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December 2016

  1. New SeaChange Exhibit in Mystic Seaport’s New Thompson Exhibition Building
  2. Chinese Sail Training Ship Polang Under Construction
  3. Japanese Galleon San Juan Bautista of 1614 and Today
  4. Waves from “Fat Leonard” Bribery Scandal Continue to Rock Navy
  5. Mary E. Coming Home: Maine Maritime Museum to Acquire Historic Schooner
  6. Our Soggy Solar System II — Pluto, Ganymede, Enceladus, Europa & Mars,
  7. All the Surfing Santas You Will Ever Need
  8. Cape Sable Island Lobster Pot Christmas Tree — Sadness, Joy & Healing
  9. U.S. Navy Reverses Course– Nevermind, You Are Still a Boatswain’s Mate Third Class
  10. Repost: Saint Nicholas, Patron Saint of Sailors – “May St. Nicholas Hold the Tiller”
  11. An Icy Lighthouse on the First Day of Winter
  12. The Cluttered Ocean — UFOs and the Vendee Globe
  13. Deepwater Wind, First US Offshore Wind Farm Goes Live off Block Island
  14. The Wavy Navy, Stringbags and the Mighty Bismarck
  15. A Bit of Perspective: Slocum Glider, a Small Research Drone, not a “Naval Vessel”
  16. Chinese Navy Seizes a USNS Bowditch Drone Glider
  17. Record Waves in the North Atlantic
  18. Royal Navy Pilot Jock Moffat, Torpedo Crippled the Bismarck, Dies at 97
  19. A Close to Unsinkable Titanic in China’s Sichuan Province
  20. A Video for a Monday — Epic Ship’s Horn Fail on the Oriana
  21. Off Arromanches, a Drone over the Mulberry
  22. The Water Worlds of Kepler-62
  23. Pristine Wrecks in Great Lakes, Baltic & Black Sea While Bacteria Devours the Titanic
  24. The Fateful Collision of USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma, October 22, 1941
  25. On the 75th Anniversary: Pearl Harbor Attack Radio Emergency Broadcast
  26. Pearl Harbor 75th : Remembering Dorie Miller, Messman with a 50 Caliber
  27. Captain Radhika Menon, India’s First Female Merchant Captain Wins Bravery Award
  28. LCS — the Program that Broke the Navy
  29. Statsraad Lehmkuhl — Norway’s Oldest, Largest, and Very Fast Sailing Ship
  30. Vendee Globe — Hugo Boss & Banque Populaire VIII Shot from French Navy Helicopter
  31. Princess Cruises Hit by Record Fine for ‘Deliberate Pollution & Cover-up’
  32. Start to the Finishline — Schooner Virginia

November 2016

  1. Update: Fighting Fishing Piracy with Satellites and in Ports
  2. HMHS Britannic, Only Slightly Luckier Sister of the Titanic
  3. Historic Ferryboat Binghamton to be Broken Up
  4. Tall Ship Lynx — Sailing from St. Petersburg & Nantucket
  5. A Video for a Saturday : Magnificent Three Masted Top Sail Schooner Oosterschelde
  6. Mayflower II Arrives in New York in 1957
  7. Hauling the Mayflower II at Mystic Seaport
  8. USS Zumwalt Breaks Down in Panama Canal
  9. Douglas Reeman (Alexander Kent) Needs Our Help
  10. Menhaden & Humpbacks — Small Fish & Large Whales
  11. Mystery of the Vanished Dutch WWII Shipwrecks
  12. Oldest Operating Steamship & Boats, Redux
  13. Humpback Whale In New York’s Inner Harbor
  14. Return of the Humpback Whales — the Case for Cautious Optimism
  15. Which is the Oldest Operating Steamship?
  16. Saga of ex-Presidential Yacht Sequoia Continues with New Owner
  17. The Supermoon and King Tide — Big Deal or Not?
  18. One-Day Ship Model Exhibit at National Lighthouse Museum
  19. Sailing Tall Ship Danmark
  20. Rediscovering USS Independence — From WWII to Bikini to the Depths off San Francisco
  21. Update: MV Liemba, Oldest Passenger Ferry Turns 102
  22. USS Zumwalt — Big Guns but Too Expensive to Fire
  23. Beautiful Sailors — Velella Velella
  24. Brass Nails May Help Solve Mystery of the Acre Tower Shipwreck
  25. And They’re Off — 29 Sailors Set Sail in Vendée Globe
  26. “Lost Nuke” Found off Haida Gwaii, Canada
  27. Review: Eric Jay Dolin’s Brilliant Beacons — A History of the American Lighthouse
  28. SeaBubbles — Foiling Electric Water Taxis to be Tested in Paris
  29. Explosion Kills 21 at Gadani, Pakistan Shipbreaking Yard
  30. Panama Canal & More Cracks in LCS USS Montgomery

October 2016

  1. Giant Pumpkin Paddling ! The Next Big Thing?
  2. Update: José Fernández Had Cocaine, Alcohol in System During Fatal Boat Crash
  3. Update: In Japan Vagina Kayaks Are Legal, Distributing Plans Are Not
  4. World’s Largest Marine Sanctuary Created in Antarctica’s Ross Sea
  5. Vasili Arkhipov, Soviet Submarine Commander Who May Have Saved the World
  6. Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting at “Alarming Rate”
  7. USCG Cutter Tamaroa, ex-USS Zuni, to be Reefed off NJ Coast
  8. Legacy of “Blackfish” — The Last Generation of Orcas at SeaWorld
  9. Duyfken Replica Commemorates Dirk Hartog’s Voyage 400 Years Ago
  10. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Seeking Crew
  11. Trafalgar Day Repost: Conrad on Nelson at Trafalgar
  12. Washburn, the Saga of the Wandering, Wayward & Pregnant Manatee
  13. German Sub UB-85 — Of Submarines and Sea Monsters
  14. Sailing Yacht A — One of the Biggest & Definitely the Ugliest
  15. USS Mason, Yemen, Missiles and the “Fog of War”
  16. Looking in the Eye of the Greenland Shark, Oldest Living Vertebrate
  17. Harvey Gamage in Cuban Waters
  18. Australia on the Move — Adjusting the Charts to Agree with GPS
  19. San Francisco Capsize Echoes Past Tragedy — Kandi Won & Khaleesi
  20. Clipper Ship City of Adelaide — A Short Documentary
  21. Delta King, the Delta Queen’s Shorebound Sister
  22. San Fran Capsize — 30 People in a 34′ Boat
  23. LCS USS Montgomery Woes Continue — Hull Crack, a Tug and a Hurricane
  24. Navy Amphibious Transport, Aircraft Carrier, & Hospital Ship in Relief Mission to Haiti
  25. Steamboat Delta Queen on the Endangered List
  26. Death on the Historic Ketch Amicitia Caused by Bad Mast Repair?
  27. 24th Annual North River Tugboat Race & Competition! Sunday, October 9th
  28. Saltwater Brewery “Edible Six Pack Rings” Saving Marine Life
  29. HMS Warrior — Saving the Last Wreck From Jutland
  30. A Glimmer of Hope for the Historic Falls of Clyde?
  31. Street Signs of the Times — Peking, Gone But Not Forgotten

September 2016

  1. Black Moon on the Rise
  2. Nathan Carman’s Strange & Tragic Voyage — Rescued After 8 Days at Sea
  3. Building Cieba: Sailcargo, Inc. Kickstarter Project
  4. Cruise Ships vs Gondolas — the Continuing Battle of Venice Lagoon
  5. Miami Marlins Pitcher Jose Fernandez Dies in Boating Accident
  6. Welcome Home Wavertree !
  7. St. Helena Islanders May Sue over New £285m Airport — Too Windy for Planes to Land
  8. More LCS Failures but CNO Says “Everything on Track”
  9. Seventeen Fathoms Deep: The Saga of the Submarine S-4 Disaster by Joseph A. Williams — a Review
  10. Dragon in the Big City — Draken Harald Hårfagre at North Cove
  11. Underway in the Engine Room on the Liberty Ship SS John W. Brown
  12. Why I’m Not a Pirate — A Sailor’s Perspective
  13. Mystic Seaport, Scavaging Ship’s Timbers From Hurricanes & Happenstance
  14. Draken Harald Hårfagre Arriving NYC North Cove
  15. First U.S. Atlantic Ocean Marine National Monument Established
  16. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry to Sail to Northwest Passage
  17. Cabrillo’s San Salvador & the Pacific Heritage Tour 2016
  18. HMS Terror from Franklin’s Doomed Expedition Found
  19. Hidden Harbor Tour, Brooklyn Waterfront –Past & Present
  20. Vikings in the Big City — Draken Harald Hårfagre in New York City Sept. 17-26
  21. Remembering the Great New York Boatlift on the 15th Anniversary of 9/11
  22. Drone Video — Gloucester Schooner Festival 2016 Parade of Sail
  23. HMS Tarpon, WWII Sub Sunk by Q-Ship Found Off Denmark
  24. Liberty Ship S.S. John Brown Steaming to New York
  25. Saying Goodbye to Peking — Windjammer Leaves South Street for the Last Time
  26. 150 Years Ago Today — The Last Great Tea Race Ends in a Tie
  27. Book Review: American Dunkirk, The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11
  28. Memories of Tug Races Past
  29. American Dunkirk — Discussion & Book Signing, Sept 8 on Historic Cutter Lilac
  30. The Titanic and Dihydrogen Monoxide
  31. 24th Annual Great North River Tugboat Race and Competition Postponed Due to Hermine
  32. Great White Shark Nursery Discovered Off Long Island

August 2016

  1. Ferry Collides with a Group of Kayakers on Hudson River
  2. Update: Replica Continental Sloop Providence to be Repaired
  3. Freedom Class LCS in Service — 100% Failure Rate in Last Year
  4. Norsepower & Enercon Sailing on Rotors — Future of Commercial Sail?
  5. Red Rock IV in 57 Knots of Wind in the Bristol Channel
  6. Obama Expands Papahānaumokuākea — Largest Marine Sanctuary with the Longest Name
  7. 26 Hours of Information Recovered from El Faro Voyage Data Recorder
  8. Latest US Attempt to Invade Canada Fails Again
  9. An Underwater Microscope Views Coral Up-Close
  10. U.K. Approves Hornsea Two, World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
  11. Windjammer Peking Returning to Hamburg from New York in the Spring
  12. Faroe Islands SheepView 360
  13. Crystal Serenity, RRS Ernest Shackleton & the Northwest Passage — What Could Go Wrong?
  14. Tall Ships Duluth 2016
  15. Fire on Passenger/RoRo Ferry Caribbean Fantasy Off Puerto Rico, 500 + Evacuated
  16. Manatee Orgy Stops Traffic in Florida, Again
  17. First US Offshore Wind Farm Off Block Island, an Island with a Long History of Wind Power
  18. Orca “Granny,” 105 Years Old, Still Swimming the Pacific
  19. Etched Into Art: Scrimshaw at Mystic Seaport
  20. Falls of Clyde Ordered to Leave Honolulu Harbor
  21. Wavertree — Stepping the Final Mast Before Returning to South Street Seaport
  22. Repost: The Battle of Stonington, CT 1814 — Rocket’s Red Glare, Bombs Bursting in Air
  23. Lifting Maud from the Mud — Amundsen’s Ship Floats Again
  24. Voyage Data Recorder from El Faro Recovered from 15,000′
  25. Submerged Sofa Strikes Again in Rio, Then Tweets About It
  26. Sailing Bark Europa from Gran Canaria to Antarctica
  27. Cruise Ships Silver Cloud and Norwegian Getaway at the Rio Olympics
  28. Draken Harald Hårfagre Ends Great Lakes Voyage at Green Bay
  29. Crystal Says No to SS United States — Not Feasible to Return to Service
  30. Dragon Hole in South China Sea, World’s Deepest Blue Hole
  31. Tall Ship Festival Green Bay 2016 — Nine Ships including the Draken Harald Hårfagre
  32. Whales Returning to New York — Dead & Alive
  33. LILAC: Flower of the Delaware — A Coast Guard Day Presentation, August 6th

July 2016

  1. The Viking Longship that Sailed to Chicago in 1893
  2. Black Tom — 100 Years Ago Today, the Night New York Harbor Exploded
  3. Andrea Doria Lifeboat Launching—60 Years Later
  4. ONAK Origami Canoe — Paddling for City Dwellers
  5. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Earns Certificate of Inspection — Summer Sails Set
  6. Viking Longship Draken Harald Hårfagre Sails on Confused Inland Seas
  7. Mary Rose Open for Public Viewing After 471 Years
  8. John W. Griffith’s Headstone Unveiled in Linden Hill Cemetery
  9. Octopi in the Sky — Giant Octopus and Squid Kites
  10. Explosion, Death and Bandits on the Peruvian Amazon
  11. Reefing the Ana Cecilia
  12. John Willis Griffiths — Father of the Clipper Ship
  13. Dead Rise Summer Ale & Olde Salt Oysters at Merroir
  14. Fourni Archepelago, an Underwater Graveyard of Ships in the Aegean
  15. Great News for Whales — Navy Sonar Rules Reined In
  16. Bringing History to Life: Interpreters at Mystic Seaport
  17. Bay City Tall Ship Celebration 2016
  18. North Korea’s Dangerous & Decrepit Submarine Fleet
  19. Beijing’s Claims to South China Sea Rejected By Hague Tribunal
  20. Update: Draken Harald Hårfagre Sails on to Tall Ships Celebration Bay City
  21. Draken Harald Hårfagre May Be Forced From Tall Ships Challenge by Fees
  22. Update: Lady Luck, ex-Newtown Creek, to be Scuttled off Pompano Beach
  23. Newfoundland’s Dildo Island, Captain Cook, and “The Twins”
  24. Sailing Windjammer Angelique
  25. Update: Oil, Sewage & “Super Bacteria” at Rio Olympics Venues
  26. A New Fantasy “Ark” Opens in Kentucky
  27. Captain Boomer & the Cachalot Plastique
  28. Pogo and the Latest Florida Algae Bloom
  29. The Star Spangled Banner & the Battle Of Fort McHenry
  30. The Sea Organ of Zadar
  31. Bluenose II Begins Sailing Season, Questions Continue
  32. The Summer of the Shark, Jersey Shore 1916 — the Birth of “Jaws”

June 2016

  1. Update: US Navy Disciplines 9 in Riverine Squadron After Iranian Incident
  2. 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Route — Longest & Toughest Yet
  3. Attempt to Save Entangled Blue Whale as West Coast Whale Entanglements Rise
  4. The “New” Panama Canal — Looking Forward and Looking Back
  5. A Song for a Sunday Morning — Tom Munch Sings We Build the Ships
  6. Day of the Seafarer 2016
  7. 12 Million Year Old Sperm Whale Fossils Found in California Landfill
  8. The Legacy of the Sailor Poet Gorch Foch, Killed in the Battle of Jutland
  9. Congratulations to the Schooner Spirit of South Carolina and All Who Sail Her!
  10. Freed From the Vultures, Argentine Tallship Libertad Sails Again
  11. A Closer Look at the America 2.0 — Replica, Hybrid or High-Tech Schooner?
  12. State of Hawaii Evicts Falls of Clyde
  13. The Mulberries Battle the Storm — June 19, 1944
  14. Guirec Soudee & Monique — a Sailor & His Chicken
  15. Last Oil Company Abandons Arctic Drilling
  16. Defending New York Harbor — Photography on Historic Cutter Lilac
  17. The Last Voyage of RMS St Helena & Oh, About That Airport…
  18. Remembering the General Slocum Disaster of June 15, 1904
  19. Return to the Gowanus Canal on the Gowanus Bay Hidden Harbor Tour
  20. The Swedish East Indiaman Götheborg for Sale
  21. Invasive Lionfish for Sale at Whole Foods – If You Can’t Beat ’em, Eat ’em
  22. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry: America’s Newest Tall Ship Looking for Deckhands
  23. Bom Jesus — More Gold From Shipwreck on a Beach of Diamonds
  24. UK Frigates & Russian Submarines — Increasing Challenges & Too Few Ships
  25. Happy World Oceans Day! A Day to Mourn, to Celebrate or Both?
  26. Headstone To Honor Legendary Naval Architect John W. Griffiths
  27. Hōkūleʻa in North Cove — Palm Trees and Stormy Skies
  28. The Death of Lord Kitchener & the Sinking of HMS Hampshire
  29. University of Strathclyde Wins First Place for Safe Affordable Ferry Design
  30. World Oceans Day on Historic Lighthouse Tender Lilac June 8
  31. Hōkūleʻa — the Big Canoe in the Big Apple
  32. Soul of the Sea: Immersive Dance at Historic Lighthouse Tender Lilac

May 2016

  1. On the 100th Anniversary — Jellicoe & the Battle of Jutland
  2. On Memorial Day — Remembering the US Merchant Mariners of WWII
  3. Welcome Back, Donna Lange: Solo Sailor Finishes Second Circumnavigation
  4. New Chatham “Command of the Oceans” Exhibit Features Timbers From HMS Namur
  5. World War II Combat Footage – Sinking of the Bismarck
  6. Fleet Week NYC Parade of Ships — View from the Deck of USS Bataan
  7. The Morning After Bermuda Day — Thoughts on Dark & Stormy Nights
  8. HMS Hood’s Bell Rings Again, 75 Years After Being Sunk by the Bismark
  9. New York Fleet Week May 25 – 31, 2016
  10. Brooklyn Waterfront Past & Present
  11. A Virtual Visit to the Republic of Null Island — “Like No Place on Earth”
  12. Journey to Restoration: Mayflower II at Mystic Seaport DuPont Shipyard
  13. Safran IMOCA 60 with the Dali Moustache — Foil User Manual
  14. The Engineering to Re-Support HMS Victory
  15. A Tombstone for Titanic Hero Robert John Hopkins in Jersey City
  16. Celebrating Oysters in Brooklyn & Newport
  17. Single Handed Trans-Atlantic Race — From 40 to 8 Days
  18. “Ghost Ship” Tamaya Washes up on Liberian Beach
  19. On Friday the 13th, the Unlikely Story of HMS Friday
  20. HMS Victory ‘Collapsing’ Under Her Own Weight
  21. Schooner A.J. Meerwald Crew Rescues Jet Skier in Delaware River
  22. HMS Illustrious, UK’s Only Working Aircraft Carrier, Bound for Scrapyard
  23. America’s Cup NYC — Technology, the Wind, and the River
  24. The Nautical Bulwer-Lytton Winners
  25. Scheduling & Sailing the America’s Cup on an Uncooperative River
  26. Polar Ship “Boaty McBoatface” to be named RRS Sir David Attenborough
  27. HMS Caroline, Last Jutland Survivor, Restored in Time for Centenial
  28. Ship Traffic as Seen From Space
  29. Media Announces Discovery of Cook’s HMS Endeavour — Again
  30. Carnival’s Fathom Adonia Docks in Havanna, Cuba
  31. Draken Harald Hårfagre — First Day at Sea and Detour to Lerwick

April 2016

  1. Missing Boys’ Boat Found, Restarting Tragic Family Saga
  2. Charting by ASV
  3. Harriett Tubman and the Great Combahee Ferry Raid
  4. New York’s Working Harbor Committee Seeking Executive Director
  5. NTSB Locates El Faro’s Voyage Data Recorder
  6. Ngoc Nguyen, From Boat Refugee to Maersk Captain
  7. “Bubble Man” Reza Baluchi Tries Again — Coast Guard Says ‘No’
  8. SS Great Britain — “The Greatest Experiment Since the Creation”
  9. Loch Ness Monster (Movie Prop) Located in the Loch
  10. Sinking of MV Cemfjord with Loss of Eight Entirely Avoidable
  11. Sailor Grub — CHOW: Creamed Sliced Beef on Toast (S.O.S.)
  12. Recreating 17th Century Sailor’s Grub on the Tall Ship Elissa
  13. “Boaty McBoatface” Wins in a Landslide & No, That Won’t be the Ship’s Name
  14. Search Resumes for El Faro Black Box in Very, Very Deep Water
  15. US Sailor Rescued 9 Times Sells Sloop Nora
  16. Civil Blockade Runner Agnes E. Fry Believed Found Off Oak Island, NC
  17. Titanic’s Unsinkable Survivors — Arthur John Priest & Violet Jessop
  18. US Navy Destroyer Donald Cook Buzzed Again by Russian Fighters in Baltic
  19. Why are the Big Boats Burning? More Than Just Superyachts at Risk
  20. USS Zumwalt is Too Stealthy — Adding Radar Reflectors
  21. Nauticus Buying Schooner Virginia with $1M State Grant
  22. Remembering Captain Robert M. Cusick
  23. A Sea Lion Pup Wanders into a Seafood Restuarant
  24. The Kings Yacht – HMY Britannia
  25. NYC Hidden Harbor Tour — Forgotten Harbor, Found in Art
  26. The Many Names for the the Many Masts of the Schooner Thomas W. Lawson
  27. Harnesses, Tethers and Sailors Overboard — No Easy Answers
  28. Public Notice: Ferryboat Binghamton Removal for Preservation and Restoration
  29. US Tests Sea Hunter, Anti-Submarine Drone Ship Technology
  30. Congress Authorizes Privateers April 3, 1776
  31. Second Fatality on IchorCoal in Clipper Round the World Race
  32. The Ten Stack Luxury Superliner!

March 2016

  1. Throwback Thursday: New York Harbor Tugs — Then & Now
  2. America’s Cup Racing Returns to New York, May 7 – 8th
  3. German WWI Destroyers V44 & V82 Lost and Now Found in Portsmouth Harbor
  4. Xenoturbella, the Mighty Purple Sock of the Sea
  5. Methane Bubbles — Latest Bermuda Triangle Silliness Sweeps the Internet
  6. Lobsterman by E.B. White
  7. Peter Stanford, South Street Seaport Museum Founder, Dies at 89
  8. Lost US Navy Tug USS Conestoga Discovered After 95 Years
  9. USS Vesuvius and the Amazing Dynamite Gun
  10. Forget the Cloud, The Internet is Beneath the Sea! — The Russian Threat
  11. Summer Programs on the Schooner Sultana
  12. Name UK’s New Polar Research Ship, But RRS Boaty McBoatface ?
  13. Wreck of Vasco da Gama’s Lost Ship Esmeralda Believed Found Off Oman
  14. Kon-Tiki 2 Crew Rescued, Hōkūleʻa Sails On
  15. SeaWorld Announces the Last Generation of Captive Orcas
  16. Humphrey Jennings’ “Farewell Topsails” 1937
  17. Earl of Pembroke at Weymouth
  18. Oracle Team USA AC45 Capsizes in Bermuda
  19. Remembering Weymouth History at the Weymouth Leviathan
  20. Did a 100,000 Year Old Iceberg Sink the Titanic? Or Perhaps a 4 Year Old Iceberg?
  21. Linda Collison’s Water Ghosts — Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist
  22. Bound for the Weymouth Leviathan
  23. Book Review: Alaric Bond’s HMS Prometheus — the Fine Line Between Valor and Recklessness
  24. Update #2 : Drifting Yacht & Dead German Sailor First Sighted by Clipper Round the World Racers
  25. Help SUNY Maritime at Fort Schuyler Replace the Empire State VI
  26. Podcast: “Captain Blackwell’s Prize” by V.E. Ulett
  27. NOAA Finds “Ghostlike” Octopod Off Hawaii
  28. Saga of the Bluenose II Continues — Schooner’s New Rudder to Cost Another Million
  29. Warning: Rogue Wave Ahead — Predicting the Ship Killing Waves
  30. Update: German Sailor on Drifting Yacht Dead for Only a Week
  31. Scott Kelly, Starship Sailor Returns Home Taller After a Year in Space
  32. Corpse of German Sailor Found on Drifting Yacht

February 2016

  1. New Masts for the 1895 Lumber Schooner C.A.Thayer
  2. Lessons Learned? Anthem of the Seas Cruise Cut Short to Avoid Storm
  3. Ex-USCG Cutter Lilac on $9.99 With Dave Evans
  4. Update: Battle over the Pocket Battleship Graf Spee’s Nazi Eagle
  5. Coast Guard Rescues Fishermen Off New York’s Rockaway Inlet
  6. Climate Change & the Sea — Rising Sea Levels & Continued Denial
  7. SS Badger, Last Great Lakes Coal-Fired Passenger-Car Ferry, Designated National Historic Landmark
  8. NOAA Video of Deep Ocean Hawai’ian Coral
  9. The Hanging of Captain Nathaniel Gordon of the Slave Ship Erie — February 21, 1862
  10. BAP Unión, Peru’s New Navy Sail Training Ship Commissioned
  11. Seal Waving From Ice Patch in the Hudson River
  12. El Faro Investigation — Questions About the Deadly Course
  13. Setting Sail into a Violent Storm — Really RCL? A Question of Credibility
  14. El Faro Tragedy — Investigation Continues on Shore and at Sea
  15. British Women Rowing, Records & Rescues
  16. Warm Wishes on a Chilly Morning — Valentine Islands
  17. Anthem of the Seas and the Storm — A Real World Stability Test
  18. Remembering the SS Marine Electric — a Tragedy that Made Us All Safer
  19. Titanic II, Not Quite an “Exact Replica” to Sail in 2018?
  20. Crossing the Bar — Incredible US Coast Guard Motor Lifeboats
  21. Why Did Anthem of the Seas Sail Straight into the Storm?
  22. Update: Anthem of the Seas Returning to New York Harbor After Severe Storm
  23. Anthem of the Seas — A Storm at Sea and a Storm on Twitter
  24. Bernie Webber — The Pendleton Rescue in His Own Words
  25. “The Finest Hours,” Greatest Small Boat Rescue in History — Movie Review
  26. Donations Up for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Executive Director Resigns
  27. Will the SS United States Sail Again? Crystal Cruises Tosses a Life Line
  28. Remembering SS Dorchester & the Four Chaplains
  29. Hōkūleʻa Arrives in Brasil on Round the World Voyage
  30. Cards Against Humanity & Hawaii 2, the Maine Island

January 2016

  1. Ships of the Future Past — the Demise of Commerical Hovercraft
  2. Mystery Longshoremen Walkout Briefly Shuts Down N.J. & N.Y. Piers
  3. Celebrate Lilac at Maritime Mardi Gras
  4. Two US Sailors Rescued Nine Times in Seven Months — “Catastrophe Waiting to Happen”
  5. Mystic Seaport : The Sabino Will Sail Again
  6. Boiler Trouble on the Mystic Seaport Steamer Sabino
  7. 100 Year Difference — MS Allure of the Seas vs RMS Titanic
  8. A Video for a Winter Sunday — Albin Nimbus 42 Sherry Dawn
  9. El Niño — A Blizzard, Starving Seals & Yellow Bellied Sea Snakes
  10. USS Fort Worth — Another LCS Gear Breakdown
  11. Clearwater in “Deep Trouble” Financially, Cancels Summer Music Festival
  12. Volvo Round Ireland Yacht Race — The Offshore Classic That You May Never Have Heard Of
  13. Maryland in $1.5 Million Partnership with Pride of Baltimore II
  14. Manatees Swim Back From the Brink
  15. At 64, Rich Wilson Prepares to “Go Around Again” in the 2016-17 Vendee Globe
  16. Why Won’t “The Bermuda Triangle” Just Go Away?
  17. The Otherworldly Beauty of Skellig Michael
  18. MH370 Search Locates 1800s Shipwreck
  19. What is a Riverine Command Boat?
  20. Atlantic Star –Newest & Largest Open-Top ConRo for ACL
  21. Boom ! Volvo Ocean Race — A Video for a Monday Morning
  22. Ships in Bottles — A Bit of the History and Lore
  23. Wrecks from the Lost Whaling Fleet of 1871 Found in Alaska
  24. Cousteau’s Calypso Set to Sail Again?
  25. Hinckley Yachts Acquires Morris Yachts
  26. Hermione – Stopover in Brest
  27. The Strange & Grim History of Battleship Island
  28. The Wreck of El Faro — NTSB Video from 60 Minutes
  29. Is the Explosive-Laden SS Richard Montgomery a Target for Terrorists?
  30. The Return of the Schooner Amistad
  31. The New Year’s Day Wave, 1995 — Remembering the “First” Rogue Wave

2015 397

December 2015

  1. On the Anniversary of the Sinking — A Review of John Broadwater’s USS Monitor
  2. San Jose, “Holy Grail of Shipwrecks” — the Legal Battles are Just Beginning
  3. Videos from the Clipper-Brig Morgenster
  4. Comanche’s First Sydney-Hobart Win Also Her Last?
  5. 209 Days at Sea — John Beedon First to Row Solo Across the Pacific
  6. Comanche & Rambler Lead in Boat-Breaking Sydney-Hobart Race
  7. Sydney Hobart Race 2015 — Collisions, Breakdowns & Heavy Weather
  8. Merry Christmas — US Navy Band Dueling Jingle Bells
  9. The Shantyman — Kindle Countdown, Starting at 99 Cents!
  10. Jules Verne — Two Past Trophy Winners in a Race Within a Race
  11. LCS Still “Little Crappy Ships”
  12. The Shantyman – One of Kirkus’ Best Indie Books of the Year 2015
  13. What the Fashionable Sailor Wears, Part 1 — A Leatherman Tread?
  14. The VPLP-Verdier Racers with Dali Moustaches — the Future or a Foil Too Far?
  15. Almost Home, USS Georgia Collides With Buoy
  16. Keel Laying for the Star Clipper’s Near-Replica of France II
  17. New from Old Salt Press — Britannia’s Spartan by Antione Vanner
  18. New from Old Salt Press — HMS Prometheus by Alaric Bond
  19. Ship Fires Shuts Houston Ship Channel — Another Day on the Congested Waterway
  20. Help Restore the Hudson Ferry Sloop Woody Guthrie
  21. In the Heart of the Sea — A Movie Review
  22. Remembering Mocha Dick, the Real Rogue White Whale Who Inspired Moby Dick
  23. Buffet on the Beach — Coffee, Noodles, Wine and the 25 Missing Containers
  24. John Lennon and the Voyage of the Megan Jaye
  25. USS Zumwalt, DDG 1000, Largest USN Destroyer on Sea Trials
  26. The PBY Seaplanes of Pearl Harbor — Rare Images from 74 Years Later
  27. Remembering the Halifax Explosion and the Boston Christmas Tree
  28. Over 30 Dead or Missing in Caspian Sea Drilling Rig Fire
  29. Colombia Announces Finding Galleon San José, the “Holy Grail of Ship Wrecks”
  30. Draken Harald Hårfagre Looking for Trans-Atlantic Crew
  31. The Wonderfully Alien Octopus
  32. Replica Viking Longship? Stop by the Gift Shop
  33. New High Tech Zumwalt-Class Destroyer — Is it Seaworthy?

November 2015

  1. Can Big Data Stop Overfishing? Will Google’s Global Fishing Watch Succeed?
  2. Project to Build Cutty Sark II
  3. Ghost Fleet Washes Ashore on Japan’s Coast — 11 Boats, 25 Bodies
  4. Blue Dragon Sea Slug — Tiny, Beautiful and Dangerous
  5. Voyage of the Mayflower II, 1957
  6. Coast Guard Pumps Benzene from Argo, 78 Year Old Lake Erie Toxic Wreck
  7. Donations Help Keep SS United States Afloat Well into Next Year
  8. Pre-Fab Marble Church to be Assembled after 1500 Years on Sea Floor
  9. Largest Mass Whale Stranding Ever Reported in Patagonia
  10. Help Save the Ada C. Lore
  11. Remembering the MS St. Louis and the “Voyage of the Damned”
  12. Engine Room Fire on Expedition Cruise Ship Le Boreal, Passengers Evacuated
  13. Over One Million Square Miles of New Ocean Sanctuaries
  14. El Faro Search Ends — Black Box Not Found
  15. Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard – Drone Flight
  16. Windjammer Peking Returning to Hamburg
  17. Schooner Spirit of South Carolina Returning to Charleston
  18. El Faro Update: Bridge Located, Search for Voyage Data Recorder Continues
  19. Kon-Tiki 2 — Exploration and/or Anachronism?
  20. New York’s Gowanus Canal — Watch out for the Three-Eyed Catfish
  21. My Version of Pisco Grog
  22. Hedy Lamarr — Radio-Controlled Torpedo Designer and Movie Star
  23. Submarine Missile Launch Creates West Coast Light Show
  24. Temporary Reprieve for SS United States
  25. Brazil’s Snake Island — Don’t Go There
  26. Wind Power Returns to Block Island
  27. Restoring the 1885 Windjammer Wavertree
  28. Transport Canada: Capsized Leviathan II Met Stability Requirements
  29. Fishing for and Swimming with Piranhas, the Ferocious Maneater That Isn’t
  30. NTSB: Wreckage Believed to be of EL Faro Located

October 2015

  1. Friday Evening at the Sultana Downrigging Weekend, Chestertown, MD
  2. A New Home in Red Hook, Brooklyn for the SS United States?
  3. Leviathan II & Ocean Thunderer — Death at Sea Lion Rocks
  4. Edwin Fox, Teak East Indiaman at Picton, NZ
  5. Why Stopping Ocean Plastic Dumping Matters — Are You Eating Plastic for Dinner?
  6. Canadian Whale Watching Boat Sinks : Five Dead, One Missing
  7. Five Countries are Responsible for 60% of Plastic Dumped in the Oceans
  8. The Threat of GPS Hacking — Brush off Those Sextants
  9. Hurricane Patricia — Record Breaking Storm on a Misnamed Ocean
  10. “The Finest Hours” — New Movie About Heroic Coast Guard Rescue
  11. NTSB Report: El Faro Captain Reported Hull Breach
  12. Happy Trafalgar Day — HMS Victory in Her True Colours
  13. World’s First LNG Powered Container Ship, Isla Bella, Delivered to TOTE
  14. Rescuing the Schooner Phoenix
  15. Enough Rain to Float a Battleship
  16. California Kayak Fisherman and the Hammerhead Shark
  17. L. Francis Herreshoff & QUIET TUNE
  18. Halsey Herreshoff on How Nathanael Herreshoff Designed His Boats
  19. The Amazing Herreshoff Brothers, Part 2 — Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, Wizard of Bristol
  20. The Amazing Herreshoff Brothers, Part 1 — John Brown Herreshoff, the Blind Boatbuilder
  21. The Herreshoff Legacy
  22. Restoring the Sloop Doris of 1905
  23. In the Amazon Basin on M/V La Amatista
  24. Sailing the Pride of Baltimore II
  25. Concert for Cello and Beluga Whales
  26. Williwaw & Hydroptere — Foiling Tris Sailing the Open Pacific
  27. Timelapse – Sailing Down the Expanded Suez Canal
  28. Update: Saildrones in the Bering Sea
  29. El Faro — a Ro/Ro not a Container Ship and Why that Mattered
  30. US Coast Guard: El Faro Believed to Have Sunk
  31. Updated: Life Ring from Ro/Ro El Faro Located, Ship Still Missing, Search Continues
  32. Ro/Ro Cargo Ship El Faro Still Missing with 33 Crew in Hurricane Joaquin
  33. What A Well Equipped Bosun Carries on the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry
  34. Clipper RTW Race — LMAX Exchange, From Winner to Hard Aground

September 2015

  1. World’s Largest Oyster Reef in the Chesapeake and a Planned Billion Oysters in NYC
  2. Our Soggy Solar System — Water on Mars and the Oceans of Ganymede
  3. Shell Abandons Alaska Arctic Drilling
  4. French “Russian” Mistral Amphibious Assault Ships Bound for Egypt
  5. Is Queen Elizabeth 2 Now a Dead Ship?
  6. Sunday’s “Super-Blood Moon” Eclipse — Probably Not the End of the World
  7. Massachusetts Man Yelling at a Fish (NSFW)
  8. Update: PortSide New York’s Norwegian Night of History & Bluegrass Now Free
  9. Largest, if Not Prettiest, Sailing Yacht with Possibly the Worst Name
  10. Slavery at Sea — Shrimp, Pet Food, & Human Trafficking
  11. A Video for a Monday Morning — Orcas and Humpbacks
  12. PortSide NewYork’s Norwegian Water Stories & a Night of Bluegrass
  13. JPK Dominates Fastnet — the New Generation of Performance Crusiers
  14. Nordlys — the Oldest/Newest Sailing Cargo Vessel in the World
  15. Sea Shanty Sessions 20th Anniversary Celebration at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor
  16. Pinky, the Albino Dolphin of the Calcasieu
  17. Peacemaker & Coronet — Of Cults & Yachts
  18. Maidentrip — A Documentary of Laura Dekker’s Epic Voyage
  19. The Amazing and Painful Portuguese Man o’ War — An Organism or a Colony?
  20. Dorade’s “Return to Blue Water” Campaign a Rousing Success
  21. All Available Boats — Remembering the Amazing Manhattan Boatlift of 9/11
  22. Engine Room Fire on Carnival Liberty Cuts Short Trip — Chronic Cruise Ship Problem Continues
  23. Cutter Lilac Returns to Staten Island as Star of Commericial
  24. Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm — Remembering the Deadly 1900 Galveston Hurricane
  25. Parade of Sail — 31st Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival
  26. Schooners Columbia, American Eagle & Lettie G. Howard Race at Gloucester
  27. French Bomber of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior Apologizes 30 Years Later
  28. Death on the Clipper Round the World Race
  29. Sailing Supermaxi Comanche
  30. A Question of Priorities — Icebreakers vs Aircraft Carriers
  31. In Praise of Galway Hookers
  32. Invasive Species Invade the Med Through the Suez Canal

August 2015

  1. Why Did the Greenwich Meridian Shift?
  2. Clipper Round the World Race Starts
  3. The Soaring Body-Count of the Migrant Flood
  4. Quadrofoil Electric Hydrofoil Watercraft
  5. The Newest Oldest Message in a Bottle
  6. Where is the North Korean Submarine Fleet?
  7. Wreck of the USS Macon — Flying Aircraft Carrier
  8. Snug Harbor Shanties, A Short Documentary — Singing the History that Can’t be Found in Textbooks
  9. Pride of the Ladies’ Gunboat Association — CSS Georgia Artifacts Recovered
  10. Mysterious Whale Deaths on the Coast of Alaska
  11. Spirits of the Passage: Stories of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Opens on the Cutter Lilac
  12. Sail Amsterdam 2015 — Sail In Parade
  13. The Clipper Ship Noonday & the Ships of Badger’s Island
  14. Dame Ellen MacArthur — Circling the Globe and the Circular Economy
  15. Dream Symphony — a Clipper Ship for the 21st Century
  16. One Leg of a Long Journey — S.S. Columbia Heading Soon to Buffalo
  17. 500 Year Old Sea Monster Figurehead from the Bottom of the Baltic Sea
  18. South Street Seaport Museum to Get $10.4 Million Federal Funding for Superstorm Sandy Repairs
  19. Massive Explosions in Chinese Port City Tianjin Kill at Least Fifty
  20. “Son of Migaloo” Sighted off Australia’s Gold Coast
  21. Sail the Seven Seas — the Seven Seas for Sale
  22. Pitcairn Island — Tropical Living, Free Land and Internet!
  23. Own the Historic Schooner Isaac H. Evans for an Essay & $125
  24. US Coast Guard Busts Narco-sub with $181 Million in Cocaine Aboard
  25. Captain Mary’s Story Hour on the Cutter Lilac & Rides on the Fireboat John J Harvey
  26. Timelapse Cruise Ship Under Construction
  27. Natalia Molchanova — World’s Greatest Free Diver, Presumed Dead
  28. Washington and Hamilton on the US Coast Guard’s 225th Birthday
  29. Near 300th Anniversary of Terra Firme Fleet Disaster, Divers Find $1MM in Spanish Gold
  30. The Indian Ocean Gyre, the Garbage Patch and Malaysia Air Flight 370
  31. What Happened to the Polina Star III? New Oyster 90 Sinks off Spain

July 2015

  1. The Problem with Boat Names & Double-Enders
  2. Bon Voyage — Donna Lange & Inspired Insanity on Second Solo Circumnativation
  3. The Hallucinogen Magic of Sea Sapphires
  4. The French Prize by James Nelson — a Review
  5. The Glory and the Danger of Open Water — Thoughts on Two Missing Teens
  6. ‘Sea Slaves’: the Human Misery that Feeds Pets and Livestock
  7. Will Pollution Limit Faroe Island Pilot Whale Hunts?
  8. Kick ’em Jenny – Ready to Rock Out From Underwater
  9. Fifty One Years Ago, Trawler Snoopy and Eight Crew Casualties of Torpedo Alley
  10. Stowaways — Complicated, Messy, Expensive and Possibly Dangerous
  11. Lucy Bellwood’s Baggywrinkles: A Lubber’s Guide to Life at Sea
  12. Fanning to Shark — “Thanks For Not Eating Me!”
  13. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry on Her Maiden Voyage
  14. Outlaw Ocean — An Excellent New Series in the NY Times
  15. What’s in a Name? Google Drops Chinese Name for Scarborough Shoal
  16. Key & Peele’s Feminist Pirate Song (Just Barely NSFW)
  17. Bitten by Blackfish, SeaWorld Responds with Falsehoods
  18. Goodreads Giveaway — Water Ghosts by Linda Collison
  19. Annie C. Maguire and the Wreck at Portland Head Light
  20. Shell’s Arctic Troubles Continues — Icebreaker Fennica Sent South for Repairs
  21. Captain Kate McCue — First American Woman to Command a Large Cruise Ship
  22. Continuing Discomfort on Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort
  23. Belfast Tall Ship’s Festival
  24. Captain John Newton & Amazing Grace — The Story Behind the Myth
  25. Breathtaking Drone Video of Tall Ships Greenport 2015
  26. The Shantyman, A Kirkus Indie Book of the Month for August
  27. Gentleman’s Wager
  28. El Galeon Andalusia — Fascinating if Occasionally Anachronistic
  29. Of Shark Attacks and Twitter Feeds
  30. Four Hundred Years of Sailing Ships at the South Street Seaport
  31. Hermione — Lafayette Parade of Ships, New York Harbor July 4, 2105
  32. Cousteau’s Calypso — Abandoned and Rotting
  33. Gallery — l’Hermione at South Street Seaport
  34. l’Hermione at NYC’s South Street Seaport, Open to the Public Thursday

June 2015

  1. Voyages of Discovery — Named What?
  2. Glowing Coral in the Deep Red Sea
  3. The Ballad of Preserved Fish
  4. Droopy Duck — The Continuing Saga of the Philly Giant Rubber Duck
  5. LightSail — Sailing on the Light of the Sun
  6. Artist’s Midsummer Party on the Cutter Lilac
  7. Is the Philly Giant Rubber Duck an Imposter?
  8. The Philadelphia-Camden Tall Ships Festival 2015
  9. Captain Hansen Gregory & the Birth of the Modern Donut
  10. Summer Solstice – Moonlit Sailor
  11. Why is the Ocean Salty? Is the Old Answer Wrong?
  12. Happy Juneteenth! Emancipation on Galveston Island 150 Years Ago Today
  13. Derelict Gunboat 55, Rainmaker, Spotted Adrift Off Cape Hatteras
  14. HMT Lancastria – A “Secret Sacrifice” No Longer
  15. The French Navy Ship Insere and the Statue of Liberty
  16. Before Caitlyn Jenner, Louisa Jo Killen, Folk Song and Shanty Singer
  17. Bluenose II Sets Sail At Last
  18. Vampire Lampreys Falling From the Sky in Alaska?
  19. Tall Ship Kruzenshtern Rams Icelandic Coast Guard Vessels
  20. Alaric Bond’s The Scent of Corruption — (The Fighting Sail Series Book 7)
  21. l’Hermione Greeted by Fireworks at Mount Vernon
  22. In Transatlantic Race, Can Dorade Repeat the Magic of 84 Years Ago?
  23. The Great New Jersey Shore Tsunami, That Wasn’t
  24. Happy World Oceans Day, For What It’s Worth
  25. Sailing Summer Camp on the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry
  26. l’Hermione Arrives in Yorktown
  27. Two Great Hidden Harbor Tours — “Made in Brooklyn” & “Family Fun Day”
  28. Moving Lighthouses on Martha’s Vineyard & Block Island
  29. Yangtze River Tragedy — 14 Survivors, 444 Dead or Missing, Far More Questions Than Answers
  30. The Secret Opera — Opera Cabaret on the Cutter Lilac, June 4th
  31. Frigate l’Hermione Arrives Off the Virginia Capes
  32. MV Dong Fang Zhi Xing Capsizes in Yangtze — 458 Aboard, Over 430 Missing
  33. Secrets of New York: Captains, Pirates and Ghosts

May 2015

  1. Water Ghosts by Linda Collison — A Review
  2. The Strange Saga of the Mountain Submarine
  3. Point Nemo & the Spacecraft Cemetery — Where Spaceships Go to Die
  4. Piracy, Packet Ships and the Erie Canal — Why New York is the Center of US Publishing
  5. PortSide NewYork & the Tanker Mary A. Whalen Have Found A Home!
  6. Kirkus Starred Review of The Shantyman
  7. Coming Home to USCG Cutter Lilac — A Voice Tube, the Wheel and the Builder’s Plate
  8. Shipstrikes & Blue Whales — A Whale Too Large?
  9. Captain Kidd’s Treasure Found in Madagascar? The Legendary Treasures of Captain Kidd
  10. Star Clippers Building World’s Largest Square-Rigged Passenger Ship
  11. Sonya Baumstein Rowing Across the Pacific Alone
  12. Fleet Week 2015 in New York Harbor
  13. Restoring the Wavertree 2015
  14. USS Constitution Shifts to Drydock
  15. Lilac Arts Launching Tuesday, May 19, on ex-USCG Cutter Lilac
  16. “Paddle in Seattle” Protests Around Shell’s Polar Pioneer — Saying “Shell-No” to Arctic Drilling
  17. The Mystery of Beluga Whales in Narragansset Bay
  18. 12,000 Visitors to STV Oliver Hazard Perry in Newport
  19. Rebuilding the Schooner Nathaniel Bowditch
  20. U.S.C.G. Cutter Lilac Re-Opens May 19th with Lilac Arts Series
  21. Swedish Singing Sailor to Russian Subs — ‘This Way if You Are Gay’
  22. Diving Pigs Join Dock Dogs and Diving Horses
  23. The End of Falls of Clyde? Too Many Broken Promises?
  24. Sailors’ Tattoos on Mother’s Day
  25. USS Recruit — The Unsinkable Warship
  26. How Does an Octopus Keep Track of Eight Arms?
  27. The Shantyman, Quarterdeck Editor’s Choice, Reviewed by George Jepson
  28. Happy 250th Birthday HMS Victory!
  29. Update: Iran Reported to Release Container Ship Maersk Tigris
  30. Quarterdeck Interview of Rick Spilman by George Jepson
  31. Does Iran Have Any Conceivable Case for Seizing the Maersk Tigris?
  32. A Message for Prince George from HMS Lancaster
  33. Update: Tragedy at Dauphin Island — Six Dead or Missing
  34. Lending Club 2 Shatters Newport to Bermuda Speed Record
  35. International Scurvy Awareness Day — Really?
  36. Coming Soon — Water Ghosts by Linda Collison
  37. Was a Kayaking “Accident” Really Murder on the Hudson?

April 2015

  1. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Shifts To Fort Adams
  2. Strange Doings in the Strait — What We Know About the Maersk Tigris
  3. Container Ship Maersk Tigris Diverted by Iran in Strait of Hormuz
  4. Tragedy on Mobile Bay — 2 Dead and 5 Missing in Dauphin Island Regatta
  5. America’s Cup — Will the Soap Opera Ruin the Race?
  6. Trucker’s Hitch — What Does the Knot Say?
  7. Swimming the Gowanus Canal on Earth Day? Don’t Drink the Water!
  8. Half Moon in Perspective
  9. Carnival Spirit Delayed Off Sydney in High Seas
  10. On Earth Day — the Worldwide Wind on the World Wide Web
  11. Forty Five Years Ago — Williwaw, An Oceangoing Foiling Tri
  12. Update: Migrant Death Ships — 900 More Die on Sunday
  13. A Belaying Pin from Frigate l’Hermione
  14. l’Hermione Sets Sail To America Today
  15. Farewell to Newtown Creek, New York’s Lovely “Honey Tanker”
  16. Help Kitsap Maritime & Fiddler’s Dream — 110% Matching on May 5th
  17. Interview on BBC Radio’s Mark Forrest Show
  18. Desperate Exodus Continues — 400 Migrants Feared Dead in Latest Capsize
  19. Update: Gunboat’s New G4 Flying Cruiser!
  20. The Shantyman, Ice Islands and Climate Change
  21. Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship — Sailing on Water & Light
  22. 2011 Tsunami Derelict Drifts to Oregon with Live Yellowtail Jack in Hold
  23. Discomfort on the USNS Comfort As it Deploys on Continuing Promise 2015
  24. Help Keep Hawaiian Chieftain Afloat
  25. Derelicts Adrift — Angel & Fannie E Wolston
  26. Russian Submarine Orel Fire on 26th Anniversary of the Komsomolets Fire
  27. The Truly Tall Ship Oliver Hazard Perry
  28. Louis Jordan — Drifting Sailor Update : Media Misreports Story, Now Reports that Skeptics Doubt Sailor
  29. Frigate l’Hermione — Sea Trials 2014
  30. Four Hour Lunar Eclipse in One Minute
  31. Louis Jordan, Sixty Six Days Adrift — What Really Happened?
  32. The Strange Saga of the Fake Pirate Ship, Liana’s Ransom — Rescue and Two Dismastings
  33. Russian Trawler Dalniy Vostok Sinks Off Kamchatka — 56 Dead, 13 Missing
  34. Hugo Vihlen & the Voyage of the April Fool

March 2015

  1. Life at Sea | European Spirit
  2. New York Fleet Week May 20 — 26
  3. Update: WHC Movie Night — MV Liemba
  4. Ray Collins — Catching the Waves
  5. Hard Times for the Famine Ship Jeanie Johnston
  6. Help Urban Boatbuilders Win $62,000!
  7. Working Harbor Committee Movie Night — MV Liemba
  8. Lan Yu “Canoes”
  9. Commodore John Barry — the Other Father of the US Navy
  10. The Kelly Brothers — Starship Sailors, A Shared Mission to the Heavens and on the Ground
  11. Will Prince Albert of Monaco Save Cousteau’s Calypso?
  12. Star of India Tacking and Wearing
  13. The Shantyman, Reviewed by David Hayes
  14. Happy First Day of Spring — Equinox, Eclipse, Supermoon & Snowstorm
  15. Is Captain Mary Becker Greene Still Watching Out for the Delta Queen?
  16. Will the Steamboat Delta Queen Sail Again?
  17. Did Saint Brendan the Navigator Sail the Atlantic?
  18. Shinano — WWII’s Largest Aircraft Carrier and the USS Archerfish
  19. Sailing A Sinking Sea, a Film about the Moken People
  20. Cousteau’s Calypso in Peril
  21. Sick Seven Year Old Girl Rescued from Saint Helena
  22. Woman Dies and Two Are Injured After Boat Hit by Gray Whale
  23. A Vision to Save the South Street Seaport
  24. Team Vestas Wind on Cargados Carajos Shoals — Chartplotter Assisted Grounding
  25. The $300K Grinder & Latest Team Oracle USA Lawsuit
  26. The Downside of Tasting Shipwreck Beer and Wine
  27. The Supreme Court, Grouper and SOX
  28. Of What Do Whales Dream When Asleep in the Sea?
  29. Musashi, Last Japanese WW II Battleship Found
  30. Recent Reviews, Old Salt Press Authors, Part 2 — McBook Press’ Quarterdeck, Spring 2015
  31. Recent Reviews, Old Salt Press Authors, Part 1 — Astrodene’s Historic Naval Fiction Log Book March 2015
  32. HMS Victory : Amazing 3D Map of Nelson’s Battleship
  33. When Did the Wine Dark Sea Turn Blue?
  34. New York — A Tough Town for Historic Ships

February 2015

  1. Eugenie Clark, “The Shark Lady,” Dies at 92
  2. Ice Caves and Slurpee Waves
  3. “Basically, I can kill people” — Joan Druett’s Interview of Alaric Bond
  4. Sea Fog Shuts Down Port of Tampa — Cruise Ship Delayed, Voyage Cancelled
  5. Keep Off the Ice & Remembering Robert Fulton, Who Died 200 Years Ago Today
  6. High Powered Boat Crashes into Beach Restaurant Near Tampa Florida
  7. The Shantyman — Now Available in Print
  8. Fireboat Whoop-Dee-Do March 16 for the Fireboat John J. Harvey
  9. US and Canadian Coast Guard Team Up to Rescue Laker SS Arthur M. Anderson
  10. Hoard of Gold Coins Discovered in Caesarea Harbor
  11. Blackbeard’s Medicine Chest & the Media
  12. Apple, Microsoft and the Dutch East India Company
  13. New Jersey Oyster Madness
  14. Spirit of Adventure Trust – One Incredible Adventure
  15. Hong Kong Ferry Captain Sentence to Eight Years in Collision Where 39 Died
  16. Frozen Beauty – A Winter Morning on the Hudson River
  17. Happy Valentine’s Day — A Great Day for Jarvis & Nelson, A Bad Day for Cook
  18. Pioneering Spirit, World’s Largest Ship Without the Nazi Name
  19. Eleanor’s Odyssey by Joan Druett — a Review
  20. Captain Schettino of the Costa Concordia Guilty of Manslaughter
  21. J-Boat Endeavour, an Amazing Survivor of Another Age
  22. Interview with V.E. Ulett by Joan Druett
  23. The Hardtackers, New Video
  24. Kalmar Nyckel Winter Sail Training
  25. The Guinea Boat by Alaric Bond — a Review
  26. Captain Virginia A. Wagner and Her Continuing Legacy
  27. Blackwell’s Homecoming by V.E. Ulett — a Review
  28. About The Shantyman, a New Novel by Rick Spilman
  29. Britannia’s Shark by Antoine Vanner — Review by David Hayes
  30. New Releases From Old Salt Press
  31. Jon Sanders Sails Home to Perth After Ninth Circumnavigation

January 2015

  1. Sail On: The Story of Lettie G Howard
  2. Remembering the Forgotten MV Wilhelm Gustloff
  3. Tommy Thompson, Fugitive “Ship of Gold” Treasure Hunter, Arrested
  4. The Deuce, the World’s Largest Iceboat — 54 Feet of Fast
  5. Tall Ship Providence Blown Over in Blizzard Winds
  6. Peggy of Castletown, UK’s Oldest Yacht, to be Restored
  7. Bombed Out Blizzards, Hurricanes and the Gulf Stream
  8. Extraordinary Toroidal Vortices
  9. HMS Victory at 250 Years Old — Last Chance to Save the Historic Ship?
  10. Redbird Reef — Subway Cars, Fish and Hurricanes
  11. Farewell to the Ferry Kalakala, Art Deco Icon Heads to the Scrap Yard
  12. Salvatore Polisi 1935 – 2015
  13. Wind Power in New York Harbor — 1815 and Today
  14. The Vagina Kayak and Japanese Genital Politics
  15. Vindskip Design Uses Its Hull as a Sail
  16. USS Donald Church Buzzed by Russian Fighter — What Really Happened?
  17. Update: Navy Purchasing Scandal — Fat Leonard Cops A Plea
  18. Summer Camps for Teens Aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry
  19. Flettner Fleet Doubles in Size — M/V Estraden Adds A Rotor
  20. Ex-Miami Dolphin Rob Konrad Swims 9 Miles to Shore
  21. CSCL Globe — the World’s “Largest Container Ship” & Bragging Rights
  22. Oasis of the Seas Passenger Falls Overboard Unnoticed, Rescued by Disney Ship
  23. Update: Höegh Osaka Floats Free, Salvage Underway, Weather Permtting
  24. Maine Windjammer Sailing — Come Sail with Us
  25. Harwich Mayflower Making Progress
  26. Delaware’s Tall Ship Kalmar Nyckel Seeks Volunteer Sailing Crew
  27. Update: Sinking of the Cemfjord — Should the Ship Have Been Allowed to Sail?
  28. Update: Höegh Osaka Grounded Deliberately, Salvage Planning Underway
  29. Eight Crew of Cement Carrier Cemfjord Feared Lost
  30. Car Carrier Hoegh Osaka Aground on Bramble Bank in the Solent
  31. Captain John W. Doswell, the Final Voyage
  32. Team Vestas Wind Returning to the Volvo Ocean Race
  33. Italy Rescues Abandoned Migrant Ship — Second in Three Days
  34. Watching the Ball Drop — the Nautical Origins of a New Year’s Tradition

2014 424

December 2014

  1. Blue Sky M — Abandoned Migrant Ship on Autopilot
  2. Update: Ferry Norman Atlantic, Death Toll Rises, Manifest Confusion
  3. A Close Encounter With a Walrus
  4. Update: Norman Atlantic Fire, 478 Rescued, At Least 7 Dead
  5. Italian Ro/Ro Ferry Norman Atlantic On Fire in High Winds & Seas in Adriatic
  6. The Wilkes Exploring Expedition and the US Botanic Garden
  7. Alan Villiers, Mayflower II, Joseph Conrad and Mystic Seaport
  8. Christmas Night by C. Fox Smith, Adapted for Singing by Charlie Ipcar
  9. Recovery of the Volvo Ocean Racer Vestas Wind
  10. SS City of Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco’s Deadliest Shipwreck Found Again
  11. Is Solar Sail Cloth in our Future?
  12. Happy Solstice –Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky
  13. Paula Novotná Kite Surfing – A Taste of Brazil
  14. 72 Years Later, Captain Claudius Credited with Sinking U-Boat
  15. Swedish Kayaker Catches Record-breaking Greenland Shark
  16. ‘Super-Bug’ Found in Rio’s Dirty Olympic Sailing Waters
  17. Potential Progress in Saving the SS United States
  18. Russia & the French Mistral Amphibious Assault Ships
  19. Eleanor’s Odyssey — a New Book by Joan Druett
  20. Sailing the Pride of Baltimore II
  21. Fake Utah Whale’s Tale Ties Up 911 Dispatch Phone Lines
  22. Captain “Daddy Art” Daniels — Oldest Skipjack Captain Working the Chesapeake
  23. Engineer Needed on the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry
  24. Mates’ Jobs on the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry
  25. A Bad Night for the Oyster Schooner Ada C. Lore, Cousin to A.J. Meerwald
  26. Cruise Ships & Sewage — FOE Misses the Point
  27. Tall Ships Philadelphia – Camden June 25-28, 2015
  28. Female Officers Secretly Videotaped in Shower on Submarine USS Wyoming
  29. The Original Pearl Harbor Attack Emergency Radio Broadcast from Washington DC
  30. Liberty Ship SS John W. Brown Steaming Home to Baltimore
  31. Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests Cross the Atlantic
  32. Vestas Wind, Andrea Doria, USS Guardian, Royal Majesty and GPS Assisted Grounding
  33. Update: Queen Elizabeth 2 Rotting Away in Dubai
  34. Cruising on Foils? Gunboat’s New G4 Flying Cruiser
  35. The Tjipetir Mystery — Gutta Percha Blocks & the Miyazaki Maru

November 2014

  1. Team Vesta Wind Runs Aground on Mauritius Reef in Volvo Ocean Race
  2. Humpback Whales Dramatic Return to New York Waters
  3. Antoine Vanner’s New Novel, Britannia’s Shark Out Dec. 5th, Available for Pre-Order
  4. Thanksgiving, Whaling Ships, Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary’s Lamb & a Liberty Ship
  5. The Board of Longitude Project — Digitizing 18th Century Science and Technology
  6. Rare ‘Black Seadevil’ Anglerfish Caught on Video in Monterey Bay
  7. Update: US Navy Deploys Laser Weapon on USS Ponce in the Persian Gulf
  8. Older Sailors and the Sea — Robin Knox-Johnston, Stanley Paris & Jeanne Socrates
  9. America’s Cup to be Sailed in Bermuda
  10. 120 Year Old Schooner Ernestina to be Restored at Boothbay
  11. TS Royalist Decomissioned, Smooth Sailing to the New Royalist
  12. The Wreck of the Antares on Australia’s Shipwreck Coast 1914
  13. The Grand Banks Tsunami — 85 Years Ago Today
  14. Norovirus Outbreak on the Crown Princess
  15. Here Comes Lafayette’s Hermione — Voyage 2015
  16. Australian Rides Dead Humpback Whale
  17. Restoring the Schooner Nathaniel Bowditch
  18. The World’s Largest Wo-Wos — Oasis of the Seas & Ocean Shearer
  19. Horizon Line Sold — the End of an Era
  20. On Armistice Day, Remembering the German High Seas Fleet Mutiny of 1918
  21. MV Liemba — the World’s Oldest Passenger/Cargo Steamer at 100
  22. Panoramic and Audio Tour of USS Pampanito
  23. Ship’s Bell from Franklin’s HMS Erebus Recovered
  24. Supermaxi Comanche on Sea Trials
  25. Lake Champlain Echolocation — Champ or a Beluga Whale?
  26. Dramatic Route du Rhum Start — Dismastings, Collisions, & Lightning Strikes
  27. Kalmar Nyckel — Round Tops, Sprit Topmast & Radar
  28. 25 Mind Blowing Facts About The Shipping Industry
  29. Sultana Downrigging Weekend, Chestertown, MD
  30. Remembering the Rohilla Rescue, October 30, 1914

October 2014

  1. The Haunting of the LNG Taurus
  2. “Bubble Man” Reza Baluchi Plans To Try Running To Bermuda Again !?!
  3. Sultana Downrigging Weekend — Tall Ship and Wooden Boat Festival
  4. The Old Man and the Schooner — Help Gold Eagle Sail Again
  5. Update: SS Badger, America’s Last Coal Fired Ship No Longer Dumping Ash
  6. First Annual Fundraiser & Restoring Steam to the Lilac, America’s Only Steam-Powered Lighthouse Tender
  7. What Happens When You Crack An Egg Underwater?
  8. Troubled Sisters — Russian Carrier Admiral Kuznetsov & Chinese Liaoning
  9. DNA Suggests Ancient Sailors Traveled Between Easter Island & South America
  10. Dwarf Planet Ceres — More Freshwater Than On the Surface of the Earth
  11. Swedish Navy Still Hunting Mystery Submarine
  12. “On Board a Man o’ War” – Nelson’s Victory & Death at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
  13. Update: Russian Ship Simushir and Carnival Magic Reach Port Safely
  14. Fire on the Cutty Sark! Again?
  15. Canoes vs Colliers — Pacific Climate Warriors Blockade Newcastle
  16. Russian Cargo Ship Simushir Under Tow Off Coast of British Columbia
  17. PortSide NewYork Fundraiser — Resiliency is our Hook, October 28, 2014
  18. Belize Refuses Entry to Carnival Magic As Ebola Hysteria Continues
  19. Coming Soon: Antoine Vanner’s “Britannia’s X” – Guess the “X” Competition
  20. The Antikythera Treasure Ship and the Titanic
  21. Murphy Was a Sailor — Lessons from a New York Yacht Club Seamanship Saturday
  22. Happy Birthday US Navy, Not to be Confused with Navy Day or the Founding of the Navy
  23. Fire Surfing, Really
  24. After Coast Guard Rescue, Reza Baluchi Says “I Want My Bubble Back!”
  25. Replica of Henry Hudson’s Ship Half Moon May Move to Netherlands
  26. The Nautilus at 60 — Nuclear Power Tested in an Idaho Desert
  27. Journey of the Jubilee Hope
  28. Update: Columbus’ Ship Santa Maria Not Found Off Cap-Haitien
  29. The Real and Deadly Lake Monster of Lake Nyos
  30. Lighting The Way : Learning about Lighthouses at Mystic Seaport
  31. 600 Year Old Waka, a Voyaging Canoe, Links New Zealand to Polynesia
  32. A Modern Viking Funeral With a Little Help From the Coast Guard
  33. Confirmed: Franklin’s HMS Erebus Found in Victoria Strait
  34. Sting’s The Last Ship — A Musical of Love and Loss in a Tyneside Shipyard

September 2014

  1. Lucky Sturgeon — A Riverkeeper’s Beer
  2. Collision Between between Colombo Express and Maersk Tanjong in Suez Canal
  3. Oceans Older than the Sun
  4. The Wanderer — the Slave Ship Flying a Yacht Club Burgee
  5. Masts Stepped on the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry
  6. Update: Icelandic Panel Certifies Lagarfljótsormurinn Video “Authentic”
  7. Tank Bennett, the Only American Sailor in the Royal Navy
  8. The Two SS Athenia, Torpedoed by U-Boats
  9. Pride of Baltimore II Boston to NYC: Setting Sail on a Tallship
  10. Clipper City Craft Beer Tasting Cruise Goes Aground
  11. Historic Steamer SS Columbia Coming to New York!
  12. Crowdsourcing “Rescue of the Bounty -The Film”
  13. On “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” Why Romanticize Thieves and Murderers?
  14. Tommy Thompson, SS Central America & the Plague of Gold
  15. From Blue Water, White Death & Jaws to Katherine the Great White Twitter Shark
  16. The Schooners Columbia — 1923 & 2014
  17. Frigate Hermione is Under Sail!
  18. Battle of Trindade — Battle of the Doppelgänger Passenger Liners
  19. The Battle Of Fort McHenry & the Star Spangled Banner
  20. NOAA Expands Thunder Bay’s Shipwreck Alley Sanctuary Tenfold
  21. Bicentenial of the Battle of Plattsburgh — the False Nile & Defeat of the Royal Navy
  22. Repost: BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience
  23. A Super-Hero Suit to Dive on Antikythera Shipwreck
  24. Ship From Franklin Expedition & Possibly the Battle of Baltimore Found
  25. Great News — California Blue Whales Rebound to Near Historic Levels
  26. Chinese Supercavitating Supersonic Submarines? Is Supercavitation the Future of High Speed Ocean Travel?
  27. Floating Library Launches on the Lilac
  28. Mystery Munitions Recovered from Lake George
  29. A New Owner for HMS Pickle
  30. Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival 2014
  31. Tuvalu — Tiny Pacific Island Nation in the Age of the Internet
  32. Italian Navy’s Operation Mare Nostrum Rescues 4,000 Refugees
  33. Migrant Offshore Aid Station — A Millionaire’s Vision to Save Refugees

August 2014

  1. A Rainbow of Lobsters — from Blue to Calico to Striped
  2. The Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Returns to Mystic — and the Voyage Continues
  3. Struggle over Kurdish Oil — Tanker United Kalavrvta Goes Dark in Gulf of Mexico
  4. Rocking the Boat in Hunts Point — Where Boats Build Kids
  5. 30th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival
  6. John Broadwater’s USS Monitor – A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage, a Review
  7. 22nd Annual Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition, Sunday August 31st
  8. Choking the Oceans With Plastic
  9. Of Kwakiutl Shell Beaches and Beaches of Glass
  10. 2014 Race to Mackinac
  11. SeaWorld, the Blue World Project and the Blackfish Effect
  12. USS Houston Wreck, Popular Dive Site for Years, Finally Confirmed by US Navy
  13. Russian Barque Kruzenshtern Withdraws from Race After Sinking Tug
  14. Australian Salt Water Crocodile Kills Fisherman
  15. From Lakes Freighters to Lake Houses — Benson Ford & John W. Boardman
  16. Slow Life — Time Lapse Sponge and Coral
  17. Fukushima Fear Mongering & the Damage it Does
  18. The Cooperage at Mystic Seaport: A Woodworking Craft
  19. Italy Bans Largest Cruise Ships from Venice
  20. The Last of the Caballito de Totora, the Little Reed Horses of Peru
  21. Concordia Yawls — An Appreciation
  22. The Super Moon on the Schooner Pioneer in a Frenetic New York Harbor
  23. Winnie of Bourne, Concordia Yawl, Raised After Sinking Off Nantucket
  24. The Sardine Run — Gannetts, Sharks, Dolphins & Divers
  25. Hawaii’s Twin Hurricane Near Miss, King “TUTT” & El Niño
  26. Twenty Eight Feet: Life on a Little Wooden Boat
  27. Bjoern Kils & New York Media Boat to the Rescue, Again
  28. Capt. Schettino Lectures on Emergency Procedures? Really?
  29. Two Ships from the River Clyde — Glennlee & Falls of Clyde
  30. Coal Mine Canaries, Lake Erie Algae and Washington Oysters — Will We Ignore the Warnings?
  31. Draken Harald Hårfagre, a Broken Mast and Why They Didn’t Row to Port
  32. Vacuuming New York’s Blue Whale
  33. Update: The 18th Century World Trade Center Ship May Have Been Built Near Philadelhia

July 2014

  1. Vibro Vulnificus — Flesh-Eating Bacteria Far More Dangerous Than Sharks
  2. Bumbling Boaters Reveal Huge Security Flaws at New York Airports
  3. Schooner Ernestina Will Sail Again — Private Donors Contribute $2.8 Million
  4. From Dazzle Ships to Dazzle Faces — Camouflage Meant to Confuse
  5. The Demise of Ocean Classroom Foundation
  6. HMS London Shipwreck — Glimpsing a 300 Year Old Disaster
  7. Schooner Virginia Cuts Season Short, Will Be Put Up For Sale
  8. Ocean Classroom’s Spirit of Massachusetts, Harvey Gamage, & Westward to be Auctioned
  9. New Dory for Tall Ship Gazela
  10. What is the Bloop? Giant Sea Monster or Calving Ice Shelf?
  11. Final Voyage of the Costa Concordia
  12. Update: Sewol Ferry Disaster — Ferry Owner Yoo Byung-eun Found Dead
  13. PortSide’s “Heavy Metal” Fundraising Sale!
  14. Isabelle Autissier: Lessons from the Sea
  15. LaSalle’s Freeze-Dried Shipwreck La Belle on the Move
  16. “No Ordinary Women” — Reality TV and the Hyping of the Volvo Ocean Race
  17. Crow’s Nests : Part 2 — Floki, Ravens and Fighting Tops
  18. Crow’s Nests : Part 1 — Melville & Captain Scoresby
  19. Congratulations to Joan Druett — The Beckoning Ice Makes the Long List
  20. Refloating the Costa Concordia
  21. Captain William Thomas Shorey, the Black Ahab
  22. Whaler Charles W. Morgan Sails with Whales off Stellwagen Bank
  23. New London’s SailFest 2014
  24. Update: Yang­­-suis & Archimedes Burning Mirrors
  25. City of Water Day Festival, July 12th in New York Harbor
  26. Grand Banks Oyster Bar on the Schooner Sherman Zwicker on the Hudson
  27. Swedish Warship Mars, Sunk in 1564, Preserved in the Baltic
  28. Schooner HMS Pickel for Sale on Ebay
  29. The Fishermen, the Swimmer and the Great White Shark off Manhattan Beach
  30. Hannah Whiteley Kiteboarding — Life Simple & Good
  31. The Barracuda Bites Back — Crew of Korean Bulker JS Comet Medevaced Off Florida Coast
  32. Inside the Costa Concordia — New Video, Days Before Refloating
  33. Queen Elizabeth II Christens Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
  34. South Australia Eviro Boss Says Historic Clipper, City of Adelaide, “The Last Thing We Need…”
  35. Congratulations, Again, to Admiral Michelle Howard, Four Star Admiral & Vice Chief of Naval Operations
  36. Modern-day Mary Celeste – the Mystery of Tanker Galuh Pusaka in the South China Sea
  37. The Dazzle Ships, Then and Now
  38. USS Slater Dazzles as She Returns to Albany

June 2014

  1. Mermaid Monday — Professional Mermaids, the World by the Tail!
  2. International Moth Racing — Foiling is Not Just for the America’s Cup
  3. Return of Migaloo, the White Humpback — Concerns Over Skin Cancer
  4. Humpback Whales off New York Harbor
  5. Update: A Shipwrecked Beer Reborn — Åland Brewery Recreates 170-year-old beer
  6. Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Returns Home to New Bedford
  7. The Day of the Seafarer, an Invisible Industry & No, Those are Not Imperial Walkers!
  8. Climbing to the Royal Yard on the Whaleship Charles W. Morgan
  9. Video for a Monday Morning: M/V Polar Bear Fire
  10. Celebrating Cecily Fox Smith — Poet of the Last Days of Sail
  11. Summer Sailstice & the Celebration of Sailing
  12. Summer Camp Aboard the Delaware Oyster Schooner AJ Meerwald
  13. Liberty Challenge Outrigger Regatta, New York Harbor, June 21
  14. Update: Schooner Spirit of South Carolina to Stay in Charleston
  15. New Australian Shark Cull Gets Green Light — Despite Complete Failure Last Time
  16. Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to be Vastly Expanded
  17. The Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, June 21st & 22nd
  18. Dolphins as Toolmakers — Spongers vs Non-Spongers
  19. Charles W. Morgan — 360 and Sea Trials
  20. Looking Back at HMS Bounty, the First Time She Nearly Sank off the Carolinas
  21. World War I in Photos: The War at Sea
  22. North River Historic Ship Festival June 20 – June 24
  23. Jonathan Atkin’s Hero Project on Display on Historic Lighthouse Tender Lilac
  24. Has a 19 Year Old Figured Out How to Clean the Pacific Garbage Patch?
  25. The Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Under Sail for the First Time in Almost a Century
  26. The Return of Schooner Lettie G. Howard
  27. Update: What Ate the Great White Shark?
  28. Remembering Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Higgins Boat on D-Day
  29. USS Constitution to Get Underway to Commemorate the D-Day & Midway
  30. Will the Real Gallus Mag, or Meg, Stand Up? No Biting, Please
  31. Update: Theories in $10 Million Yacht Capsize
  32. Plastic is the Problem. Are Shrimp Shells the Answer?
  33. Playing the East River Piano Under the Brooklyn Bridge

May 2014

  1. Alaric Bond’s The Torrid Zone — A Review
  2. Gods Mortals and Protectors — Figureheads at Mystic Seaport
  3. Japanese Tanker Shoko Maru Explodes and Burns, One Missing, Seven Injured
  4. Friendly Floatees — What 29,000 Yellow Ducks, Red Beavers, Blue Turtles and Green Frogs Tell Us About Ocean Dumping
  5. Big Rubber Duck Bound for Tallships Festival LA 2014
  6. Remembering the Brig Unicorn
  7. After a Brutal Winter, a Late Season for “Floaters”
  8. Update: Cheeki Rafiki Hull Found, No Sign of Missing Sailors, Coast Guard Ends Search
  9. Good News — State of Pennsylvania Commits $4.8 Million to Overhaul Brig Niagara
  10. Bad News — Bank to Auction Schooner Spirit of South Carolina
  11. 90′ Yacht Sinks at Launch
  12. Update: Search for Cheeki Rafiki Continues
  13. Sailing in Sewage — Olympic Sailors in Guanabara Bay at Rio de Janeiro
  14. Yacht Cheeki Rafiki Feared Lost, Four UK Sailors Missing, Controversy as Coast Guard Calls Off Search
  15. Prepping for the Panama Canal Expansion — New York Raising a Bridge and New Container Cranes
  16. Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan on the Move — Shifts to New London to Load Ballast
  17. Wreck of Steamer Planter Found On South Carolina Coast — Commanded by Robert Smalls
  18. Update: SS Port Nicholson — No Platinum So Far
  19. The Navy Goes NeRD – the New Navy E-Reader
  20. In Search of Columbus’ Flagship Santa Maria
  21. Belated Happy Mother’s Day to Orca J2, aka Granny, 103 Years Old
  22. Don’t Lean on the Running Rigging
  23. Women Serving on Submarines — US & Royal Navies & Soon the French
  24. Rare Goblin Shark Caught (and Released) Off Florida
  25. Schooner Fiddler’s Dream Donated to Kitsap Maritime Heritage Foundation
  26. Hughie Jones in Concert at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor
  27. Farley Mowat — Writer & Sailor
  28. Two Dead Whales in Less Than a Month in New York Harbor
  29. Poveglia, the World’s Most Haunted Island for Sale
  30. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry — Nearing Completion & July 5th Gala
  31. Dead Whale Found Floating in New York Harbor’s Upper Bay
  32. Norwegian Breakaway Delayed Docking in NY – Pod Problems, Currents & Reports of Chaos
  33. The Sewol Tragedy — Stability , Loading and Roll Period
  34. Worrisome Decrease in Baby Lobsters in the Gulf of Maine — Is the Boom Ending?
  35. Was the Lusitania Carrying Munitions in 1915? Newly Released Documents Raise Questions
  36. Has the Blue Whale Exploded Yet?

April 2014

  1. Home Ground, a Short Film by James Aiken — Sailing and Kayaking Greenland
  2. Getting It Up! The Fascinating World of Marine Salvage — Working Harbor Committee, May 6th
  3. USNS Comet “The Mother of All Ro-Ros” Available for Donation
  4. Spring Revival at the South Street Seaport Museum on the Street of Ships
  5. The Future of Ship Fuel — Oil, LNG, Water or Wind?
  6. Mystery of the Bio-Duck — Antarctic Minke Whale Quackers
  7. The Sewol Tragedy: Death Toll Rising, Possible Overloading
  8. Is That Nessie on Apple Maps? Sorry, But No.
  9. Earth Day on a Misnamed Planet– First Climate Change Refugees & Planning for Climate Change War
  10. Are Passenger Ro-Ros Inherently Unsafe? The Sewol Tragedy & Past Passenger/Ro-Ro Disasters
  11. An Easter Sailing Video — Are Those My Peeps ?
  12. South Street Seaport Spring Revival at Pier 16 on April 26th
  13. Saving the Gloucester Gillnetter Phyllis A.
  14. Dead Fin Whale Arrives in New York Harbor on Bow of Container Ship
  15. South Korean Ferry Tragedy — Close to 300 Missing as Ferry Sewol Sinks
  16. Blood Moon Eclipse Lights the Sky
  17. From the “Hole-in-the-Wall” to the Bridge Café — Gallus Mag to Hurricane Sandy
  18. Lifejackets for Life — PFD PSA from New Zealand
  19. Burial at Sea in a Bed-Sheet? Really?
  20. German Fisherman Finds ‘World’s Oldest Message In A Bottle’
  21. Navy LCS Debacle Continues — Slow Motion Shipwreck
  22. Update: Captain Error and Poor Bridge Design Caused Seastreak Wall Street Ferry Collision
  23. The Storm over ‘Rebel Heart’ — Blame the Parents, Envy Them? or Both?
  24. An American Treasure — Fireboat John J. Harvey Returns to Hudson Pier 66
  25. Drydocking USS Slater, Last WWII Destroyer Escort Afloat
  26. Pararescuers & USS Vandergriff Rescue Sick One Year Old on Yacht Rebel Heart
  27. Bluenose II — No Way to Restore a Schooner
  28. Rare Total Lunar Eclipse Tetrad Beginning This Month Across US
  29. Cruiser Olympia Staying in Philadelphia
  30. Aquatic April Fool’s — Gulf Coast Manaphin
  31. Clipper Round the World Race — Dramatic Man-Overboard Rescue

March 2014

  1. International Court of Justice Ends Japanese Antarctic Whaling
  2. Hobie Alter — Legendary Surfing and Sailing Innovator
  3. Sponges — Mother of Us All?
  4. Booze, Balconies and Falling Overboard from Cruise Ships
  5. Visiting Underwater Volcano Kick’em Jenny
  6. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry — “Building a War of 1812 Warship”
  7. Mock Iranian Carrier Claimed to Be Set for Movie About Downing of Iran Air Flight 655
  8. Finding Flight MH370 — Inmarsat, Haystacks, Satellites and Sextants
  9. Twenty Five Years Ago Today, Exxon Valdez Grounded in Prince Edward Sound
  10. Sylvia Earle — LEGO Aquanaut
  11. Iran’s Mysterious Fake Aircraft Carrier Barge
  12. Mapping 1,200 Years of Scottish Shipwrecks
  13. Mad as a Lighthouse Keeper — Not the Solitude, but the Mercury
  14. HMS Victory Paint-Scheme a “20th Century Invention”?
  15. Sailing on the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry this Fall
  16. Navy SEALs Seize the Morning Glory — the Mystery Tanker and the Struggle to Control Libyan Oil
  17. Kite Foiling — I Believe I Can Fly
  18. USS Texas at 100 Years Old — A Proud History & an Uncertain Future
  19. LCS USS Coronado Stops for Passing Whales
  20. Flashback: Happy Pi Day (3.14) and a Toast to Hakudo Maru
  21. Sail Training on the Lady Washington
  22. Coming Soon from Alaric Bond — The Torrid Zone
  23. Terrible Tilly and Two Other Killer Lighthouses
  24. The Captain Rose House of 1773 & Kit Burns Rat Pit of 1870
  25. Visualizing Big Ships — Queen Mary 2, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller & Seawise Giant
  26. “Hell Around the Horn” on the Working Harbor Committee Blog
  27. Queen Mary 2 at 10 Years Old
  28. Flying on Ice — Iceboating on the Frozen Hudson River
  29. Russia Scuttles Destroyer Ochakov, Blocking Ukrainian Navy Ships in Donuzlav Lake, Western Crimea
  30. The Vikings, the Rus’ & Kiev — the Entangled History of Russia and Ukraine
  31. Russian Navy Ultimatum in Crimea — Claims & Counter-Claims
  32. Vows: Can a Captain Marry Us?
  33. Update: Ukrainian Flagship Hetman Sahaidachny Sighted Off Crete, Defection Reports Denied
  34. Two Officers Die, Seven Sailors Injured in Fire on Indian Submarine Sindhuratna

February 2014

  1. M5 and the Modern Clipper Ships of the Super-Rich
  2. A Fish on Wheels
  3. Sting’s ‘The Last Ship’ — A Tribute to a Shipyard and a Way of Life
  4. Henry Brothers Arrive in Florida After 6,500 Km Kayak Expedition from Brazil
  5. Video for a Monday Morning — Extreme Sailing “Prepare to Repel Boarders!”
  6. Container Loaded with One Million Cigarettes Washes Ashore On Devon Coast
  7. The True Story of the Mary Celeste
  8. Archimedes’ Burning Mirrors & the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Facility
  9. The Navy’s Newest Laser Weapons on USS Ponce, One of its Oldest Ships
  10. Drug Overdoses Suspected in Deaths of Ex-Navy SEALs on Maersk Alabama
  11. Happy Birthday, Joshua Slocum
  12. Is Ragnarök, the Viking Apocalypse on Saturday? Really?
  13. Two Security Guards, ex-Navy SEALs, Found Dead on Maersk Alabama
  14. Svendborg Maersk Update: 520 Containers Lost in Bay of Biscay
  15. Salt and Cabotage — Is the Jones Act Being Blamed for Poor Planning?
  16. Bad Day on the Bay of Biscay — Svendborg Maersk Looses 200-300 Containers
  17. Happy President’s Day – Lincoln’s Camel
  18. No Bids for Schooner Nathaniel Bowditch; Schooner Timberwind Leaving Rockport
  19. Great Lakes Ice Nearing Record
  20. Wave Kills Passenger on MS Marco Polo While Valentine’s Day Storm Slams UK
  21. The Loch Ness Monster Has Gone Missing!
  22. Happy Valentine’s Day from the Crew of HMS Daring
  23. Building New York With Ships’ Ballast — Cobblestones, Blitz Bricks & Bristol Basin
  24. Was Albert Einstein a Lousy Sailor ?
  25. The Oldest Indian Ocean Shipwreck and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
  26. NTSB: “Captain’s Reckless Decision to Sail” Led to Bounty Sinking
  27. Strong Pacific Trade Winds Slowing Warming
  28. Sleeping Beauty — Britain’s WWII Motorized Submersible Canoe
  29. Why Didn’t José Salvador Alvarenga Die of Scurvy in 13 Months at Sea?
  30. Melville’s Billy Budd – From Unfinished Manuscript, to Novella, to Broadway Play, to Opera, & Film
  31. Desperate Voyagers — Three Dead, Two Missing off Florida; Italy Rescues 1,100 Migrants in Med
  32. No, Noah’s Ark Was Not Round (& No Cannibal Rats)
  33. USS “Forest Fire” on Her Way to the Flames of the Cutting Torches
  34. MV Luno Breaks in Two on Breakwater near Bayonne, France
  35. The Mystery of José Salvador Alvarenga & His 13 Months Adrift at Sea
  36. Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Arrives Home in Adelaide
  37. “It takes guts to dream” – Three-Time Olympian Sailor – Nikola Girke
  38. Black Sails, A Treasure Island Prequel with Dirt, Violence, & Sex — A Review
  39. Harriett Tubman and the Great Combahee Ferry Raid
  40. Man Drifts onto Ebon Atoll — Claims to Have Survived 16 Months at Sea

January 2014

  1. Caribbean Princess Cruise Cut Short — Dense Fog or Norovirus?
  2. The Ships of the Super Bowl — Norwegian Getaway, Cornucopia Majesty, & the Intrepid
  3. RCCL’s Explorer of the Seas Sets New Record for Contagion with Almost 700 Ill
  4. The Left Coast Lifter Arrives in New York to Build the New Tappan Zee Bridge
  5. Fleet : the Complete Collection by Andrew D. Thaler, a Review by Joe Follansbee
  6. Pete Seeger, the Hudson River and the Sloop Clearwater
  7. Norovirus on RCCL Explorer of the Seas — Worse than Cannibal Rats
  8. Humanitarian Vessel Vega Needs a Mast!
  9. “Gasparilla Pirate Fest” and the Fictitious Pirate, Jose Gaspar
  10. A Quarter of Shark & Ray Species on the Verge of Extinction
  11. The Ghost Ship, the Irish Coast Guard, Chris Reynolds and Uri Geller
  12. British Maritime & Coast Guard Agency Statement on the “Ghost Ship” Lyubov Orlova
  13. Clipper Ship City of Adelaide — Close to Home but Short on Cash
  14. Lyubov Orlova, Ghost Ship Crewed by Cannibal Rats Drifting Toward the UK — Phony Hysteria on a Slow News Day?
  15. Cindy Vallar’s Review of Joan Druett’s Judas Island and the Promise of Gold Trilogy
  16. Book Review Wednesday — New From V.E. Ulett, Blackwell’s Paradise
  17. Day of the Dolphin : Part 1 — Dolphins Steal the Show At Surfing Competition
  18. Day of the Dolphin : Part 2 — Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan’s Taiji Cove
  19. Sailor Roger Pratt Killed in St. Lucia
  20. Spiraling Plankton Eddies Off the Australian Coast
  21. No, — Grog Dates to 1740, Not 3,000 Years to Ancient Norway!
  22. Were Hobbit’s Ancestors Ancient Sailors?
  23. Tough Times for Tugs – Three Recent Casualties
  24. Piracy Worldwide Drops to Six Year Low, Somali Piracy Lowest Since 2004
  25. New York City — Once The City of Ships
  26. Update: Paris Abandons Solo Circumnavigation Attempt After Rig Problems
  27. Chasing Shackleton — Historical Reenactment Vs Reality TV
  28. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry to Set Sail In 2014 — Adventure at Sea Berths Available
  29. Archimedes “Burning Mirrors” and London’s “Walkie Scorchie”
  30. Monitor Lab at Mariner’s Museum Shut By Lack of Fed Funds
  31. Gordon Bok: Hearth and Fire
  32. Hercules — A Winter Storm That Lived Up to Its Name
  33. Strange Shaggy Dog Story — Dog Found in Tampa Bay Reported Missing Two Years Ago
  34. Wind Shift Frees Cruise Ship and Icebreaker Trapped in Antarctic Ice
  35. Ships at a Distance
  36. When the Harbor Froze in New York
  37. Never Tailgate a Cutter — Mesabi Miner Runs into Cutter Hollyhock
  38. Saildrone Sails the Pacific
  39. USCGC Polar Star Heading to Rescue Ice-bound Ships
  40. A Speck in the Sea — the Deadly Business of Commercial Fishing
  41. A Sad Pilgrimage to the New York Boat Show
  42. Aurora Australis Standing By As Snow Dragon May Now Be Stuck in Ice
  43. The Defecating Dog as Compass
  44. Passengers Airlifted from Icebound MV Akademik Shokalskiy
  45. Giant Yellow Duck Explodes in Taiwan
  46. Happy New Year — New Moons & Super Moons!
  47. New Year Onboard the MV Akademik Shokalskiy – Stuck in Antarctic Ice

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