The Curious Engineer

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2012–2013

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December 2013

  1. Cape Wind Beats the Deadline — Signs Deal for Offshore Wind Turbines
  2. MV Akademik Shokalskiy Still Stuck — Third Icebreaker, Aurora Australis, Turns Back
  3. Another Container Ship Cracking – MSC Monterey Anchored off Newfoundland
  4. Sharks – Photobombing and Posting on Twitter
  5. Global Ship Traffic — Then and Now
  6. Icebreaker Snow Dragon Now Stuck in Ice, Six Miles from MV Akademik Shokalskiy
  7. Icebreaker Snow Dragon on Horizon with Penguins!
  8. Stuck in Antarctic Ice – Snow Dragon Underway to Rescue MV Akademik Shokalskiy
  9. Sting – Christmas At Sea (Live from Durham Cathedral)
  10. Doug Webb, Slocum Gliders and the GliderPaloosa
  11. The Miniature Ship Red, White, and Blue
  12. 50 Years Later, Remembering the Lakonia Disaster
  13. German WWI U-Boat UB-122 on the Mudflats of the River Medway
  14. Congratulations to Vice Admiral Michelle Howard, Nominated to be Vice Chief of Naval Operations.
  15. Sailors Leaving their Mark — Ship Graffiti
  16. WWII Cruiser HMAS Perth Stripped by Scrap Merchants off Java
  17. Earth — Global Weather Visualized
  18. Blackfish, Backlash and the Bailing of the Bands from SeaWorld
  19. Fiona Shaw Performs ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
  20. Poon Lim, Surviving a Record 133 Days at Sea — “I hope no one will ever have to break it.”
  21. Oru – the Amazing Origami Kayak
  22. Fishlove 2013 — Celebrities Posing Naked with Dead Fish
  23. Learn to Sail the Star of India
  24. Schooner Lettie G. Howard Returns to New York’s South Street Seaport
  25. Will Legendary Socotra Rock Be Latest International Flash Point?
  26. USS Oklahoma — December 7, 1941 And Beyond
  27. Canada to Claim North Pole — Status of Santa Uncertain
  28. Rediscovering the Japanese Aircraft-Carrier Submarine I-400 — Scuttled During the Cold War
  29. Nigerian Tug Cook Survives Three Days in Sunken Tug 100 Feet Below the Atlantic
  30. MV Cape Ray to Destroy Syria’s Most Dangerous Chemical Weapons at Sea
  31. Taking the 132′ Victoria Clipper Passenger Ferry for a Joy Ride
  32. Bon Voyage to Captain Stanley Paris and the Kiwi Spirit
  33. Incredible Photos – Beauty & the Belugas & the Darker Backstory

November 2013

  1. Sailing the Lugger Greyhound — View From Aloft
  2. The Zong Massacre, General Average and Abolition
  3. Diving the Wreck of the Steamer Florida in Lake Huron off Presque Isle, Michigan
  4. Side Launching of New Sail Training Ship for Royal Navy of Oman — Nobody Panic
  5. The Old Man and the Sea – an Amazing Animated Short Film
  6. Happy Evacuation Day!
  7. Mourning Ming the Mollusk – 507 Years Old
  8. Diving Coral Reefs and Wrecks Without Getting Wet with Google Sea View
  9. New Volcanic Island Rises Off Japan
  10. Lifting the Clipper City of Adelaide Aboard Heavy-lift MV Palanpur For Her Voyage Home
  11. USS Freedom, Continued Break Downs in Singapore, Troubled LCS Program Facing Cuts
  12. Pods Strike Again – RCCL’s Allure of the Seas Pulled for Repairs
  13. St. Mary’s Challenger and the Majestic Fresh Water Ocean
  14. Long Delayed Refurbished Russian Aircraft Carrier Finally Commissioned by India as INS Vikramaditya
  15. Working Sail – the Pilot Boats of Bristol
  16. USS Chancellorsville Hit By its Own Drone, Two Sailors Injured
  17. Statia, the First Salute, the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War & Admiral Rodney
  18. BBC News – What is Making the Philippines Relief Effort So Difficult?
  19. Drifting Antarctic Ice Island Could Be Peril to Shipping
  20. Sailing the Viking Longship Saga Oseberg
  21. Scyphomedusa Deepstaria – Another Very Real Sea Monster
  22. Update: Two Americans Kidnapped from Supply Boat C-Retriever Off Nigeria Released
  23. USS George Washington Battle Group Steaming Toward the Philippines
  24. USS New York Calls in New York for Veterans Day – Are the San Antonio Class Problems Fixed?
  25. Over 10,000 Feared Dead in the Philippines in Aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan
  26. The Ocean is Broken
  27. Fat Leonard, Prostitutes, & Lady Gaga Tickets — Third Officer Charged in Navy Bribery Scandal
  28. Underwater Gliders Gather Data to Help Predict Hurricanes
  29. Super Typhoon Haiyan, One of the Strongest Storms in History, Pounds the Philippines
  30. Star of India, 150 Years Old & Still Sailing
  31. The Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Has a New Captain — Richard “Kip” Files
  32. Navy Promises to Cut Costs As Christening of $12.9 Billion USS Gerald R. Ford Approaches
  33. A Video for a Monday Morning — One Australia, Yachting’s Answer to the Titanic
  34. Will a Maine Lobsterman’s Union Succeed?
  35. Five Cannons from Blackbeard’s Flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge Raised From Beaufort Inlet
  36. Assassins Creed IV : Black Flag – Slaughter, Mayhem & Shanty Singing Pirates ?
  37. When Not All is Lost – Three Tales of Survivors of Sinking Sailboats

October 2013

  1. Graves of Arthur Kill
  2. On Halloween – Skeletal Super-yacht Designs
  3. Vermont Sail Freight Project – Food For Sail
  4. Google’s Giant Magical Mystery Barges — Data Centers, Google Glass Stores or Borg Ships?
  5. Remembering the Bounty and Superstorm Sandy — One Year Ago Today
  6. A Barge Calls in Brooklyn (& Manhattan) – Shopping at the Vermont Sail Freight Project
  7. Interview with Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Director of “Blackfish”
  8. If Oarfish Predict Earthquakes, They are Doing a Really Lousy Job
  9. The Hum Heard Round the World – From Sausalito to Seattle to Southhampton, Mating Midshipmen Fish Keeping the Neighbors Awake
  10. Pirates Sieze American Captain and Chief Engineer from Supply Boat C-Retriever off Nigeria
  11. The One Penny Aircraft Carrier and the Seven Billion Dollar Destroyer
  12. Blackfish, Blackstone and the Great Vampire Squid
  13. Second Oarfish Washes Up on Southern California Coast
  14. USS Constitution Launched October 21, 1797
  15. Happy Trafalgar Day!
  16. Class A Shines in the 2013 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race
  17. All is Lost, Robert Redford as Solo Sailor – a Review
  18. City of Adelaide – a Ship Renamed, a Duke Showered in Champagne, & Funding Approved
  19. One Hundred Ninety-Nine Years Ago Today – The London Beer Flood of 1814
  20. Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race 2013
  21. 18′ Oar Fish Found Off Catalina Island
  22. Gallipoli Veteran, HMS M33, to be Restored in Time for 100th Anniversary
  23. JEROS, Terminator Robots Shred Jellyfish Hordes with Rotating Blades of Death
  24. A Straight Line on a Spherical Earth – 20,000 Mile Great Circe Route
  25. Second Migrant Boat in a Week Capsizes Near Lampedusa, 221 Rescued, at Least 27 Dead
  26. AC72 and the Evolution of the America’s Cup
  27. RN Officer Denies Steering Yacht Too Close to Tanker — Really?
  28. By Boat & Bicycle — Angus Expedition Rowboat with Bicycle & Trailer Aboard
  29. American Eagle For Sale — An Appreciation of a Classic Schooner
  30. Happy World Octopus Day ! The Marvelous Mind of an Octopus
  31. A New Plan to Save the USS Olympia
  32. Time Lapse of Building the Maersk Triple E Container Ship
  33. Vermont Sail Freight Project’s Ceres Setting Sail
  34. Pedaling on the Water – BayCycle, Shuttle-Bike, Akwakat, Hobie Mirage and More
  35. An All Too Familiar Tragedy — At Least 130 Dead and 200 Missing Off Lampedusa
  36. A Tale of Two Pirate Roberts – Bartholomew Roberts of 1722 & Ross Ulbricht, the Dread Pirate Roberts of 2013
  37. Phony Poker Chips and the Nuclear Admiral
  38. US Navy Bribery Scandal Probe Expanding – Navy Captain, NCIS Agent & Contractor Charged, Second Captain Relieved of Command
  39. Jellyfish Invasion Shuts Down Swedish Reactor – A Sign of the Jellyfish Apocalypse?
  40. New York Vineyard Owner Restoring Gen. Patton’s Schooner, When and If
  41. Historic Clipper City of Adelaide’s Voyage Home in Limbo? Will New Government Write the Check?

September 2013

  1. Flaming Duck on the River Thames – 30 Passengers Escape with Minor Injuries
  2. Weird & Deadly Floods : The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
  3. New Review from Historic Naval Fiction: Turn a Blind Eye by Alaric Bond
  4. Guess Who Arrived in Pittsburgh Yesterday Afternoon?
  5. City of Adelaide at Chatham, UK
  6. Matson’s Massive Molasses Mess – Bitter Aftermath of a Sticky Sweet Spill
  7. Congratulations to Oracle Team USA! A Comeback For the Ages – America’s Cup Stays in America
  8. The Final America’s Cup Race – Winner Take All
  9. Russia to Charge Greenpeace Activists with Piracy
  10. Big Problems on the Royal Princess — New Ship Taken Out of Service After Power Outage
  11. America’s Cup – Oracle Rebounds with a Vengence
  12. Update: Brig Astrid Bound for the Scrap Yard
  13. Secrets Hidden in a Whale’s Ear
  14. Nautical Blog Hop & A Week of Windjammers – Remembering the Pamir, Last Cargo Carrying Windjammer
  15. Nautical Blog Hop and A Week Of Windjammers – The Wave No One Believed
  16. UBC Wins First Prize in Safe Affordable Ferry Design Competition
  17. Happy Birthday to the Old Salt Blog & Thank You for Not Talking Like A Pirate
  18. Nautical Blog Hop & a Week of Windjammers: Day Two – Is History Just a Sea Story?
  19. Weigh Anchor Nautical Blog Hop, Day 1: Windjammers – Not Dead, Not Even Past
  20. Costa Concordia – Ship Rolled Upright in Most Challenging Phase of Salvage
  21. Weigh Anchor Nautical Blog Hop & A Week of Windjammers
  22. Update: Gunfire at the Washington Navy Yard – At Least Twelve Dead
  23. America’s Cup – Oracle Charges Back, But is it Too Late?
  24. Costa Concordia Salvage – Live Video Feed
  25. Costa Concordia Parbuckling Salvage Begins
  26. AC Race 8 – Team New Zealand Nearly Capsizes, Oracle Picks Up a Win and Momentum
  27. “Parbuckling” the Costa Concordia & a Little Matter of Tonnage
  28. Scout TransAtlantic – Autonomous Robotic Boat Battling the Atlantic Ocean
  29. Emirates Team New Zealand Wins Races 6 & 7 – Only Three More Wins Needed to Take the Cup
  30. Update: Salvaging Astrid
  31. Picton Castle Apprenticeship
  32. Kiwis Thrash Team Oracle in AC Race Five, Oracle Calls Time Out, Score: 4 to Minus 1
  33. First Annual Connecticut Schooner Festival
  34. An American Dunkirk – Looking Back on 9/11 Twelve Years Later
  35. Smoke on the Water – Crew Sets 30 Tons of Hashish on Fire on Cargo Ship Gold Star
  36. Bicentennial of the Battle of Lake Erie at Put-in-Bay, Ohio & a 90 Second Animated Battle
  37. Update: Matt Rutherford and the Wolfhound – Swan 48 Still Adrift Despite Salvage Attempt
  38. Bayshore Center’s Celebration of Oysters & the A.J. Meerwald’s 85th Birthday
  39. Composite Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Afloat At Last – First Leg of Her Way Home
  40. Tamu Massif, Earth’s Largest Volcano, Beneath the Pacific Ocean
  41. Happy Birthday to the A.J. Meerwald, New Jersey’s Official Tall Ship
  42. Barque Peking Open to Visitors Again for Seven Saturdays at South Street Seaport
  43. Monterey Bay Megapod – Humpbacks, Dolphins, & Sea Lions, Oh My!
  44. Captain Wanted for 172 Year Old Whaling Ship, Charles W. Morgan – No Captain Ahabs Need Apply
  45. Video of RPG Attack on Cosco Asia in Suez Canal
  46. Toshiba Tall Ships Festival at Dana Point
  47. Tugs, Tugs and More Tugs – Photos from the Race and the Waterford Tugboat Roundup
  48. Australian Salt Water Crocodiles – Kayaker Trapped on Remote Island & Swimmer Who Wasn’t As Lucky
  49. Gloucester Schooner Festival and Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta 2013
  50. Diane Nyad – First Person to Swim from Cuba to Florida, 110 Miles, Without a Shark Cage
  51. Diana Nyad Nearing 5 Mile Countdown to Key West in Epic Cuba-to-Florida Swim
  52. Tall Ship Unicorn for Sale
  53. Failed Attack on Container Ship Cosco Asia in the Suez Canal
  54. America’s Cup AC 72s – Flying on the Water

August 2013

  1. Under Fire in Libya – the Continuing Saga of the Ore/Oiler “A Whale”
  2. Labor Day Festivities – Festival of Sail in San Diego and 21st Annual Great North River Tug Boat Race and Competition in New York
  3. Dick Newick – Revolutionary Multihull Designer
  4. 29th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival – Labor Day Weekend August 30 to September 1, 2013
  5. Shanghai Roasts the “Rubber Duck”
  6. Wreck of Steamer Robert J. Walker, Sunk in 1860, Identified Off New Jersey Coast
  7. Louisa Jo Killen, British Folk Song and Shanty Singer, Dies at 79
  8. “We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours” – Commemorating the Battle of Lake Erie 2013
  9. Composite Clipper City of Adelaide Soon on her Way to Australia, or Not
  10. Strange Carcass Washes up on Villaricos Beach – Spanish “Sea Monster” a Giant Oar Fish?
  11. Oliver Hazard Perry, “Hero of Lake Erie” – Born and Died on August 23rd
  12. Celebrity Millennium Out for Rest of Season – More Pod Propulsion Problems
  13. Forget the Sharks, Watch out for the Hovercraft – a Surprise Visitor to a Russian Beach
  14. The Ecology and Economics of Lobster – Will The Maine Lobster Boom End in a Bust?
  15. USS Iowa & the Howell Torpedo No 24
  16. Americas Cup Demolition Derby Continues – Three Races, Three Breakdowns; Investigation on Oracle Cheating
  17. 400 Year Old Swash Channel Wreck Still a Mystery
  18. The 2013 America’s Cup – an Expensive & Dangerous Farce?
  19. The Shackleton or Leonard Hussey’s Banjo Reborn
  20. Ship Happens! Visualizing the Oliver Hazard Perry and the OHP Photo Blog
  21. Shipworms, Whale Bones and Shackleton’s Endurance
  22. Beware the Red-Bellied Pacu? Testicle-Biting Fish Invading Denmark?
  23. Massive Explosion & Fire Sinks Indian Submarine INS Sindhurakshak at Dock in Mumbai
  24. Religious Zeal No Substitute for Seamanship – Extremist Family Rescued in the Pacific
  25. Baja by Erick Higuera – Amazing Award Winning Short
  26. Margaret Muir’s Admiralty Orders Released – Floating Gold Free for Three Days!
  27. India Joins the Nuclear Sub Club – INS Arihant, First Indian Built Nuclear Sub Ready for Sea Trials
  28. The Discovery Channel Makes You Stupid – Sharks, Lies, and Videotape
  29. Barque Picton Castle to the Rescue but No Luck for Yacht Gobo
  30. Joan Druett’s The Elephant Voyage – Free Today and Tomorrow on Kindle!
  31. V.E. Ulett’s Captain Blackwell’s Prize – A Review
  32. Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives – Will Discovery Channel Fiction as Fact Come Back to Bite Them?
  33. Turn a Blind Eye by Alaric Bond – A Review
  34. Hardtackers’ Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates – A Review
  35. Culture Watch – More Sharknado & Mermaids as the New Vampires
  36. All is Lost – Robert Redford as Singlehander Struggling to Survive
  37. On Herman Melville’s Birthday – A Virtual Pilgrimage to His Birthplace

July 2013

  1. Joan Druett’s The Elephant Voyage – A Review
  2. How Secure is Shipboard GPS? Not Very – GPS Spoofing Takes Control of $80MM Yacht
  3. Historic Spitbank Fort Reborn as Luxury Hotel
  4. Tragedy on the Hudson – Speed Boat Hits Construction Barge, Bride-to-be Dead, Fiance Injured, Best Man Missing
  5. “Shellshocked: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves” at the Noble Maritime Collection
  6. The Tsunami, the Trimaran and Transpac – Lending Club Damaged by Debris
  7. Dutch Sail Training Ship, Astrid, Lost off Cork, Ireland – Crew of 30 Rescued
  8. Vintage Yacht Dorade Wins Transpac Again, 77 Years After First Transpac Victory!
  9. Odyssey Retrieves Additional 61 Tons of Silver from SS Gairsoppa, Three Miles Deep
  10. The Charles W. Morgan and the Synchrolift
  11. Fighting Whaling in Court and in Port as Iceland Resumes Fin Whale Hunting
  12. Somali Pirates on Facebook? UN Complains of Pirates on Social Media
  13. 1841 Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Launching July 21st – Watch it Live on Webcam!
  14. Five Guilty in Costa Concordia Sinking; Captain Schettino’s Trial Continues
  15. SeaWorld – Blackfish, Blackstone & the Fight Over a Documentary
  16. Were There Once Oceans on Mars?
  17. The Mystery of North Korea’s Chong Chon Gang – Smuggling What, to Where, and Why?
  18. Sixth Annual City of Water Day in New York Harbor – Saturday July 20th
  19. Hoboken’s Loss is Brooklyn’s Gain as Historic Ferry Yankee Crosses New York Harbor to Red Hook
  20. Sidonie’s Message in a Bottle Returns Home
  21. Darwin, Australia’s Beer Can Regatta
  22. Sharknado Frenzy Engulfs Social Media – What is it About Bad Shark Horror Movies?
  23. Engineer from Dutch Wylde Swan Lost in Attempt to Assist Sinking Wyvern
  24. Salty Dog 502, X-47B Drone, First to Land on Aircraft Carrier
  25. Update: Fore Section of MOL Comfort Also Sinks After Fire and Attempted Tow
  26. Gaff Ketch Wyvern Sinks in Tall Ship Race from Aarhus to Helsinki
  27. Groups from Mare Island and Port Royal Still Trying to Save USS Olympia
  28. Interim President and Transitional Board Appointed for New York’s South Street Seaport Museum
  29. Our New 40 Year Old Herreshoff America 18 Catboat – In Praise of Classic Plastic
  30. How Much Would Sea Level Fall If…?
  31. Exploring The “Caraquet” Shipwreck
  32. Help GREEN SEAS Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Nicaragua on Chinese Junk
  33. Rare Breed of Orca May Be New Species
  34. Great Lakes Tall Ships Challenge & the Battle of Put-in-Bay
  35. The Sorry Saga of the Ore/Oiler A Whale – From Miracle Skimmer to Bankruptcy & Abandoned Sailors
  36. July 4th on Whichever Coast – New York, San Diego & the Adirondacks
  37. Ted Hood – Sailor, Yacht Designer, Sailmaker Dies at 86
  38. The Boat Factory – A Complicated Love Story about a Shipyard: A Review

June 2013

  1. Last Voyage of the Schooner Nina
  2. King James Jesse Strang and the Mormon Pirates of Beaver Island
  3. Historic Schooner Nina and Crew of Seven Missing Off New Zealand
  4. Update: Mitsui OSK Reports MOL Comfort Stern Sinks
  5. Update: MOL Comfort – Towing Begins of Bow, Six Sister Ships Inspected
  6. Day of the Seafarer 2013 – Faces of the Sea
  7. Statement on Museum of City of New York’s Oversight of South Street Seaport Museum
  8. Horrible News for New York’s South Street Seaport Museum
  9. World’s Largest Solar-Powered Vessel in New York City
  10. Update: MOL Comfort – Salvage Tugs Arriving Today & the Crazy Conspiracy Theories
  11. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Arrives in Newport, RI
  12. Watch out for the Super Supermoon!
  13. Summer Camp Aboard the Schooner A. J. Meerwald – Openings Still Available
  14. Judas Island by Joan Druett – a Review
  15. Face of a 16th Century Archer From the Mary Rose
  16. Fifth Annual North River Historic Ship Festival at Pier 25 in Manhattan June 20 – 23
  17. Why and How Did the MOL Comfort Break in Half? Structural Flaw or Improper Loading?
  18. MOL Comfort – Bow & Stern Still Afloat After All
  19. Container ship MOL Comfort Breaks in Two off Yemen, Crew Rescued
  20. Monday Morning Wisdom from Douglas Adams
  21. New York Alligators – In the Peconic River, not the Sewers
  22. Congratulations to Francis Joyon for Setting New Singlehanded Transatlantic Record
  23. Yellow Duckmarine Sinks in Liverpool’s Albert Dock, Second Time in Three Months
  24. The Piri Reis Map – 500 Years Old, Still Fascinating and Controversial
  25. Father’s Day Sailing Trips
  26. Seal of Approval – Best Underwater Photos 2013
  27. Was the Carnival Triumph the Last Straw? Trust in Cruise Lines Plummets According to Poll
  28. Hong Kong Bids Rubber Duck Adieu as Pittsburgh Welcomes Inflated Yellow Avian
  29. Scientists Studying Climate Change Rescued from Melting Ice
  30. Student Teams Compete to Design Safe Affordable Ferry Design
  31. A PSA on IMO’s PSSA (Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas)
  32. WWF – Shipping Accident Hotspots in South China Sea, Mediterranean and North Sea
  33. The Future of Commercial Sail – What the Past and Present Suggest about a Likely Future For Sailing Ships
  34. Joan Druett Interviewed by Quarterdeck
  35. Michigan State Senate Officially Recognizes ITLPD but Not the International Day of the Seafarer
  36. “Spreading Joy Around the World,” aka “Rubber Duck” – Inflated, Deflated, Revived & Censored
  37. VolturnUS 1:8 – Floating Wind Tower Launched in Maine
  38. Fake Mermaids and Pathetic Pirate Ships – Dumbing Down Ocean Science and History
  39. Justin Beckerman, New Jersey Teen, and His One Man Submarine

May 2013

  1. Hurray, the Mermaid Parade is Saved!
  2. New Mary Rose Museum Opens to the Public in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
  3. Yikes – Globsters!
  4. RCCL Grandeur of the Seas, Newly Refurbished, Catches Fire in the Bahamas, No Serious Injuries
  5. New Advanced Spanish S-80 Submarine May Not Float
  6. From Steamship to Sewer Vent – The Mast of the Malta and the Queen of the South
  7. Large Underwater Structure in the Sea of Galilee Puzzles Archaeologists
  8. Don’t Be Shellfish – Save the Coney Island Mermaid Parade!
  9. Britain’s Atlanti? Scientists Mapping the Sunken Landscapes of One Atlantis or Another
  10. Musings on National Maritime Day – the Wisdom of Pogo
  11. Gray Whale Sighted in South Atlantic, First Ever Observed Below the Equator
  12. Joan Druett’s A Love of Adventure – Free Today & Tomorrow on Kindle
  13. Navy Dolphins Find Rare 19th Century Howell Torpedo off California Coast
  14. Fleet Week without the Fleet on the Historic Buoy Tender Lilac
  15. Beckoning Ice & Hell Around the Horn – Free Today and Tomorrow on Kindle
  16. Shaped on all Six Sides – A Look at Wooden Boatbuilding
  17. Celebrate MARY A WHALEN’s 75th Birthday!
  18. The Mysterious Disappearance of Richard Decker, and Yes, His Boat is for Sale at Auction
  19. Twice Forgotten: Story of the WWII Submarine R-12
  20. Free Books from Old Salt Press – Hell Around the Horn, The Beckoning Ice and A Love of Adventure
  21. Joan Druett Publishing with Old Salt Press
  22. Murder of a Tall Ship Sailor – Kyle Bruner, Chief Mate on Liberty Clipper, Gunned Down in Nassau, Bahamas
  23. Amorita’s Unlucky Day
  24. “Whisky Galore” Bottles fetch £12,050
  25. Mother’s Day on HMAS Toowoomba 2013
  26. Charles W. Morgan Restoration
  27. Is the AC72 the Boat That Could Sink the America’s Cup?
  28. The “Shutter Plank” Goes on the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Today at Mystic Seaport, CT
  29. British Olympian Dies in Artemis Racing AC72 Capsize Practicing for the America’s Cup
  30. South Street Seaport Museum’s Schooner Pioneer Sails Again
  31. Container/Ro-Ro Ship Jolly Nero Topples Genoa Port Tower, At Least 7 Dead
  32. Cannibalism on Land and Sea
  33. Voyage of the Mobro 4000 – Wandering Garbage Barge Helps Usher in the Era of Recycling
  34. Fly Fishing in NYC’s Central Park & the Hunt for the Snakehead “Monster” Fish
  35. Update: Chinese Vessel Did More Damage to Tubbataha Reef than USS Guardian
  36. Moby Dick on a Barge and the Card Game
  37. No, Ladies, Not Pirates of Penzance, These Were Real Pirates
  38. E/S Orcelle – Wallenius Wilhelmsen Concept Car Carrier Powered by Sun, Wind and Waves
  39. On May Day, a Look at Mayday

April 2013

  1. Re-Discovering the Lost Egyptian Port of Heracleion After 1,200 Years Under the Sea
  2. Are Humans the Descendents of the Aquatic Ape ? The Argument Continues on Both Sides of the Atlantic
  3. Saving the Lettie G Howard – South Street Seaport Museum Raises $250,000 to Restore Historic Schooner
  4. Istar, “Celebrity” Humpback Whale Killed by Likely Ship Strike
  5. Giant Head Found Floating in the Hudson River
  6. The Last Swift Boat
  7. Chinese and Japanese Ships Contest Disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea
  8. Congratulations to PortSide NewYork – Winner of the White House “Champions of Change” Award !
  9. Jersey Shore Offshore Roller Coast – Hurricane Sandy Icon – to Be Removed by Memorial Day
  10. Mississippi River – the Big Muddy Whips From Record Drought to Floods
  11. Magnus Olsson, Ocean Racing Legend, 1949 – 2013
  12. USS Guardian and the Writ of Kalikasan
  13. A Video for a Saturday Morning – Picton Castle Sailing Out the Anchor at Palmerston Island
  14. The Strange Voyage of Nakuru, the Giraffe
  15. The Texas City Disaster – the Explosions of the SS Grandcamp & the SS High Flyer
  16. Who are Jonathan & Mary? A Mystery from a 28 Year Old Letter in a Bottle
  17. A Swan Adrift – Abandoned Sailing Yachts Drifting on the Deep Blue Sea
  18. Chinese Boat Loaded with Illegal Cargo of Endangered Species Ran Aground on Protected Tubbataha Reef
  19. Updated: Carnival Agrees to Pay and Costa Gets a Slap on the Wrist
  20. Four Ballads of the USS Thresher
  21. A Moment of Zen for a Saturday Morning – the Spinning Seal
  22. New Study May Debunk Lead Poisoning Theory in Franklin Expedition
  23. The Future of Commercial Sail & the Nord Integrity – an Unexpected Sailor
  24. Navy Fleet Weeks Across the Country Victim of Federal Budget Cuts?
  25. World’s Most Beautiful Shipwreck – Canadian Schooner Sweepstakes
  26. Repost: Searching for the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion with the Titanic as Cover
  27. The Thresher Disaster – April 9, 1963
  28. A Satellite’s View of Ship Pollution
  29. The Drake on the Bark Europa
  30. Antarctica on Bark Europa
  31. The Vermont Sail Freight Project Building Sailing Barge to Carry Produce to NYC
  32. Update: Is Vancouver “Whale Bone Porn” All Fake?
  33. Carnival Triumph Adrift After Breaking Moorings in High Winds, One Man Missing
  34. Sailing on the Bark Europa – Antarctica and South Shetland
  35. Update: EPA Consent Decree Allows SS Badger to Keep Sailing and Dumping Coal Ash for Two More Years
  36. April Fool’s Pirates Mistake USS Nicholas for a Merchant Ship – No Joke

March 2013

  1. Sperm Whale Skeletons and Blue Whale Hearts – New Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
  2. The Squid Wars and Outlaw Fleets in the Argentine Waters Off the Falkland Ilsands
  3. Wind Farm vs the Blowhard – Donald Trumped in Scotland
  4. Vancouver Maritime Museum, Stephen Colbert & Whale Bone Porn
  5. Buying Time – Scrambling to Raise Half Million to Save SS United States from Scrap Yard
  6. Why the Emma Mærsk’s Engine Room Flooded – the Watertight Bulkhead that Wasn’t
  7. Challenged America – Disabled Sailors Competing in the Transpac
  8. Dancing Tug Boats
  9. Killer Dolphins Looking for Love, or Maybe Not – a Look at Military Marine Mammals
  10. USS Freedom Limping Toward Singapore – The US Navy’s Sorry LCS Saga Continues
  11. Apollo Saturn V Moon Rocket Engines Recovered from Ocean Deep by Amazon CEO
  12. USCG Barque Eagle Bound for Baltimore Overhaul?
  13. Lord Nelson Action Figure & Napoleon’s Horse
  14. Senator Rockefeller to Carnival’s Micky Arison – Will You Reimburse Taxpayers?
  15. MV Danio on the Rocks off Farne Islands, Salvage Delayed by Weather
  16. Container Ship Nose Jobs – Maersk Retrofits Bulbous Bows for Slow Steaming
  17. Eddie the Sea Otter’s Hoop Dreams
  18. Another Carnival Casualty – Carnival Legend’s Pod Problem
  19. Shipwreck’s “World’s Oldest Beer” to be Brewed Again in Finland
  20. Carnival Nightmare? Power Failure on Carnival Dream at Dockside Sends Passengers Home
  21. HMS Implacable, Survivor of Trafalgar & WWII – Scuttled in 1949
  22. MV Sustina, Alaska’s $78-million ‘Ferry to Nowhere’, Available for Free – Bound to LA?
  23. More Species of Shark & Rays May be Protected
  24. Sailing Ships at Work – Then and Now, Working Harbor Committee Presentation April 10th
  25. Red Tide Killing Record Number of Florida Manatees
  26. World’s Largest Message in a Bottle – Savvy Marketing or a Hazard to Navigation?
  27. One Dead & Five Rescued from Yacht ‘Uncontrollabe Urge’ in Race Accident off Southern California Coast
  28. Dolphins Call Each Other by Name
  29. Maiden Voyage of the Morgawr – Replica Bronze Age Boat Takes to the Water
  30. Calling All Sea Goddesses – Applications Now Being Accepted
  31. Sign of the Times — Sperm Whale Killed by Plastic Garbage
  32. Viking Sunstone Believed to be Found in Shipwreck
  33. USS Guardian Decommissioned in Japan While Salvage Delayed on Reef by Weather
  34. Sailing the Brig Niagara, Armchair Sailor No More
  35. Sailboat Thieves Also Lousy Navigators – 82′ Yacht Darlin Run Aground on California Beach
  36. For Fans of Nautical Fiction – Astrodene’s Nautical Fiction Log Book & Quarterdeck
  37. Body Found in Mysterious Debris Field in Atlantic Off St John’s River
  38. One Hundred Million Sharks Killed Each Year – and Why it Matters
  39. Brig Eye of the Wind Certified as Sail Training Vessel
  40. Attack Submarine HMS Ambush Joins Fleet on the Clyde
  41. BP Deepwater Horizon Civil Suit, TV Advertising, and A Third Year of Dead Whales and Dolphins
  42. Updates – USS Guardian Salvage Finally Underway, Shell 2013 Alaska Drilling Cancelled & Emma Mærsk in Repair Yard

February 2013

  1. Titanic II – Part 2: And About Those Life Boats ….
  2. Titanic II – Part 1 : Downton Abbey on the North Atlantic, Cruising as Performance Art
  3. US Court: Sea Shepherds are “the Very Embodiment of Piracy”
  4. Writing Nautical Fiction: Seymour Hamilton Interviews Alaric Bond
  5. Overhauling the Clipper Stad Amsterdam
  6. 16th Century Replicas – Basque Whaler Planned & San Salvador 60% Complete In San Diego
  7. Anti-Doping Testing for Ice Fisherman? Ice Fishing As An Olympic Sport?
  8. Drones & the Queen’s Ex-Plane Monitor Impact of Seaweed & Climate Change
  9. The Deep – Academy Awards, Survival and the Selkie
  10. Russian Ghost Cruise Ship MV Lyubov Orlova Spotted Off The Coast Of Ireland
  11. Coast Guard Winds Up Hearings on the Sinking of HMS Bounty
  12. Sailing the Roaring Fourties on the Swedish Ship Götheborg
  13. Trevor Grills of the Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends, Dies at 54
  14. ‘Super-Mega-Pod’ of Dolphins Spotted Off Coast of California
  15. Carnival Triumph Update: Coast Guard Says Fuel Line Leak Started Disabling Fire
  16. Time Lapse: A Frozen Tall Ship in 60 Seconds
  17. Jeanne Socrates Rounds Cape of Good Hope on Bid to Be Oldest Non-Stop Circumnavigator
  18. Diving for Meteor Fragments In Lake Chebarkul After Meteor Injures 1,200 in Urals
  19. Rosanne Cash Helps Raise Cash to Help Save the Schooner Lettie G. Howard
  20. Soldini’s Maserati Team Set to Break New York to San Francisco Record
  21. M/Y Eclipse, the World’s Largest Yacht, in New York Harbor
  22. Bounty Hearings Streaming Live
  23. Starbucks Returns to Sea on USS Boxer
  24. Carnival Triumph – Another Blacked-out Drifting Cruise Ship – Why Again?
  25. Update: Grim Conditions Aboard Carnival Triumph Under Tow to Mobile
  26. Congratulations to Matt Rutherford – Ocean Cruising Club Jester Medal Winner
  27. Engine Room Fire Strands Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico, Will be Towed to Mexico
  28. Deadly Lifeboat – Five Crew Dead and Three Injured in Falling Lifeboat on Thomson Majesty
  29. Happy Birthday Samuel Plimsoll, the Sailor’s Friend – a Man Who Truly Left His Mark on Shipping
  30. Last Chance to Get A Free Kindle Edition of Hell Around the Horn
  31. Fulfilling a Legacy – The Essex Shipbuilding Museum
  32. Final Block for Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth Leaves Portsmouth
  33. Solomon Islands Earthquake Triggers Tsunami
  34. Be Careful What You Fish For – Marlin Capsizes Fishing Boat
  35. Shackleton Epic Expedition Lands on South Georgia Island – An Ocean Crossed, A Mountain Yet to Climb
  36. Broken Keels in the Vendée Globe – Javier Sanso Capsizes, Keel-less Jean-Pierre Dick Takes Fourth Place
  37. Topsail Schooner Kathleen and May Leaving Liverpool for New Owners?
  38. Saving Robbins Reef Light – a Noble Effort
  39. Flyboard Zapata Racing – A New Sport?
  40. Drama in the Suez Canal – Engine Room Flooding on the Emma Mærsk
  41. TOTE Orders New LNG Powered Container Ships and Conversions – Largest LNG Powered Ships in the World
  42. Wandering Rock Star of Great White Sharks – Mary Lee Returns to the North-East
  43. Briton Finds “Whale Vomit” Worth £100,000
  44. World Largest Wind Farm Being Built Offshore at Fukushima
  45. PETITION: Challenge Japan to END Taiji Dolphin Hunt for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid

January 2013

  1. Update: USS Guardian – Will Be Broken Up But Why Was it Near the Reef in the First Place?
  2. Garrett McNamara Breaks World Record, Surfs Wave 100 Feet High
  3. Georg Büchner, ex-Charlesville, Last of the Belgian-Congo Liners, May Be Scrapped
  4. New Research – Civil War Submarine Hunley Possibly Sunk by its Own Explosive
  5. North Atlantic Storm Jolle More Intense than Superstorm Sandy
  6. Around the World in 78 Days! François Gabart Sets New Record Winning Vendée Globe
  7. What Big Eyes You Have, Mr. Giant Squid!
  8. Review of ‘Hell Around the Horn’ in the Navy Fiction Blog
  9. ‘I’d Go Faster if I Had a Keel’ – Dramatic Dash to the Finish in the Vendée Globe
  10. Update: Dolphin Dies in New York’s Gowanus Canal
  11. Brooklyn Lyceum Shanty Sing Cancelled Due to Frigid Weather
  12. Recreation of Shackleton’s Epic Lifeboat Voyage Gets Underway
  13. A Really, Really Bad Idea – The Hot Tub Boat
  14. Time Running Out for Salvaging USS Guardian? Monsoon Winds Expected to Worsen
  15. Happy Bounty Day! Barque Picton Castles Arrives at Pitcairn Island
  16. New Shanty Sing at the Brooklyn Lyceum
  17. The Tall Ship Elissa is Back! Hull Repairs Completed, Returning to Texas Seaport Museum
  18. Navy’s Scary Anti-Bath Salts PSA – How Serious is the Navy’s Designer Drug Problem?
  19. World War II Lard “Good Enough to Have a Fry Up With” Washes Ashore in Scotland
  20. Video for a Sunday Morning – Below Koh Tao 2012 – HD Underwater Video
  21. USS Guardian & Rainbow Warrior – Did Bad Charts Lead to Two Groundings on Tubbataha Reef ?
  22. Human Sushi – Interpretive Sushi Dances Sponsored by the Norwegian Seafood Council
  23. Update: QE2 – New Plan Announced for Conversion to Luxury Hotel in Asia
  24. Minesweeper USS Guardian Runs Aground on Reef in Philippines’ Tubbataha National Marine Park
  25. Disco Clam and its Strobe Light Show
  26. Celebrating Surviving Sandy – South Street Seaport Reopens with Two New Exhibits
  27. Norway to Launch First Electrically Powered Car Ferry
  28. Loaded Cannon from HMS Hussar Found In New York’s Central Park
  29. Carnival Blames Passengers for Costa Concordia Damages?
  30. Tug & Tow Collision & Rescue Near Hope’s Nose, off Torbay, Devon
  31. Are There Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written ?
  32. One Year Ago Today, the Sinking of the Costa Concordia – What Has Changed and What Hasn’t ?
  33. One Way to Win a Bass Fishing Tournament – Steal Your Own Bass
  34. Fishing Trawler:1, Nuclear Sub:0 – USS Jacksonville Loses Periscope in Persian Gulf
  35. Beyond Reality TV Farce, Addressing the Real Threats to Endangered Whales
  36. Update: New York Ferry Crash – A Focus on the New Propulsion System
  37. Giant Squid Filmed for First Time in the Deep Sea
  38. At Least 50 Injured as Seastreak Commuter Ferry Slams East River Dock in Lower Manhattan
  39. Classic Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 – Bound for the Scrapyard or the Thames?
  40. ‘Tsunami Bomb’ Tested Off New Zealand Coast During WWII
  41. Shell Drilling Rig Kulluk Refloated
  42. CBC’s Land & Sea – One Last Schooner
  43. Shell’s Alaska Drilling Rigs – Towlines, Taxes and Engine Failures
  44. Composite Clipper Ship City of Adelaide’s Rudder Arrives in Australia
  45. Review of “Hell Around the Horn” by Lars Walker at Brandywine Books
  46. Soldini’s Maserati Sails on New Year’s Eve in Quest to Break New York to San Francisco Record
  47. Shell Oil Drilling Rig Kulluk Aground on Sitkalidak Island – US Coast Guard Video
  48. Engine-less Merchant Sailing Ship Tres Hombres Rescues 70 Year Old German Sailor in Rudderless Sailboat
  49. Shell Drilling Rig, Kulluk, Loaded with Fuel, Aground on Sitkalidak Island in Gulf of Alaska
  50. Rescue Helicopter Crashes off Rio’s Copacabana Beach

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December 2012

  1. A New Year Welcomed by Steam Whistles in Brooklyn – Chief Engineer Conrad Milster and his Passion for Steam
  2. Fukushima – Radioactive Fish and US Sailors Exposed
  3. Last of the Flying P Liners Still Sailing, Russian Navy’s Kruzenshtern, Visiting 20 Ports in 11 Countries in 2013
  4. Warming in the Antarctic – Getting Hotter at the Bottom of the World
  5. Container Cliff: Port Strike on East and Gulf Coast Ports Averted, for Now
  6. Great Barrier Reef Sea Floor Collapsing, Could Cause Tsunami
  7. The Tradition of Naval Christmas Cards
  8. Saint Nicholas, Patron Saint of Sailors – “May St. Nicholas Hold the Tiller”
  9. Nine Flattops Home in Norfolk for Christmas
  10. Queen Elizabeth 2 Sold for Scrap – Dubai Hotel Plans Fall Apart
  11. Puntland Forces Free 22 Crew from MV Iceberg 1 – Held Hostage for 33 Months by Somali Pirates
  12. The Island of California – A History in Maps
  13. Trident Nuclear Sub HMS Vigilant “Stuck in the USA for Christmas”
  14. In a Million Pageviews, the Most Popular Post: Sailor’s Tattoos – Pigs, Chickens, Swallows, and Tattooed Backsides
  15. Stena Primorsk Runs Aground in Hudson River South of Albany, NY, but That is Not the Interesting Part of the Story
  16. One Million Pageview Giveaway – Hell Around the Horn Free Today on Kindle, Enter to Win the Paperback
  17. Remembering Dona Paz, Asia’s Titanic – 25 Years Ago Today
  18. Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Reopening December 21st
  19. Surfing Santa, Scuba Santas & Santa Fun Run at the Bottom of the World
  20. WWII Soviet Submarine S-6 Found in Baltic Sea
  21. One Million Pageview Giveaway – Free Copies of Hell Around the Horn
  22. Peru Lays Keel of La Union, to be the Largest Sail Training Ship in South America
  23. Old Salt Blog Milestone – More Than a Million Page Views ! Party Hats and Free Books!
  24. Costa Concordia Salvage on 60 Minutes
  25. Rhode Island’s Tall Ship Oliver Hazard Perry On Schedule For Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie
  26. Sally Fitzgibbons – Surfing in the Desert
  27. UN Court Orders ARA Libertad Released from Ghana
  28. (Potentially) Really Great News About the Tanker Mary A. Whalen
  29. Joan Druett’s The Beckoning Ice, A Wiki Coffin Mystery – A Review
  30. The Tainted Prize (Under Admiralty Orders – The Oliver Quintrell Series) by M.C. Muir : a Review
  31. Storm Surge Barriers for New York Harbor? Would They Do Enough?
  32. Update: John B. Caddell, Tanker Carried Ashore by Sandy on Staten Island, Hauled Back in the Water
  33. Update: SS Badger – Days May Be Numbered as Special Provision Removed from Funding Bill
  34. Australia Plans Huge Marine Reserve in Coral Sea – Praise and Conflict
  35. South Street Seaport Museum Reopening December 14th with New Exhibits
  36. CBC’s Land And Sea – Shipbuilding in the Maritimes
  37. Bulk Carrier Cape Apricot Takes Out Largest Berth at North America’s Largest Coal Exporter
  38. NOAA’s Arctic Report Card 2012
  39. The Strange New World of Single-handed Racing – Alex Thomson Vendée Globe Week 4 Highlights
  40. Unintended Consequences – HMAS Adelaide Scuttled & Cases of the Bends Hit Record Highs
  41. The Battle of Plattsburgh and Pearl Harbor
  42. Hono­lulu after Pearl Harbor: A Report Published for the First Time, 71 Years Later
  43. Maritime Shipbuilding on CBC’s Land & Sea
  44. Five Dead, Six Missing After Car Carrier Baltic Ace Sinks in Collision
  45. Car Carrier Baltic Ace Sinks After Collision with Container Ship Corvus J in Shipping Lanes Off Rotterdam
  46. Joan Druett Review: Hell Around the Horn by Rick Spilman
  47. Port Strike Ends & How Containerization Shaped the Modern World
  48. Tension Rising in the South China Sea – Chinese Threatens to Board Ships, India and Vietnam Respond
  49. The Hurricane Sandy Pollution Response Unified Command Tackles the John B. Caddell
  50. Will the South Street Seaport Sink Post-Sandy?
  51. HMS Bounty Tribute Wall Calendar 2013
  52. Wreck of HMS Bounty

November 2012

  1. Fireboat John J. Harvey – 2012 Fall Benefit, Sunday December 2, Pier 66 on the Hudson River
  2. Coal Ash, Earmarks and the SS Badger – National Treasure or Environmental Menace?
  3. Single-Handing Minus One – The Strange Voyage of the Bela Bartok
  4. Giant Mussels Rescued from Costa Concordia Salvage
  5. Photo of Iceberg That Sank the Titanic Up for Sale
  6. J-15 Fighter Jet Lands and Takes Off from China’s First Aircraft Carrier Liaoning
  7. Danger Adrift – Vincent Riou Retires From Vendee Globe After Collision with Drifting Buoy
  8. 65.45 Knots! 75.32 MPH ! 121.21 KPH – Vestas Sailrocket 2 Smashes World Speed Records – Including its Own
  9. Kite With the Wind – A Quest to Reclaim the World Speed Record
  10. Un-Discovering Sandy Island : the Well-Charted Pacific Island That Isn’t There
  11. On Thanksgiving – A Look at the Mayflower II
  12. Vendée Globe: Leaders Cross the Equator & ‘Gutek’ Retires due to Autopilot Failures
  13. More Woes for the HMS Astute: Rusty, Slow & Leaky
  14. Update: VESTAS Sailrocket 2 Shatters 500M Speed Sailing Record Averaging 59.38 Knots!
  15. More Vendée Globe Gear Problems – Jérémie Beyou Drops Out After Keel Failure
  16. BOUNTY Reminiscences by John Fitzhugh Millar
  17. PortSide NY, the Tanker Mary A. Whalen, Superstorm Sandy and Redhook
  18. Remembering HMS Bounty
  19. Schooner Bessie A. White – Hide & Seek Beneath the Sands of Fire Island
  20. Dismasting and Collision – Sam Davies & Louis Burton Drop Out of Vendée Globe
  21. Update 2: Explosion on Oil Rig in Gulf of Mexico – Eleven Injured, Four Critically and Two Missing
  22. White Humpback Whale Sighted Off Norway
  23. Moby Dick Marathon NYC November 16–18
  24. BP Pleads Guilty to 11 Felonies and Agrees to Pay $4.5 Billion to Settle Criminal Case on Deepwater Horizon Tragedy
  25. Superstorm Sandy, the Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, the Space Shuttle Enterprise and the Titanic II
  26. Shanty Sing at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor this Sunday, Nov 18th
  27. Superstorm Sandy Reveals Shipwrecks and Shuts Down the Statue of Liberty
  28. Great Downeast Windships – Photos by Fred Fred LeBlanc
  29. Kito de Pavant Hit by Fishing Boat, Retires from Vendée Globe
  30. Update: ARA Libertad – Standoff Intensifies as Sailors Brandish Weapons
  31. How to Sail a Full-Rigged Ship, Part 3
  32. Marc Guillemot on Safran Retires from Vendée Globe with Broken Keel After One Day’s Racing
  33. How to Sail a Full Rigged Ship, Part 2
  34. How to Sail a Full-Rigged Ship, Part 1
  35. Samantha Davies & the Vendée Globe Non-Stop Round-the-World Single-Handed Yacht Race
  36. Old Orchard Shoals Light Swept Away by Superstorm Sandy
  37. Seventy Years Ago Today – Torpedoman Phelps and the Last Ranger Over the Side on the USS Bernadou
  38. Mitik’s Wild Ride and a Brooklyn Aquarium Under Siege by the Sea
  39. The “Superstorm”, the Nor’easter and Monster Roll
  40. Charles W. Morgan Day at Mystic Seaport
  41. Spade-toothed Beaked Whale, the Rarest of All Whales, Beached in New Zealand
  42. HMS Bounty Survivors Interviewed on ABC’s Good Morning America
  43. Remembering HMS Bounty – National Geographic Footage from her Maiden Voyage in 1960
  44. Falling Overboard, Robin Beth Schaer’s Love Letter and Farewell for the Bounty and Her Captain
  45. USCG Rescuers of the Crew of the HMS Bounty
  46. New York/New Jersey & Super-storm Sandy – Disaster from the Sea & Relief from the Sea
  47. Farewell Nova Scotia – in Honor of the Barque Picton Castle
  48. Bon Voyage to the Barque Picton Castle – Bound for the South Pacific
  49. HMS Bounty Crew Relief Funds Set up by Bounty Organization and Lynx Educational Foundation
  50. New York’s South Street Seaport Museum – the Good and Really, Really Bad News
  51. Search for Captain Robin Walbridge, Washed off the Sinking HMS Bounty, Ends – Investigation into Sinking Begins
  52. Returning After Sandy – Destruction, Sadness and Recovery
  53. The World’s Only Nuclear Powered Container/LASH Vessel, Sevmorput, to be Scrapped

October 2012

  1. A Year After His Death, Steve Job’s Yacht, Venus, Delivered
  2. So Long Until the Lights Come Back On
  3. Video of US Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue of HMS Bounty Crew
  4. Freighter Amurskaya Carrying Gold Ore Missing in the Sea of Okhotsk
  5. Update: Missing Bounty Crew – Claudene Christian Dead & Captain Walbridge Still Missing
  6. CNN: Three Crew Swept Overboard from Sinking Bounty, Only One Made it to the Liferaft, Search Continues for the Missing
  7. Update: HMS Bounty Sinks, 14 Crew Rescued, 2 Unaccounted For
  8. HMS Bounty Foundering off North Carolina, 17 Member Crew Abandoning Ship
  9. HMS Bounty, Then and Now — Remembrance at the Scene of the Mutiny and Dodging a Hurricane
  10. Hawaiian Tsunami Warning Lifted after 100,000 Evacuated to Higher Ground
  11. “Superstorm” Sandy Sending Ships out to Sea and to Harbors of Refuge
  12. Update: Owners of Container Ship MV Rena Plead Guilty, Pay NZ$300K Fine
  13. Hurricane Sandy – the Perfect Frankenstorm Heading for US Northeast
  14. Schooner Lynx, “America’s Privateer” in New York’s North Cove
  15. Tug Benjamin Bailey Rolls on Piscataqua River, Two Escape
  16. Schooner Sultana – Downrigging Weekend before the Storm
  17. How Captain Longhair Saved the World
  18. The “Big E” Heading Home for the Last Time..
  19. Beluga Whale that Attempted to Mimic Human Speech
  20. Fireboat John J. Harvey – 2012 Fall Benefit, Sunday October 28th, Pier 66 on the Hudson River
  21. Salvaging the Costa Concordia
  22. Major Roy Bates – First Prince of Sealand
  23. Bon Voyage to the Jubille Sailing Trust’s Barque Lord Nelson on Her Round the World Voyage
  24. Schooner Lynx, “America’s Privateer” Arriving in NYC to Commemorate the Anniversary of the War of 1812
  25. Video for a Saturday Morning – Launch of HMS Bounty – Boothbay Harbor Shipyard
  26. Melville’s Moby Dick – Contemporary Reviews and Sales Figures
  27. Adrift in the Pacific – Coast Guard C130 Spots Fisherman Off Tarawa & Air Canada Flight Spots Yacht Off Australia
  28. Moby Dick – The Masterpiece that Ruined Herman Melville’s Career Honored By Google Doodle
  29. Class A Dominates Great Chesapeake Schooner Race – Woodwind Wins on Elapsed and Corrected Time
  30. Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Teaches Kids Unplanned Lesson in Water Depth by Running Aground
  31. NASA’s Perpetual Ocean
  32. Sailor Drowns After Being Knocked Overboard Following Great Chesapeake Schooner Race
  33. Kings Point’s Summerwind Wins Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race Followed by Pride II and Virginia
  34. Windjammer Peking – Disappointment in Hamburg
  35. Aegis Cruiser USS San Jacinto Collides with Nuclear Sub USS Montpelier in Atlantic off Florida
  36. Windjammer Peking Needs a New Home – South Street Deal with Hamburg Falls Through
  37. Hell Around the Horn – the History (and Fiction) Behind the Novel
  38. What is Italian for “Chutzpah”? Schettino Sues to Get His Job Back
  39. Derek Hutchinson – Legendary Sea Kayaker, Designer and Author
  40. Congratulations to Richard Bailey – Official Captain of SSV Oliver Hazard Perry
  41. Sea Songs in New York – Sailing to Staten Island: The Immigrant Experience, and Other Events
  42. 50′ Fin Whale Found Dead in Boston Harbor
  43. Schooner Silva Takes Unexpected Cruise in Halifax Harbor
  44. Sea Education Association Brigantine Robert C. Seamans on Pacific ‘Garbage Patch’ Cruise
  45. Update: Honk Kong Ferry Sinking – the Two Minute Tragedy : Why Did the Lammna IV Sink So Fast?
  46. Figureheads – Galveston’s Tall Ship Elissa, the Living Figurehead and the Yellow Rose
  47. Figureheads – Nannie Dee and the Cutty Sark
  48. Pamela Talese and the Open Studio Tour at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
  49. Harbor Week at Narratively|NYC
  50. US Hedge Fund Billionaire Seizes Argentine Navy Tall Ship Libertad in Ghana Over Debt Dispute
  51. Bombs in the Gulf’s Offshore Oilfields
  52. Cutty Sark – the Good, Bad & the Ugly
  53. Hong Kong Ferry Collision Kills at Least 36
  54. Knots on Mars! Hard to Improve on a Clove Hitch and a Reef Knot
  55. The Human Cost of Piracy: Crew of MV Iceburg 1 – 29 Months in Captivity, A Grim New Record

September 2012

  1. Schooner Bluenose II Launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
  2. Hemp and Pitch to the Rescue on HMS Victory
  3. The Bounty Bound for Galveston?
  4. Herman Melville Died One Hundred Twenty One Years Ago Today
  5. Lloyd’s List Awards “Seafarer of the Year” to the Crew of the Costa Concordia
  6. Nelson’s Cribbage Board – Jamming a Desk Drawer
  7. Historical Novel Society Conference 2012 and Hell Around the Horn Available in Print
  8. Chinese Aircraft Carrier, Liaoning, Strategic or Simply Status?
  9. Update: China’s First Aircraft Carrier, Liaoning, Enters into Service
  10. Navy Submarine Commander Michael P. Ward II Relieved of Duty After Faking Death to End Affair
  11. The Song of the Royal Clipper – the World’s Largest Square-Rigged Sailing Ship
  12. Lieutenant Commander Fred Sherwood DSC & Bar RCNVR – Canadian WWII Submarine Commander
  13. Bill King – Oldest Submarine Commander & Solo Circumnavigator Dies at 102
  14. The Earth’s Attic is on Fire & the Basement is Freezing Up
  15. Cambria, the Cutty Sark of Thames River Barges
  16. Windwagon Astrakan in the Black Rock Desert
  17. Susan Clark, First Female Portland Harbor Pilot, Dies at 48
  18. The Human Cost of Piracy or Thanks For Not Talking Like a Pirate
  19. Alaric Bond Reviews Hell Around the Horn
  20. 1877 Barque ELISSA Will Sail Again Soon
  21. Are Modern Ships Slower Than Sailing Ships? Probably not.
  22. The Shipbreakers of Alang
  23. Update: Costa Concordia – Report Says Captain Schettino to Blame, Crew and Company Also at Fault
  24. San Diego Maritime Ghost Conference on Windjammer Star of India and Steam Ferry Berkeley
  25. Sailor Twain or the Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel
  26. Cutty Sark Restoration: 2012 Carbuncle Cup Winner – Worst New Building Design in Britain
  27. World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle Bobs to the Surface
  28. Two Wounded in Mock Sea Battle at Toshiba Tall Ship Festival
  29. The Two Most Important Naval Victories of the War of 1812 – Part 2 : The Battle of Plattsburg – the “False Nile”
  30. The Two Most Important Naval Victories of the War of 1812 – Part 1: Battle of Lake Erie
  31. Shackleton Epic Expedition: Berths Available on Supporting Ship T/S Pelican
  32. Update: Venezuela Drops Arms Trafficking Charges Against Captain and Crew of MV Ocean Atlas
  33. Container Ship Amsterdam Bridge Catches Fire Off Mumbai
  34. Sailing For Adventure – A Silly Video for a Sunday Afternoon
  35. Sculptures Beneath the Sea : Part II – Sculpture to Help Save the Reefs of Cancun
  36. Sculptures Beneath the Sea: Part 1 – Art as Reef or Horseshoe Crab as Wreck
  37. Home is the Sailor … Naval Officer and Pioneering Astronaut Neil Armstrong to be Buried at Sea
  38. Venezuela Holds U.S. Flag Cargo Ship, M/V Ocean Atlas, Arrests Captain and Detains Crew
  39. Edmund ‘Ned’ Cabot, Boston Brahmin Scion and Avid Yachtsman, Drowns off Newfoundland
  40. Shipwrecks, Mysterious and Otherwise, Uncovered by Hurricane & Drought
  41. Sailboats in the Arctic – Belzebub II Completes Northwest Passage & Scorpius Breaks Free From the Ice
  42. 2012 Waterford Tugboat Roundup
  43. The Oyster – Environmental Hero in New York and a Criminal in New Jersey
  44. Greenheart Project Crowdfunding – Help Build the First Greenheart Ship
  45. The Patriot’s Fate by Alaric Bond – A Review
  46. Schooners on the Capes – Twenty-Eighth Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival & Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta
  47. 20th Annual Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition

August 2012

  1. Once in a Blue Moon
  2. Linda Collison’s Barbados Bound, a Review
  3. ‘Cajun Navy’ to the Rescue During Hurricane Isaac
  4. Maritime Museum of San Diego Festival of Sail 2012
  5. Ships of New York Harbor: Marine Art of Christina Sun and Frank Hanavan Closing Party Thursday, August 30
  6. Hurricane Isaac in the Gulf, Typhoon Bolaven Pounds Korea – 4 Chinese Fishermen Dead, 12 Missing
  7. Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Ready to Begin her Long Voyage Home to Australia
  8. America’s Cup Racing – the Reason that the Crews Wear Crash Helmets
  9. Alaric Bond on C.S. Forester – An Unlikely Sea Daddy
  10. J. Steven Dews’ ‘Battle of Trafalgar’ Expected to Fetch over £100,000 at Bonhams Auction
  11. Little Leon, 16′ Small-Tall Ship
  12. High Drama on the Sail to Dublin – Teens Battle 60 Knot Winds & Black Diamond of Durham Saves Singlehander
  13. Good, if Highly Confusing News, About the Galveston’s Tall Ship Elissa
  14. Pride of Baltimore II Visiting New York’s North Cove
  15. Hell Around the Horn, a Novel by Rick Spilman
  16. Update: Fires at Sea – MSC Flaminia Finally Allowed To Come Home & Chamarel Salvage Underway
  17. 10 Tons of French Wine to Copenhagen by Sail – Delivered to Noma “the World’s Best Restaurant”
  18. The Wreck of the SS Terra Nova Discovered – An Appreciation of a Remarkable Ship
  19. Update: Diana Nyad Ends Her Attempt to Swim Between Havanna & Key West
  20. Timbers from Jane Austen’s Brother’s Ship, HMS Namur, Found under Floorboards at Chatham Historic Dockyard
  21. Red Hook Maritime Art & Artifacts for Sale at PortSide NY Fundraiser, Thursday 8/23/12
  22. Diana Nyad Making Fourth Attempt at Cuba to Florida Swim
  23. Imperial Shag – Deep Diving Cormorant “Superbird”
  24. On Guerriere Day, USS Constitution Sails Again, Briefly
  25. Bulk Carrier Ocean Breeze Driven Ashore in San Antonio, Chile in High Winds and Seas
  26. Freeze-Dried Shipwreck – Preserving La Salle’s La Belle
  27. Wreck of W.R. GRACE Discovered off Cape Henlopen, DE
  28. Somali Pirate Negotiator, Mohammad Saaili Shibin, Given 12 Life Sentences
  29. Once Upon A Nuclear Ship – NS Savannah Documentary, the First But Not the Only Nuclear Merchant Ship
  30. Update: E-Ship 1 – Sailing Ship without Sails
  31. USS Porter Collides with VLCC M/V Otowasan Near Strait of Hormuz – the Disturbing Implications
  32. William Mariner, the Privateer Port-au-Prince & the Tongan Shipwreck
  33. 10,000 Square Mile Floating Island in the Pacific
  34. Legendary Cable Layer, Chamarel (ex CS Vercors), On Fire & Abandoned Off Namibia’s Skeleton Coast
  35. 2,000 Year Old Roman Shipwreck Found Near Genoa
  36. Update: MSC Flaminia Seeking Port of Refuge
  37. EPA and the Ports of New York and LA Work to Limit Air Pollution from Ships
  38. OMG ! Admiral Jacky Fischer was Ahead of His Time!
  39. Senate Keeps “Great Green Fleet” Alive, for Now
  40. Art by Christina Sun and Frank Hanavan on the Historic Buoy Tender Lilac
  41. A Video for Monday Morning – Duyfken July 2012
  42. Linda Collison’s Barbados Bound
  43. Happy 222nd Birthday US Coast Guard!
  44. Joan Druett’s “A Love of Adventure” – a Review
  45. Admiral Nelson Gets a New Hat
  46. Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York – the Fastest Growing Boating Competition that You May Never Have Heard Of
  47. In Honor of Melville’s Birthday – Whale’s Tail Pale Ale from Nantucket
  48. Today in History – Herman Melville, Sailor’s Snug Harbor & Nelson at Aboukir Bay
  49. Joan Druett’s Tupaia Wins 2012 New Zealand Post Book Award

July 2012

  1. Britain’s Oldest Shipping Company, Stephenson Clarke Shipping, in Liquidation
  2. British Navy Borrowing a Billionaire’s Octopus to Find A Battlecruiser’s Bell
  3. WWII U-550 Located 70 Miles South of Nantucket, Massachusetts
  4. 65th Annual Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland Starts August 1!
  5. Is a German WWII Submarine on the Bottom of Churchill River in Labrador?
  6. A Day in the Life of a Deckhand on the Schooner Mary Day
  7. Facing Up to Climate Change – A World Without Coral Reefs
  8. The AC72 Catamaran
  9. First the Titanic II & Now the Revival of Windjammer and Chalk ?
  10. Chesapeake Folk Festival at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum July 28th
  11. Deepwater Horizon, Two New Reports – BP & Transocean Failure at Spill Prevention & Dead Dolphins
  12. Update: MSC Flaminia Under Tow with Fire Under Control Approaches UK Coast
  13. Update: Shipyard Worker Charged with Arson in USS Miami Fire
  14. Mating Manatees Stop Traffic on Tampa Bay Causeway
  15. Tres Hombres Under Sail
  16. Interview with Captain Denise Meagher & Dawn Santamaria of Schooner Unicorn & Sisters Under Sail
  17. A Few Photos from Mystic Seaport Museum
  18. The Schooner Virginia is Back Sailing!
  19. Extinguishing the Fire on MSC Flaminia, Drifting in the North Atlantic, May Take Weeks
  20. Schooner Larinda Sails into Halifax 9 Years After Sinking
  21. Nautical Coincidence & Lifeboat Morality – Richard Parker and the Mignonette
  22. Another Zanzibar Ferry Sinks – 38 Dead, 100 Missing
  23. Update: Wreck of the SS Garisopa – Odyssey Marine Recovers 48 Tons of Silver From Three Miles Down
  24. Update: New Explosions on Container Ship MSC Flaminia Burning in the North Atlantic, Smit Tug Fairmont Expedition Arrives
  25. Privateer Royaliste, the Sternwheeler Portland and the Very Bad Friday the 13th
  26. Diplomacy Wins – Korea Reverses Decision to Resume Whaling
  27. Topsail Schooner Unicorn with All Female Crew First to Arrive for Halifax Tall Ships Festival 2012
  28. Serious Threat to Endangered Whales – Ship Strikes & Entangling Nets
  29. Falls of Clyde, Last Four-Masted Full-Rigged Iron Ship, Needs Volunteers & Funds
  30. The Unsinkable Hugh Williams – Truth Behind the Legend?
  31. Containership MSC Flaminia in Flames in the North Atlantic
  32. Stowaway Cat Survives Trip From Shangai to Los Angeles in Sealed Container
  33. City of Water & Fire – A Day in New York Harbor
  34. Update: Viking Longship Dragon Harald Fairhair Under Sail
  35. Baltic “UFO” a Top-Secret Nazi Anti-Submarine Weapon?
  36. Update: Saving the SS United States at $1 per Square Inch
  37. Update: USS Ponce, One of the Oldest Amphibious Transport Dock Ships, Forward Command Post and Commando Mothership After All
  38. The Rocket’s Red Glare, Bombs Bursting in Air – the Battle of Stonington, 1814
  39. The Return of Commercial Sail – UT Wind Challenger & Retracting Rigid Wing Sails
  40. Ernest Borgnine – from Gunners-Mate to Marty to McHale’s Navy and Sponge Bob Square Pants
  41. City of Water Day in New York Harbor!
  42. Great Windjammer Race – Rockland to Camden, Maine
  43. Update: Frigate L’Hermione Launched in Rochefort, France
  44. A Wealth of Overlapping Tall Ships and Harbor Festivals In New London, Newport, Providence and New Bedford
  45. Fourth of July Tragedy in Long Island Sound – Three Children Drown when Overloaded Boat Capsizes
  46. FLIP Turns 50 ! Navy’s Floating Instrument Platform One Half Century Old
  47. U.S Navy Sonar Training and Testing Could Kill 1,800 Whales & Dolphins and Deafen 15,900 More
  48. Happy 4th of July – A Toast to Madeira, the Wine of the Declaration of Independence and the Liberty Riots
  49. Dubai Unveils More Modest Plans for QE2 Hotel
  50. “Old Ironsides” – 1950’s Newsreel about USS Constitution
  51. Report: Black Box Not Functioning, Watertight Doors Open When Costa Concordia Hit the Rocks
  52. Towing Icebergs – An Older Idea Than You Might Think
  53. Of Stabilizers, Stability and Lawyers
  54. Breaking News: NOAA Claims that Mermaids Aren’t Real!
  55. The Return of Commercial Sail? Dyna-Rig Design in the News
  56. Colour on the Thames – 1935

June 2012

  1. Seafarers Awareness Week – In Distress at Sea, Seafarers to the Rescue
  2. Not Your Daddy’s Americas Cup: Day One Newport – Helmets, Fancy Graphics and Color Commentators
  3. Knock, Knock – the Media and the Mystery of the Missing Stowaways on the Ville D’Aquarius
  4. Seafarers Awareness Week – Seafarers UK Sea Cadets
  5. Sailing for Couch Potatoes – America’s Cup World Series Finale on NBC
  6. Are Foils the Future of Fast Sailing? Oracle’s AC45 Goes Flying & l’Hydroptère DCNS Readies for Pacific Challenge
  7. Update: PT-728, World War II Patrol Torpedo Boat, Bound for New Home in Port Clinton, Ohio
  8. Seafarers Awareness Week – Seafarers UK Fisherman’s Widow
  9. Second Refugee Boat Bound for Christmas Island Capsizes, Merchant Ships Rescue 136
  10. 21st Annual Wooden Boat Show at Mystic Seaport, June 29-July 1
  11. OpSail Boston 2012 – June 30th to July 5th : Celebrating the USS Constitution and the War of 1812 Bicentennial
  12. Update: 100 Year Old Battleship Texas Shutdown Indefinitely by Leaks
  13. Seafarers Awareness Week – June 25 to July 1
  14. Max Young, Circumnavigator Whose Boat was Sunk by a Whale, Returns Home After Rescue
  15. Day of the Seafarer 2012 – Seafarers Hold the World Together
  16. 30th Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade
  17. Update: MV Alaed, Re-flagged and Ready to Sail to Syria with Helicopter Gunships
  18. Sea Orbiter – A New Generation of Ocean Explorer
  19. Coastal Freighter Jireh, Aground on Mona Island Off Puerto Rico with Cargo of Undocumented Haitians
  20. Fourth Annual North River Historic Ship Festival June 28-July 1, Hudson River Park Pier 25
  21. Today in History – The Rescue of the Greeley Expedition, June 22, 1884
  22. Congratulations to Boatbuilder Harold Burnham of Essex – Awarded NEA National Heritage Fellowship
  23. Update: Tsunami Floating Dock an Instant Tourist Attraction on Oregon’s Agate Beach
  24. Asylum Seekers Boat Capsizes North of Australia’s Christmas Island – 200 Believed Aboard
  25. Coast Guard – Link Between Texas and New Jersey Hoax Distress Calls?
  26. New Hornblower Hybrid In New York Harbor – Powered by Diesel, Wind, Solar and Fuel Cells
  27. MV Alaed, Russian Ship Carrying Arms for Syria, Makes a U-Turn & Heads Back to Russia
  28. ‘Extraordinary’ 800 Year Old Shipwreck Found off Swedish Coast
  29. Dive on Baltic Sea “Millenium Falcon” Only Deepens Mystery
  30. Dardanelles Raider HMS E14 – British Submarine Found Intact After 94 Years
  31. Michele Puzzolante’s Solar Floating Resort
  32. The El Estero Fire – the Greatest Nautical Disaster that Didn’t Happen
  33. Update: MT Pavit – the Ship that Drifted Ashore, Up for Sale at Auction, Again
  34. US Sailing – Yacht Aegean Sank After Hitting North Coronado Island in Newport to Ensenada Race
  35. Struck by a Breaching Whale – Circumnavigator Max Young Rescued off Baja
  36. Marina 59 and the Far Rockaway “Boatel” Built from the Flotsam & Jetsam of Jamaica Bay
  37. Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival 2012 – A Music and Environmental Festival, 6/16 – 6/17
  38. The Blind Date Explosion Hoax – Tallying the Cost
  39. Battleship USS Texas – 100 Years Old and Taking on Water Fast
  40. Diving Dock Dogs and a Tall Ship at the Sailing Seaway Clayton Festival
  41. Coast Guard: Report of Explosion on Yacht Blind Date A Likely Hoax
  42. Mysterious Explosion – Yacht Blind Date Reported Sunk off New Jersey Coast, Possible Hoax
  43. Happy Kamehameha Day ! – King Kamehameha, Isaac Davis, John Young and the Fair American
  44. Baltimore’s “Star-Spangled Sailabration” Kicks Off War of 1812 Bicentennial Festivities
  45. Iowa Class Battleship News – USS Iowa Makes Final Journey, USS New Jersey Gets a Loan and USS Missouri Saves the World From Aliens
  46. Remembering and Possibly Rediscovering Cook’s HMS Endeavour
  47. British Solo Rowers Sarah Outen & Charlie Martell Rescued from Tropical Cyclone Marwar
  48. Explosive-Laden Liberty Ship SS Richard Montgomery May Sink Thames Estuary Airport
  49. Killer Whales Only Deadly in Captivity – New Ruling Protects Trainers, Who Protects the Orcas?
  50. OpSail 2012 Virginia – Parade of Sail
  51. Hermione, Freedom’s Frigate, is Afloat
  52. Tsunami Dock Washes up on the Oregon Coast
  53. Vacuum Cleaner Victims – the Clipper Ship Cutty Sark and Now the USS Miami !
  54. D-Day Landings at Normandy – 68 Years Ago Today
  55. How Big is Too Big? Protests on MSC Divina’s Arrival in Venice Lagoon
  56. Update: Space Shuttle Enterprise Moved to a Bigger Barge
  57. Space Shuttle Enterprise in New York – Damaged in Transit and Delayed by Weather
  58. Patrick O’Brien – Portrait of a Marine Artist
  59. Transit of Venus – A Final Transit for 105 Years
  60. Space Shuttle Enterprise Goes to Sea
  61. History’s Largest River Pageant for Britain’s Oldest Reigning Monarch
  62. What’s it Like to Sail in the Clipper Round the World Race? Interview with Skipper Gareth Glover
  63. Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant – a Map of the Festivities
  64. North Carolina Legislature Plays Xerxes, Considers Making Sea-Level Rise Illegal
  65. Seas of Peace – Israeli, Palestinian and American Teens Head to Sea
  66. Update: Removing the MV Miner from Nova Scotia’s Scatarie Island

May 2012

  1. Where Did Ancient Sailors Sail ? – Roman Shipwrecks Located in Deep Water off Corfu and Paxoi
  2. Own Your Own Secret Submarine Base – Norway’s Olavsvern Naval Base For Sale
  3. Banners in the Breeze – Clipper Round the World Fleet
  4. Clipper Round the World Fleet Arrives in New York Harbor, Unofficially
  5. On Board the Pelican of London, a Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant Tall Ship
  6. Fukushima Radiation Found in Tuna Off California Coast
  7. For the Love of Sea Music – Mystic Seaport’s 33rd Annual Sea Music Festival
  8. The Pearl No. 7 and the Bridge Too Low
  9. The Unfortunate Economics of Tall Ships
  10. Whales Give Dolphins a Lift
  11. Update: MV Rena – Cover-up Revealed and Jail Time for Captain and Second Officer
  12. Weird Beachcombing News – Beach Rocks Set Woman’s Shorts On Fire
  13. The “Gresham Ship’’ – Elizabethan Shipwreck on the Move
  14. The Navy’s MMOWGLI (Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet)
  15. Maersk Texas Attacked by Pirates, Probably – Pirates Driven off by Somebody
  16. Greenport Tall Ships Challenge 2012 – Memorial Day Weekend
  17. Fire on Nuclear Submarine USS Miami in Maine Shipyard
  18. OpSail New York – Parade of Sail
  19. The Legendary Ensign Chuck Hord, Born in 1959, Lost at Sea in 1908
  20. OpSail Fleet in New York’s Outer Harbor
  21. Opsail & Fleet Week in Brooklyn – the Portside Guides
  22. Opsail & Fleet Week Arrive in New York
  23. Diplomatic Row Over Shooting of Indian Fishermen by Italian Armed Guards
  24. Four Tons on Marijuana Worth $4 Million Found Floating Off Dana Point, California
  25. The Seven Deadly Seas and Dead Upon a Wind – Pirate Burlesque Returns to New York on the Barquentine Gazela
  26. Was Shakespeare a Sailor?
  27. Video of Proposed Costa Concordia Salvage
  28. Viking Longship Dragon Harold Fairhair Rolls Closer to Launching
  29. AMVER Rescue of Finnish Sailors on Sailboat Kamu by the Stolt Invention
  30. Bulk Carrier ID Integrity Adrift Off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – Passes Over Shark Reef
  31. The Little Ships of England – 1943
  32. Titan-Micoperi Presents Plan to Raise Costa Concordia
  33. OpSail and Fleet Week in New York Harbor – Two Parades of Ships on May 23rd
  34. Collisions at Sea and Allisions in Port – Navy Ships Collide in the Pacifc & Stena Ferry Wrecks a Container Terminal
  35. Pirates Days on the Embarcadero in San Diego
  36. New Directions in the War on Piracy – EU Airstrike in Somalia and a Private Navy in the Gulf of Aden
  37. Update: Supermoon & the Blame Game
  38. Barque Picton Castle Arrives in New York Harbor
  39. Republican Convention Security to Train on the SS American Victory in Tampa
  40. Remembering Robert Smalls – Slave, Captain of the Planter, First Black Captain in the US Navy & Congressman
  41. Holey Hull Plates! Newly Delivered USCGC Stratton Docking for Repairs
  42. Stepping the Masts on the Boston Tea Party Ship Beaver
  43. Update: $17 Million Settlement in Duck Boat Tragedy Lawsuit
  44. South China Sea – Is the Cold War Between China and its Neighbors Heating Up?
  45. The Irony of the SS John Harvey – Deadly Mustard Gas and Lifesaving Chemotherapy
  46. Nominate An Unsung Hero in the Sailing Community for Old Pulteney Maritime Heroes Award
  47. Claude Holloway – WWII Motor Torpedo Boat Commander, Hero of Bari Harbor Disaster
  48. Dubai Tries Again to Build an Underwater Hotel
  49. Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Sailing Team Poised to Sail from New York Tonight in Attempt to Break Record
  50. Archaeologists Claim Odyssey Marine “Plundering” HMS Victory
  51. Dolphins and Birds Dying on the Coast of Peru – No Clear Answer Why
  52. Yachting Magazine’s Crash Test Boat – Rigging a Jury Rig
  53. The Panama Canal, the Savannah River and the Confederate Ironclad CSS Georgia
  54. Solar-Powered MS Turanor PlanetSolar Completes Circumnavigation in 584 Days
  55. 70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea
  56. The Sea Shadow & Hughes Mining Barge – “Invisible Ship” and Spy Barge Sold at Auction
  57. Tall Ship Pelican For Sale
  58. Video of Duckboat Being Run Down by Barge Released
  59. Beware the Supermoon! Wonder What They Will Blame on it This Time?
  60. Update: Assam Ferry Tragedy – No Clear Death Toll Yet
  61. 2012 Savannah Tall Ships Challenge May 3-7th
  62. Update: Newport-to-Ensenada Racing Tragedy – Did the Aegean Hit the Rocks?
  63. Groundbreaking for David Warther Carvings – A Master Ship Carver In Amish Ohio
  64. A Proposal on HMS Bounty

April 2012

  1. Double-Decker Ferry Sinks in Brahmaputra River in North-East India – 200 Dead or Missing
  2. Titanic II ? Unsinkable? Australian Billionaire Clive Palmer Has Big Plans
  3. 3 Dead & 1 Missing in Suspected Collision Between Yacht Aegean and Larger Vessel
  4. Blogging in the Graveyard at Trinity Church – Looking for Lawrence, Talbot & Fulton
  5. Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives in New York
  6. Someone Must be on Drugs – Ship Owner Sues Pharmacy in 2007 SF Bay Spill
  7. Updated: Search Suspended For Missing Tug Boat Captain
  8. Bombs in the Baltic – Two Hurt by WWII Phosphorus on German Shoreline
  9. Busy Day for the Queen – Naming Gloriana & Reopening Cutty Sark
  10. Update: The Junk Free China on Her Way Back to Taiwan
  11. Boothbay’s 39th Fisherman’s Festival 2012!
  12. Today in History – The Second Burial of John Paul Jones
  13. First All White Adult Orca Whale
  14. Are Floating Wind Turbines the Future of Green Energy? Americans and British Partner to Develop Technology
  15. Mr. Muntz’s Marvelous Metal and the Cutty Sark
  16. Is the Restored Cutty Sark a Clucking, Grade A Turkey?
  17. Did the Swan Kill the Kayaker? Or was it the Lack of a Life Jacket?
  18. No City for Old Tankers – Mary A. Whalen in the New York Times
  19. Cunard Employee Admits to Molesting Children on Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth & Queen Victoria
  20. Costa Concordia Update: Titan Salvage Awarded Contract, More Bodies Identified, Tourism Suffers
  21. The Return of the Cutty Sark, Reopening April 26th
  22. Murder on Kodiac Island. Alaska
  23. Trireme Olympias Stricken from London Olympics – Fears of Popularity and Bridge Jumpers
  24. Update: Princess Cruises Regrets Not Rescuing Fisherman, Blames Breakdown in Communication
  25. Did Cruise Ship, Star Princess, Ignore Drifting Boat in Distress Leaving Fishermen to Die?
  26. Large Reward for Whistle-blowing Engineer on M/V Aquarosa
  27. Indonesian Barquentine Dewaruci and Equadorian Barque Guayas in OpSail 2012
  28. Congratulations to Matt Rutherford on his 309 Day Solo Circumnavigation of the Americas !
  29. Bolivia Posed to De-flag Iranian Controlled Ships
  30. Matt Rutherford Completing Circumnavigation of the Americas Within Hours
  31. Photographs of Human Remains and the Fight Over What Remains of the Titanic
  32. Arnold Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller, of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, Dies at 98
  33. OpSail 2012 Getting Underway in New Orleans, then Sailing for New York
  34. Titanics In Tennessee & Missouri, Pirates of the Caribbean, Napoleonland & the Commercialization of History
  35. Joseph Conrad on the Titanic – On Experts, Icebergs, Lifeboats and Biscuit Tins
  36. Sailors Missing, One Dead in Full Crew Farallones Race off San Fransciso
  37. Myths of the Titanic – Did White Star Line Claim the Ship was Unsinkable?
  38. J.P. Morgan, RMS Titanic and SS United States
  39. Pouring the Ballast on the Boston Tea Party Ship Beaver
  40. Last Titanic Menu Fetches £76,000, Meal Not Included
  41. Standoff in the South China Sea – Philippine and Chinese Ships Face-off at Scarborough Shoal
  42. Letters from the Titanic – Note Returning to Belfast & Accusation of Drinking by Captain Smith
  43. You Mean the Titanic was Real and Not Just a Movie?
  44. Building the Titanic – There’s an App for That !
  45. The Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch – How Big Really?
  46. 100 Years Ago Today Titanic Set Sail from Southampton
  47. Drunken Naked Students Run Amok on P&O Cross-Channel Ferry Spirit of France
  48. The Kosher Deli Born of a Shipwreck – J.A.Hyman (Titanics) Ltd of Manchester
  49. Georgian-Era British Sailors Lived on Ample Meat and Beer, Study Shows
  50. Indonesia Rescues 129 Afghan Refuguees from Leaking Ship
  51. Arthur John Priest & Violet Jessop, Titanic’s Unsinkable Survivors
  52. Saving the Titanic – A Documentary View from the Floor Plates
  53. Update: Capsize of the Katherine G off Liberty Island in New York Harbor
  54. Update: MV Rena – Owners Charged, Officers Plead Guilty, Stern Sinks
  55. Analysis: Shippers Make U.S. the Port of Call for Bankruptcy
  56. Three Rescued As Tug Capsizes off Liberty Island, New York Harbor
  57. Coast Guard Cutter Anacapa Sinks the Ryou-Un Maru, Tsunami Ghost Ship
  58. Littoral Combat Ship Program Plowing Ahead Regardless
  59. Update: McMurdo Radiation Leaks – Peabody Award & Navy Confirms Veteran’s Exposure
  60. Bob Ballard Discusses Titanic on the Colbert Report
  61. Reliving the Titanic’s Last Days in Real Time on Twitter or iPad App
  62. America’s Privateer, Lynx and the War of 1812 — More than a Coffee Table Book, a Review by Linda Collison
  63. Ship Aground Off Llanddulas, Near Colwyn Bay, Wales – Seven Crew Rescued
  64. Happy 50th Birthday Schooner Mary Day !
  65. Alexander von Humboldt Moving to the Bahamas
  66. Update: Two Clipper Round the World Sailors Rescued by US Coast Guard Cutter
  67. Norwegian Jarle Andhøy Arrested by Chilean Navy
  68. Two Gray Whales Caught in Nets in One Week off Southern California
  69. Update: Azamara Quest – Passengers Praise Captain and Crew of Stricken Cruise Ship
  70. PT 728, World War II Patrol Torpedo Boat, for Sale in Hammacher Schlemmer Catalog
  71. USCG Cutter Attempts Rescue of Sailors Injured in Clipper Round the World Race 400 Miles off San Francisco

March 2012

  1. Update: MS Carnival Triumph Allowed to Sail from Galveston, TX in Costa Concordia Lawsuit
  2. Fire on the MV Azamara Quest Only the Latest Failure on Modern Diesel Electric Cruise Ships
  3. Updated: Fire on Cruise Ship MV Azamara Quest, Five Crew Injured
  4. Tall Ships: The Privateer Lynx – Documentary On-line for a Limited Time
  5. Honoring the Bicentenial of the War of 1812 with the Captain and Crew of Lynx “America’s Privateer”
  6. Soren Larsen’s South Pacific Challenge
  7. Captain Robert Falcon Scott – Heroic Leader or Tragic Bungler?
  8. Major Gas Leak at Total Elgin Platform in the North Sea – Why it Matters
  9. Historic Tanker Mary A. Whalen Desperately Needs a Home
  10. Yacht Tabasco 2 Disabled off Nova Scotia – 1 Dead, 2 Injured & 3 Missing
  11. What to See at the Bottom of the Sea – the Barren, Desolate Lunar Plain of the Challenger Deep
  12. Restoring the Felicity Ann and the Memory of Ann Davison
  13. James Cameron Returns From the Challenger Deep – “Heck of a Ride”
  14. James Cameron Begins Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench Dive
  15. The Costa Concordia’s “Black Box” – A Look at Voyage Data Recorders
  16. Recreating Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Epic Lifeboat Voyage
  17. Japanese Fishing Trawler, Carried Away by Tsunami, Found Drifting Toward British Columbia
  18. Re-Living History on the SS American Victory
  19. Five More Bodies Found in the Wreckage of the Costa Concordia
  20. The Two Frigates Hermione – Part 2 : l’ Hermione, 1780 – Freedom’s Frigate
  21. The Two Frigates Hermione – Part 1: HMS Hermione, 1797 – Brutality, Murder and Mutiny
  22. Vanishing Sail – A Documentary about West Indian Commercial Sail
  23. Record Year for Ship Scrapping & ex-Exxon Valdez Heading for Scrap Yard
  24. Winnie Breegle, WWII WAVE and Code Talker Speaks of Her Service
  25. CBC’s Land and Sea – Pirates and Privateers, Now Online
  26. Cruise Ship Silver Shadow Collides with Container Ship in Fog off Vietnam
  27. James Cameron’s Vertical Torpedo to Dive to the Challenger Deep
  28. Captain Alan Villiers’ Photographs of the Last of the Tall Ships
  29. The Mystery of the Osberg Viking Ship – Seaworthy or Only Decorative ?
  30. Coelacanth Sunday – Long Lived, More Living than Fossil
  31. MSC Fabiola, Largest Containership Ever in a US Port, Calls at Long Beach
  32. Evacuation Near Port of Marseille to Remove 1-ton World War II German Bomb
  33. Damn the Right Whales, Full Speed Ahead? Judge Hears Case on Navy & Right Whales
  34. Remembering the SV Concordia
  35. Berserker Jarle Andhøy in Trouble Again
  36. “Pirates Like To Tweet” – Tracking Somali Pirates on Social Media
  37. Not Just Kiribati – Rising Sea Levels a Threat to Coastal U.S.
  38. Costa Concordia Updates – Ship’s Bell Missing, Salvage Estimate More than 100 Million Euros
  39. New Battle for the Battleship New Jersey
  40. Barque Picton Castle Goes Into Drydock
  41. Happy Pi Day and Mercator at 500
  42. At Least 114 Dead After Ferry MV-Shariatpur-1 Capsizes in Bangladesh
  43. Voices of the Sea: The Poetry and Song of Maine’s Fishermen and Those Who Work on the Water
  44. A Rebuilt Hōkūle‘a for the Next Generation of Pacific Voyagers
  45. Pacific Nation of Kiribati Considers Relocating to Fiji to Avoid Rising Ocean
  46. USS Enterprise, the Largest, the Oldest and the First Nuclear Carrier Begins Last Mission
  47. One Year After the Tsunami – No.18 Kyotoku-maru, Remains As Tsunami Monument or Scar
  48. Jack Chippendale, Master Boatbuilder
  49. Busy Saturday at Sea – Container Ship Aground Off Norway & Tanker Aground off Sicily
  50. Cameron Diving to the Bottom of the Mariana Trench
  51. The Battle of the Ironclads – USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, 150 Years Ago Today
  52. Schooner Western Union Designated Florida State Flagship
  53. Pascal Vaudé Wins Bouvet Guyane Solo Atlantic Rowing Race 2012 in Record Time
  54. Dust Off Your Sextants as the Solar Storm Rages
  55. Omani Women Taking to the Sea
  56. Sarah Hebert, Suffering From Anemia, Suspends Atlantic Windsurf Crossing
  57. What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor ? Breathalyzers on Navy Ships & a Couple of Drunken Captains
  58. Matt Rutherford – Resupplied off Recife, Sailing North
  59. Titanic and the “Supermoon” – Did the Moon Sink the Titanic? The Answer is No.
  60. Faces of the USS Monitor – Using Forensic Reconstruction to Identify Unknown Civil War Sailors
  61. Why PortSide New York & the Tanker Mary A. Whalen Must be Saved
  62. Thieves Steal Lord Nelson’s Personal Items from Norwich Castle
  63. Decommissioned Staten Island Ferry Herbert H. Lehman Sinks in Hudson River
  64. Sarah Hebert – Sailing Across the Atlantic by Windsurfer?
  65. A Video for a Monday Morning – Another World
  66. The Really, Really Ancient Mariners – Solutreans, Neanderthals & Hobbits
  67. Costa Concordia Pre-Trial Hearings Begin – Has Anything Changed in Cruise Operations?
  68. No Aircraft Carrier for Post-Apocalypse Wyoming
  69. Pirates and Privateers, Documentary on CBCs “Land and Sea”
  70. Giving Away HMS Victory? A Smart Move? Not All Are Happy
  71. Ocean Acidification – Worst in 300 Million Years and the Consequences
  72. Costa Allegra Arrives Safely, but Can Costa Crociere Survive?
  73. George H. Moffett Jr. – Educator and Longtime Captain of the Mystic Seaport Schooner Brilliant
  74. Thursday Daydream : the Mayan – David Crosby’s Legendary Schooner

February 2012

  1. Galleon San Jose, the “Holy Grail of Ship Wrecks”
  2. Update – Costa Allegra: A Big Catch for the Fishing Vessel Trevignon
  3. Danish Warship Absalon Rescues 16 Hostages from Hijacked Ship, 2 Hostages Die in Attack
  4. Plunderers Plundering the Plunder – Peru Claims Share of Coin Treasure
  5. Costa Allegra Under Tow to Seychelles, Expected to Arrive Thursday
  6. Costa Allegra: Not A Sister Ship – the Unusual Transformation from Container Ship to Cruise Ship
  7. Cruise Ship Costa Allegra Adrift off Seychelles After Fire
  8. Peter Maddison Occupying Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Again
  9. Update – Slavery at Sea? Abuse of Indonesian Sailors on Chartered Fishing Vessels
  10. Update: Admiral Confirms Nuclear Submarine Ekaterinburg Fully Armed During Fire
  11. Rebuilding the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan – First Hull Plank
  12. Fisher Poets Gathering Underway This Weekend in Astoria
  13. Matt Rutherford Sailing Singlehanded Around the Americas – In Need of Resupply
  14. Return to the Mariana Trench – Teams Racing to Dive 6 NM Down
  15. Rum Running – Documentary Now Online at CBC’s “Land and Sea”
  16. The Ruth Montgomery Collection at the Penobscot Marine Museum
  17. Seabourn Odyssey Rescues Three Men Adrift in the World’s Largest Ocean
  18. Eight More Bodies Found on the Costa Concordia
  19. $500 Million Treasure of the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes Returning Soon to Spain
  20. ROV Video – Costa Concordia Perched Perilously on Rocks, Bow & Stern
  21. Inflatable Fishing Boat Survives Attack by Great White off South Africa
  22. Crisis at PortSide, Help Save the Tanker Mary A. Whalen
  23. Happy Presidents Day – George Washington’s Schooners
  24. Commercial Sail – Sail Assisted Fishing and Cargo Carrying Thames River Barge
  25. John Fairfax, Pioneer of Ocean Rowing, Dies at 74
  26. Schooner Ernestina Needs $1.4 Million in Repairs
  27. Oil on the Water – Barge Spill on the Mississippi, Progress on the Concordia and Chances Missed on the Rena
  28. French “Superyacht” Yogi Sinks in the Aegean Sea, Eight Rescued
  29. Canadian Submarine HMCS Corner Brook – Damage a “Fender Bender” or is Sub “Totalled”?
  30. Rum Running Documentary on CBC’s Land & Sea
  31. Italian Armed Guards Charged with Murder in Killing of Fisherman Mistaken for Pirates
  32. Pirates Kill Bulk Carrier Captain and Chief Engineer in Gulf of Guinea
  33. A Houseboat on a London Rooftop and Singapore’s Cruiseship on a Skyscraper
  34. Irene Sets Sail with Ale for France & Oil For Brazil
  35. Russian Scientists Drill Down to Antarctica’s Lake Vostok Searching for New Life.
  36. Ekaterinburg Submarine Fire -“On the Brink of the Biggest Catastrophe Since Chernobyl”
  37. How to Tie the Celtic Heart Knot (and Happy Valetine’s Day)
  38. Scrapping the Navy Oiler USS Savannah
  39. No Shortage of Heated Words as 30th Anniversary of Falklands War Nears, Eggs and Vegetables Run Short
  40. Costa Concordia – Salvage Going Too Slowly, or Too Quickly?
  41. Update: Odyssey Marine Loses Appeal to Supreme Court Justice
  42. From Drought to Extreme Cold – Europe’s Waterways Freezing Over
  43. Help Save the Schooner Lettie G. Howard
  44. New Navy Litoral Combat Ship to be Named for Gabrielle Giffords
  45. US Army Landing Craft, Great Bridge, Rescues 101 Adrift in the Pacific
  46. Neptune Grass – The Oldest Living Thing on Earth
  47. Container Ship Horizon Reliance Saves Three in Nighttime Rescue in the Pacific
  48. Video of the Lagarfljóts Worm, Great Icelandic Lake Monster – An Internet Sensation
  49. Spanish Win the Fight for the Mercedes – Judge Orders Odyssey to Return $500 Million in Coins
  50. More Than Five Somali Pirates Let Go for Every One Prosecuted
  51. Dutch Tall Ships Europa and Oosterschelde Sailing Old Trade Routes to Indonesia and Australia
  52. Hawaii Superferries, Marad, Title XI and the US Navy – Taxpayers Still Foot the Bill
  53. A Grim Week for Shipwrecks – Black Sea, the Dominican Republic, Papua New Guinea and Dongting Lake in China Claim
  54. SS Port Nicholson, the “Blue Baron” and the 70 Tons of Platinum – Déjà Vu ?
  55. Keel Walking on the Hugo Boss
  56. Container Ship MOL Summer Rescued 116 of 246 Survivors of Capsized Ferry
  57. Costa Concordia: Captain Schettino and the “Mystery Woman”
  58. British Passenger Seen Falling Overboard from Cruise Ship Allure of the Seas
  59. Arms & Drug Trafficking – Container Ships and Rust Buckets
  60. Update: MV Rabaul Queen – 246 Rescued, More than 110 Missing
  61. Mine-Detecting Dolphins and USS Ponce, Commando “Mothership” in Persian Gulf?
  62. Passenger Ferry, MV Rabaul Queen, Sinks Off Papua New Guinea
  63. Costa Concordia: Underwater Video of Divers’ Inspection
  64. Atlantic Odyssey Rowers Rescued After Boat, Sara G, Capsizes
  65. 145 Australian Water Skiers Try for World Record

January 2012

  1. Costa Concordia Update: Search for Missing in Flooded Ship Ends, Salvage Could Take a Year, Cost Could Reach a Billion
  2. SS Port Nicholson – Sunk Off Cape Cod in 1942, a $3 Billion Shipwreck?
  3. From Nantucket to Spain, the Incredible Voyage of the Fishing Boat Queen Bee
  4. Ocean Rowing Round-up, Part 2: Bouvet Guyane Solo Atlantic Rowing Race 2012
  5. Ocean Rowing Round-up, Part 1: Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge Setting Records
  6. Carnival’s Micki Arinson Faces the Heat, More or Less & American Express Costa Concordia Offer
  7. Nelson’s Sword Discovered in Wreck of HMS Victoria
  8. MV Delta Mariner in Wrong Channel in Bridge Collision, on a Long, Winding Voyage to the Gulf
  9. NYC’s East River Water Turbine Energy Licence Awarded to Verdant Power
  10. Costa Concordia Update – 17th Body Found, Fuel Pumping Delayed & Salvors Line Up to Bid
  11. Jarle Andhoy – Berserker on Another Illegal Trip to Antarctica
  12. “Rocket Ship,” MV Delta Mariner Takes Out Eggner Ferry Bridge
  13. Costa Concordia – The Legal Battle Begins, Lawsuits Filed, Settlement Offered
  14. Seafarers Held Hostage in Somalia – Invisible and Ignored
  15. USS Laffey, the Ship That Would Not Die, Returns to Patriot’s Point
  16. USCG Air Station Kodiac Rescues 11 from Two Fishing Boats
  17. Still a Work in Progress, the South Street Seaport Museum Reopens
  18. Update: Zanzibar Ferry Disaster – Captain and Crew Charged with Murder
  19. Update: Scrapping the TK Bremen on Kerminihy Beach
  20. A Whale’s Tale? Did Costa Cover Up Past Grounding on the Costa Fortuna?
  21. US Navy SEAL Commandos Rescue American and Danish Hostage in Raid on Somali Pirates
  22. Update: Costa Concordia – Fuel Removal Begins, Video of Staff Emerges & Body Count Rises
  23. Group Hopes to get Schooner Amistad Sailing Again
  24. Graves Of 18th Century Connecticut & Rhode Island Ship’s Captains Discovered In Suriname
  25. Happy Year of the Black Water Dragon!
  26. Costa Concordia – the Inchino, Costa Management & the Web
  27. Racing of the Dhows in Abu Dhabi & the Volvo Ocean Racers
  28. “Noah”, Japan’s Mini-Arks
  29. Costa Concordia Update: Death Toll Rises, Sanctuary Threatened, Salvage Options Considered
  30. Setting Square Sails on the Star of India
  31. Nome Fuel Unloaded, USCG Healy and Russian Tanker Renda Must Now Get Out
  32. Laura Dekker Completes Solo Circumnavigation – A Most Singular Young Sailor
  33. Costa Concordia – Wreckage on Le Scole Rock
  34. Floating Gold by Margaret Muir – a Review
  35. Costa Concordia – One Week Later, What Do We Know? Not Very Much!
  36. Gianni Scerni, President of RINA, Resigns – Was Critical of Costa Management in Newspaper Interview
  37. Odd Notes on the Costa Concordia – Singers, Violinists and Theme Music from the Titanic
  38. The Shipbuilders of Essex
  39. Three Italian Captains – the Costa Concordia and the Andrea Doria
  40. San Diego Big Bay Whale Days and Whale Festival
  41. The Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Ready by March for Transport to Australia
  42. Lloyd’s List Intelligence Plots of Costa Concordia’s Previous Close Call
  43. Not the First Time – Costa Concordia Took the Same Route Near Giglo in the Past
  44. Coverage of the Costa Concordia Tragedy – Unfortunate Juxtapositions
  45. HMB Endeavour Transit of Venus 2012
  46. Update: Costa Concordia – Body Count Rises to 11, 24 Still Missing, Shocking Recording of Coast Guard Ordering Captain Back to Ship
  47. The First Circumnavigation of Canada’s Ellesmere Island – Important Arctic Life Lessons
  48. The Costa Concordia’s Fatal Salute – “Inexplicable Error” or “Nice Tradition”?
  49. A New Brigantine for San Francisco?
  50. Update: Costa Concordia – Why Did the Ship Roll and is She Slipping into Deeper Water?
  51. Korean Tanker Doola No. 3 Explodes, 5 dead, 6 missing
  52. USCG Icebreaking Cutter Healy – A Fleet of One
  53. Update: Costa Concordia – Three More Bodies Found, Death Toll Rises to Six (Updated 1/16/12)
  54. Costa Concordia – Steering towards Disaster, What Happened?
  55. Update: Costa Concordia – Three Survivors Found Aboard, Missing Down to 17, Captain Detained
  56. Thousands Evacuated as Cruise Ship Costa Concordia Strikes Reef Off Italy – At Least Three Dead
  57. Civil War Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley Unveiled
  58. Update: Waiting for the Dawn – Tanker Renda and USCG Icebreaker Healy Six Miles From Nome
  59. Laura Dekker, Mark Twain, the Internet and the Media
  60. Update: Tracking the USCG Icebreaker Healy
  61. The Treacherous Antarctic Fisheries – Sinking, Flooding and Fire
  62. Update: Tanker Renda and USCG Icebreaker Healy Making Slow Progress to Nome
  63. The Return of the Bureaucrats – Laura Dekker Strikes the Dutch Flag
  64. Chilean Navy Rescues 84 Year Old Sailor on Seventh Attempt to Round Cape Horn
  65. USS Narcissus, Civil War Shipwreck off Egmont Key, May Become Florida’s 12th Underwater Preserve
  66. China to Open Luxury Hotel on Soviet Aircraft Carrier Kiev
  67. 50.48 Knots on a Windsurfer!
  68. Rescue Mission to Nome – Russian Tanker Renda & USCG Icebreaker Healy Battle Ice to Deliver Fuel
  69. Update: Container Ship Rena Breaks Up on New Zealand’s Astrolabe Reef
  70. Update: Cracking on the Vale Beijing – Offloading Bunkers and Transferring Cargo
  71. Jules Verne Trophy : Banque Populaire V – Closing on Finish Line and a New World Record at Almost Thirty Knots
  72. Shanty Sings All Over – Mystic, New York, San Francisco, Port Townsend & Washington DC
  73. Laura Dekker, Banque Populaire V, Jules Verne, the Internet & and Our Shrinking Globe
  74. The Lenox Project – Building a Restoration Warship
  75. The Diversity of the Sea – Hybrid Sharks and Newly Discovered Species at Deep Sea Vents
  76. Berths Available on TS Pelican from Liverpool to the West Indies Next September
  77. Update: ValeMax Ship Finally Makes it to China
  78. Tall Ship Elissa Fundraising On Track – Not So Endangered After All
  79. The Passengers are Fatter so US Coast Guard Revises their Regulations
  80. The Cyber-Reconstruction of the 17th Century, Nossa Senhora dos Martires, at Texas A&M

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