – A Mako Shark and an Eagle Ray Jump Aboard
  3. Odyssey Searching for the S.S. Gairsoppa and $260 million in Silver
  4. Arresting versus Disrupting Pirates
  5. The Shipwreck Behind Crane’s “The Open Boat”
  6. More Treasure from the Atocha – 17th century gold chain worth $250,000
  7. The Warship, the Watermill and a Ship’s Plans Delayed
  8. Indian Navy Captures 16 Pirates, Frees 16 Hostages
  9. Skin and Bones – Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor
  10. New Identity for Arctic Explorer Emerges 140 Years Later
  11. Ferry Condor Vitesse Collides with Fishing Boat, Fisherman Killed
  12. The Fourth Leg of the Velux Five Oceans Singlehanded Round the World Race Underway
  13. Sion Milosky, Big Wave Rider
  14. The Six Frigates – Birth of the US Navy
  15. Happy Birthday Nathaniel Bowditch, America’s Practical Navigator
  16. Harold ‘Dynamite’ Payson – Boatbuilder, Writer, Father of “Instant Boats”
  17. The Marvelous Mind of an Octopus, yes, an Octopus
  18. Like a Robin in Springtime, Shipping Returns to the Great Lakes
  19. Today in Submarine History – the Short, Sorry Saga of the USS Lancefish
  20. Earth Hour Twilight Cruise on the Tall Ship Southern Swan
  21. New Zealand Model Fleets to do Battle
  22. Shipping Out, the Story of America’s Seafaring Women
  23. No. 18 Kyotoku-maru – the Ghost Ship of Kesennuma
  24. Sinking of the Yongala – March 23rd, 1911
  25. Tallship Soren Larsen – New Zealand March 2011
  26. “Super Moon” Blamed for Five Groundings
  27. Update: Bulker Olivia Still Leaking Oil, Threatening Bird Life on Nightingale Island
  28. Return of Seals to New York Harbor and the Unexpected Migration of Harp Seals
  29. Lecture on Modern Piracy at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
  30. On this day in History – the Birth of the Dutch East India Company
  31. Claude Choules – Last World War I Combat Veteran Celebrates 110th Birthday
  32. Relaunching of the Thames Sailing Barge Cambria
  33. Rum’s in the family – Ipswich distillery inspired by privateer ancestor
  34. Bulker MV Oliva Breaking-up on Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha
  35. U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle begins 75th-anniversary Tour
  36. Super Full Moon!
  37. Artist Required for The Tall Ships Races 2011 onboard Gaff Ketch Swan
  38. Shipwreck Furniture
  39. Interview with a Multi-millionaire Pirate
  40. Happy Maewyn Succat’s Day
  41. Tom Hanks to Play Captain Richard Phillips in Maersk Alabama Hijacking Movie
  42. Update: Wisdom, the Albatross, Survives Tsunami
  43. A Country in Trouble – A Glimpse of Post-Tsunami Japan
  44. WWI German Submarine U-106 found off Dutch coast
  45. Life Plus 80 Years – Five Pirates Sentenced for Attack on USS Nicholas
  46. A Celebration of the Trireme at the Mariners’ Museum
  47. Farewell to HMS Ark Royal
  48. Has the Lost City of Atlantis Been Found in a Spanish Marsh?
  49. INS Kalpeni Nabs 61 Pirates on Mother Ship, Frees 13 Hostages
  50. Washed Away: Three Tsunami-Swept Towns
  51. U.S. 7th Fleet Moves Away from Stricken Nuclear Plants; Another Reactor Explosion
  52. Pirates on Trial – Has the Game Changed?
  53. How to Help Victims of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
  54. NZ’s only sub commander celebrates 100
  55. The Power of Water – A Town Swept Away and Reactors Melting Down
  56. A Hawaiian Tsunami – National Geographic Simulation
  57. Aftermath of the Tsunami – Explosion at Nuclear Power Plant, Five Reactors at Risk
  58. 32nd Annual Snow Row at the Hull Lifesaving Museum
  59. Huge 8.9 Earthquake off Japan Triggers Tsunami , Tsunami Warnings in Hawaii and USS West Coast
  60. The Oldest Albatross, a Mother at 60!
  61. Maersk Alabama Attacked for the Third Time – Will Armed Guards on Merchant Ships Become the Norm?
  62. Red Sea Piracy may be going Multinational
  63. Something Fishy in Redondo – A Million Dead Sardines
  64. On International Women’s Day – An interview with Rescue Swimmer Sarah Faulkner
  65. New Owner Sought for Cruiser Olympia
  66. U.S. Commandos Retake Tanker MV Guanabara From Pirates
  67. Mate on the Phone With his Mother During Collision with Duck Boat
  68. Did Vikings Navigate with ‘Sunstones’?
  69. Adjust Your Compass Now: the North Pole is Migrating to Russia
  70. Update: XO Movie Night on the Enterprise – the Admiral’s Report
  71. Commander Nigel Matthews
  72. eNotated Edition of Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World – A Review
  73. Two Museums, Two Coasts, Very Different Prospects
  74. The Fate of HMS Beagle After Darwin´s Voyage to the Galapagos Islands
  75. Nuclear plant leak in Antarctica suspected of causing cancer
  76. The Fyddeye Guide to America’s Maritime History edited by Joe Follansbee, on Kindle – A Dual Review
  77. Commander Christopher Biggins – Captain of the Omani sail training ship SHABAB OMAN
  78. Henry Morgan’s Cannons Found in Panama
  79. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett Busts Midget Sub Loaded with Cocaine
  80. Innovative sails for container ships – in development ??? Maybe not.
  81. U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet, “Queen of the Fleet,” for Sale
  82. Gold Rush Tunes from the Depths of Lake Labarge
  83. Brad Van Liew Wins Third Leg of Velux 5 Oceans
  84. The Marine Quarterly – A Journal of the Sea
  85. World’s oldest aircraft carrier? Well literally yes, sort off
  86. Save Our Seafarers – 2,000 Somali Pirates are Hijacking the World Economy
  87. First Permit to Restart Deep Water Drilling
  88. Containership Cruising?

February 2011

  1. Somali pirates seize Danish family including three children in Indian Ocean
  2. Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster by John Konrad and Tom Shroder
  3. NYC rower tries for third time to cross Atlantic
  4. Poppa Neutrino – Free Spirit and Raft Builder
  5. Maersk Triple E Class Ships – the VLCCS of Container shipping?
  6. Queenly Rendezvous All Over – Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Mary
  7. Iranian Navy Ships Dock in Syria and US Chartered Ferry Finally Reaches Malta
  8. Founder and First Seaport Museum President Calls for Resignations
  9. Off Antarctica, Hope Fades for Crew of Yacht Berserk
  10. 14th Annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon
  11. Kayaking with Feeding Humpback Whales
  12. Weekend Round-up – Chicago Maritime Festival, New England Boat Show, and Big U Fundraiser
  13. Velux 5 Oceans Update: Rounding Cape Horn
  14. Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth Rendezvous in Sydney
  15. Why did the Pirates Kill their Hostages ?
  16. Iranian Navy Ships Transit the Suez Canal – First Since 1979
  17. Pirates Kill American Hostages on SV Quest
  18. Gulf spill’s effects ‘may not be seen for a decade’
  19. Update ; Hijacked SV Quest Split from Group; Now Trailed by US Navy
  20. RMS Queen Elizabeth 1948
  21. The Rise and Fall of the South Street Seaport Museum
  22. A Blog for the ‘Sixth Borough’ – Tugster in the New York Times
  23. Pirates Capture Four Americans on Yacht in Indian Ocean
  24. Losing the War on Piracy – A Lack of Political Will
  25. Japan Halts Whale Hunt, or Does it?
  26. The Legend of Sadie, the Goat – Hudson River Pirate
  27. Oyster Apocalypse?
  28. Shipwreck’s ‘oldest beer’ to be brewed again
  29. Update: Opposition to Shipping Nuclear Waste on the Great Lakes
  30. New York’s Seaport Museum Struggles to Stay Afloat
  31. Barge Waldhof Finally Raised from Rhine River
  32. Valentine Islands
  33. Happy Battle of Cape St. Vincent’s day
  34. Sailors’ Valentines – Better than a Hallmark Card
  35. Water Bloggers at the Oldest Working Bar in New York
  36. Recent Watercolor by Hans Breeman – MV Rotte
  37. Update: HMS Invincible Sold to Turkish Scrappers
  38. Always Summer Somewhere – Sailing on the Tall Ship Soren Larsen
  39. The Two Brothers and the Two Captains – Who was Unlucky?
  40. Record Crowds Expected for Hobart Wooden Boat Festival
  41. Rear-Admiral Peter Branson
  42. Carnival Splendor Set to Sail from San Francisco
  43. Ocean Rowing – Chafe, Nudity and Intimate Sores
  44. Atlantic Rowing Record Set Twice in Two Days – Team Hallin and Sarah G
  45. Update: Wreck of the Waldhof – Controlled Release of Sulphuric Acid into the Rhine
  46. Pirates Hijack Two Tankers in Two Days – MV Savina Caylyn & MV Irene SL
  47. Remembering the Normandie
  48. Shipping of Nuclear Waste Approved on the Great Lakes
  49. Wet And Wild Start For VELUX 5 OCEANS Sprint Three
  50. On Jules Verne’s Birthday – A Look at the Submarines named Nautilus
  51. Salazar, Chu Announce Major Offshore Wind Initiatives
  52. The Rendevous of the Last Two Ocean-going Royal Mail Ships
  53. Update : Collision in Mumbai – Indian Navy and the Mumbai Port Trust at Fault ?
  54. A Spice Problem in the Navy?
  55. Sail this summer on the Picton Castle
  56. Once Upon a Blonde Island?
  57. Trimaran Banque Populaire V hits a UFO (an Unidentified Floating Object)
  58. Spirit of South Carolina Tall Ship program
  59. Lieutenant Noel Cashford
  60. Santy Anno sung by The Hard Tackers
  61. Passengers on Antarctic cruise ship, Polar Star, to be evacuated after grounding
  62. Coast Guard Cutter Morro Bay Rescues Man on an Ice Flow on His Birthday
  63. Before IMAX, there was Windjammer in “Cinemiracle”
  64. In the Belly of the Beast – A look inside the SS United States
  65. The Big U purchased by Conservancy
  66. Suez Canal Operating Normally, Port Closures Causing Concerns

January 2011

  1. Collision in Mumbai – INS Vindhyagiri & MV Nordlake
  2. Experts race the clock to preserve N.C. Corolla shipwreck
  3. Whales Return to New York City
  4. Hundreds of ships stuck as Rhine still blocked by Waldhof shipwreck
  5. Choice of Broadsides – Kindle Text Game, a Review
  6. Sweetheart Cruise and Sailor’s Valentines
  7. What if Hitler Made a Titanic Movie? (He Did)
  8. Indian Navy’s New “Beautiful Lady” – Sail Training Ship INS Sudarshini
  9. Restoration work for HMS Victory
  10. Historic steamship SS Shieldhall needs £80,000 to keep sailing
  11. Was the Gorch Fock “Germany’s largest floating brothel?”
  12. Piano on a Sandbar: Mystery Solved
  13. 175th Australia Day Regatta
  14. Waterfront Webcams – Bluenose II and the “Tea Party” ship
  15. German Submarine UC42 Rediscovered in Cork Harbor
  16. The Kelly Brothers – Starship Sailors
  17. The Pineapple has landed – 5 missing Americans arrive in Philippines
  18. Pride and Piracy: The Diary of Captain Bartholomew Sharpe
  19. LEGO Love Boat – LEGO Mania at its Finest
  20. Carnival Splendor Arrives in San Francisco for Drydocking and to Complete Repairs
  21. Blocked Rhine River – Sulphuric Acid Barge at the Lorelei Rock
  22. Trimaran Banque Populaire Attempts to Win Jules Verne Trophy
  23. Commander of Gorch Fock Dismissed, Ship Ordered Home
  24. Glimpse at the New Mary Rose Museum – Carpenter’s Cabin Display
  25. Are the Chinese Still Haunted by HEIC Nemesis – the Devil Ship?
  26. Mutiny on the Gorch Fock ?
  27. Group Campaigning to Move the USS Olympia to San Francisco
  28. Speed Dating – Nelson Style !?!
  29. San Diego Big Bay Whale Days & Whale Festival
  30. Joan Druett’s Tupaia – Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator : A Review
  31. The Strange Case of the Dutch Ship Leopard – Missing Crew, Arms Cargo Intact
  32. “Hasan Reis” sinks, 22 Afghan immigrants die near Corfu
  33. A Pier for Historic Ships on the Hudson?
  34. How to Photograph a Whale
  35. Brad van Liew blasts into Wellington winning second leg of the Velux 5 Oceans Race
  36. The Port of Port-au-Prince – One Year after the Earthquake
  37. Cunard Takes Manhattan – The Three Queens Rendezvous in the Harbor
  38. Retirement of Admiral on Hold in Video Inquiry
  39. Congratulations to the Historic Vessel Vega
  40. Drugs on Cruise Ships? Going after Small Timers or Serious Smugglers ?
  41. Cutty Sark Made From LEGO
  42. Tragedy from King’s Point to Tucson
  43. The Three Cunard Queens Rendezvous in New York Harbor
  44. HMS Victory rotting and being pulled apart under its own weight
  45. Wreck of Perry’s USS Revenge reported found on 200th anniversary
  46. Death on the Volendam in Lyttelton Harbour – crew member killed in lifeboat accident
  47. MS Veendam off Cape Horn
  48. The Tale of the Mermaid Pods – Carnival Awarded $24 million in lawsuit with Rolls Royce
  49. Death at Sea – A question of jurisdiction
  50. USS Kittiwake Sleeps with the Fishes
  51. Cruise Industry Changes – Boston Sets Record, Philly Pulling Out, and Cruises Returning to Cuba
  52. Videos that didn’t get the Captain fired
  53. Moby Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
  54. Cockleshell Heroes – The Final Witness, a new book by Quentin Rees
  55. Sea Shepherds Hurt Efforts to Reduce Whaling – WikiLeaks
  56. The Mighty Moth with a Wing Sail – Wow !
  57. Captain Owen Honors relieved of duty on USS Enterprise
  58. The face that launched a stolen skiff – the siren behind the odyssey
  59. Ancient Seafarers & Crete, What Again?
  60. Beginning the New Year – A Sinking, Pirate Hijacking, Round the World Race and Smoke-Free Subs
  61. XO Movie Night on USS Enterprise – a bad idea
  62. America’s Cup to be sailed in San Francisco in 2013

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