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December 2020

  1. The North Pole — Where Time & Direction Have No Meaning
  2. SOAR Oyster Buyback Reseeding Reefs
  3. New Blue Whale Population in Indian Ocean Identified by Unique Song
  4. New Zealand’s Astrolabe Reef Reclaiming the Rena — 2020 Shipwreck Survey
  5. Update: Golden Ray Salvage, Cutting Begins on Stern Section
  6. Underwater Christmas Trees
  7. Sting — Christmas At Sea (Live from Durham Cathedral)
  8. Chicago’s Christmas Tree Ship in the Year of the Pandemic
  9. Update: Massive Iceberg Threatening South Georgia Island Now Breaking Up
  10. The Long Goodbye of the HMS Hermes/INS Viraat
  11. Halcyon Days in a Pandemic Year
  12. WWI Anti-Submarine Warfare with Seagulls, Sacks and Hammers
  13. The Great Solstice Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
  14. Australian Beaches — Sea Foam, Sea Snakes and a Lost Dog
  15. Vendee Globe: Oscar and the Unidentified Floating Objects
  16. Rotor Sails – Fixed, Rolling and Tilting
  17. Steel Cut for National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) at Philly Shipyard
  18. eConowind Sail Assist Successfully Tested on Container Barge
  19. Voyage of the Orphan Boys in the Vaccine Ship of 1803
  20. A Video for a Pandemic Saturday : Jolie Brise – the Boat That Changed Tom Cunliffe’s Life
  21. MOL Signs Deal For New Wind Challenger Sail Assisted Collier
  22. Captain Amy Bauernschmidt Picked as First Woman to Command a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
  23. Humpback Whale in New York’s Inner Harbor
  24. What Happened on the Container Ship ONE Apus? A Glimpse at Parametric Rolling
  25. Radio Broadcasts Reporting Attack on Pearl Harbor 79 Years Ago Today
  26. Container Ship ONE Apus Sets Record for Boxes Lost Over the Side at Over 1,900
  27. Vendee Globe: Sam Davies “Out of the Game” With Plans to Keep Sailing
  28. UFOs and the Vendee Globe — Plus ça Change, Plus C’est la Meme Chose
  29. Vendee Globe: Sam Davies’ and Sébastien Simon’s Boats Damaged by UFOs
  30. USS Bonhomme Richard to Be Scrapped, a Glimpse Inside the Charred Wreckage
  31. Vendee Globe: Le Cam Rescues Escoffier After Boat Breaks in Half in Roaring Forties

November 2020

  1. Dredging May Free the Replica “Lost Colony” Ship Elizabeth II
  2. Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss Out of Vendee Globe Race
  3. Maxi Edmond de Rothschild Attempt at Jules Verne Trophy Interrupted by UFO
  4. Foiling Maxi-Trimarans Race Head to Head for Jules Verne Trophy
  5. Thanksgiving Repost — Whaling Ships, Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary’s Lamb & a Liberty Ship
  6. VB-10,000 “Golden Arches” Making Progress in First Cut in Golden Ray
  7. Sea the City Introducing Hot Tub Boat Tours to New York Harbor
  8. Vendee Globe — Alex Thomson Slows Down to Make Repairs
  9. Glasgow’s Tall Ship Glenlee
  10. Electric Narco-Sub Seized in Riverbank Boatyard in Columbia
  11. Modern Commuter Ferry Pioneer Arthur Imperatore Dies at 95
  12. Pride’s Capt. Jan Miles and “Coffee with the Captain”
  13. Fisherman’s Friends — Pandemic Movie Review
  14. Cruise Lines Ready to Restart with Trial Cruises, First Attempt Sees Shipboard Outbreak
  15. The Pig War of 1859
  16. Spanish Navy To Build New Rescue Ship for Submarines, Planes & Shipwrecks
  17. Tristan da Cunha Creates Largest Marine Sanctuary in the Atlantic
  18. Vendee Globe Race 2020-2021 : Largest Fleet, More Female Skippers, and a Competing Couple
  19. Oak Trees, Wine, Whiskey, & the French Navy
  20. On Armistice Day, the German Sailors’ Mutinies That Brought Down the Kaiser
  21. First Black Female Naval Academy Brigade Commander and First Navy Fighter Pilot
  22. The Weird, Harmless & Occasionally Very Dangerous Ocean Sunfish
  23. Constitution Grove — the Navy’s White Oak Forest on a High Tech Base
  24. The Caspian Sea Monster — Long Abandoned Lun Ekranoplan Moved to Future Museum
  25. Kayakers Get Between Lunge Feeding Humpback Whale & Lunch
  26. World’s Biggest Iceberg on Collision Course with South Georgia
  27. American Magic, Patriot : Pedal Down
  28. Definitely a Fluke — Whale’s Tail Saves Train from Plunge Off Tracks
  29. Swordfish Stabbing Sharks and the Occasional Diver
  30. Socially Distanced Office in New York’s East River

October 2020

  1. The Legend of the Gray Man of Pawley’s Island
  2. The Launching of the Demologos, First Steam Powered Warship
  3. 60 of 92 Passengers Test Positive for Covid-19 After Folk Music Cruise on Danube
  4. Golden Arches, VB-10,000 Heavy-Lift Arrives to Begin Scrapping Golden Ray
  5. Happy Birthday to Galveston’s Tall Ship Elissa
  6. Collision With Container Ship Cuts Greek Minesweeper Kallisto in Half
  7. Special Forces End Tanker “Hijacking” by Stowaways Off Isle of Wight
  8. Borat on a Barge Appears in New York, London and Toronto
  9. The Wide Awakes Navy “Boats the Vote” on Eve of Early Voting
  10. The Staten Island Quarantine War of 1858
  11. USS Stout — Pandemic Wear and Tear After 215 Days at Sea
  12. Celebrating Trafalgar Day and the Anniversary of the Launching of “Old Ironsides”
  13. US Coast Guard Testing Unmanned Vessels Off Hawaii
  14. Rescue Underway on Remote South Atlantic Gough Island
  15. Farewell to the Aurora Australis, AKA Orange Roughy
  16. Over-Budget, Long Delayed and Scandal Ridden, Venice’s MOSE Works in First Real Test
  17. 2020 Virtual Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race
  18. Update: Sedov Sails an Ice Free Northern Sea Route
  19. Tallboy Bomb from 1945 Attack on German Cruiser Lützow Detonated in Polish Canal
  20. Rare Triple Humpback Whale Breach in Monterey Bay
  21. Happy Birthday US Navy, Not to be Confused With Navy Day or the Founding of the Navy
  22. The Viking Longship at the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893
  23. Bukken-Bruse — From Ferry to “Starchitect” Family Houseboat
  24. Zombie Worms and Whale Bones
  25. White House Hotspot — Admiral, General, and Aides Test Positive for Covid-19
  26. Bouchard Files for Bankruptcy, Looking Back at Captain Fred and the Attack on Black Tom
  27. On the Hip — Working Harbor Committee Virtual Gala on October 20th
  28. Some See Irony in Pandemic During Mayflower Anniversary
  29. USS Cobia — Wisconsin Maritime Museum’s Sub BnB
  30. Jeanne Baret, the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
  31. Review: My Octopus Teacher, on Netflix
  32. Spain Seizes 30 Tonnes of Hashish in 4 Sailboats
  33. Politics Over Safety? White House Overrules C.D.C. on Cruise Ship Ban

September 2020

  1. Vanport, Liberty Ships, and Jim Crow Shipyards
  2. New From Old Salt Press — Angel’s Share: A Story from the World of The Astreya Trilogy
  3. New From Old Salt Press — Lone Escort by Alaric Bond (The Fighting Sail Series Book 13)
  4. The River Thames 1963 & the London Gateway — Glimpses of a Cargo Revolution
  5. SS Ayrfield — From Wreck to Mangrove Forest
  6. Were Polynesian Sailors the Ancestors of Native Americans?
  7. Spain Bans Smaller Sailboats Following Damage From Orca Encounters
  8. Russian Navy Corvette Collides with Refrigerated Ship in Fog Near Entrance to Baltic Sea
  9. Around 270 Pilot Whales Stranded on Sandbar on West Coast of Tasmania
  10. Lake George Rescue — The Kayaker and the Priests on a Floating Tiki Bar
  11. Old Three Toes — The Giant Penguin of Clearwater Beach, Florida
  12. Scientists Baffled by Orcas Ramming Sailboats, Grabbing Rudders
  13. Lia Ditton Breaks Solo Ocean Rowing Record to Hawaii
  14. William Main Dorflinger Virtual Shanty Sing — Sunday, September 20th
  15. Autonomous Mayflower, Technological Breakthrough or Hazard to Navigation?
  16. Ice Apocalypse — Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers Collapse Accelerating
  17. CMA CGM Brazil, Largest Container Ship to Call on US East Coast
  18. Orca That Carried Dead Calf Gives Birth Again
  19. Oceanbird, Proposed Sailing Car Carrier, Cuts Emissions by 90%
  20. All Available Boats — Remembering the Amazing Manhattan Boatlift of 9/11
  21. Restored Windjammer Peking Returns to Hamburg
  22. Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm — Remembering the Deadly 1900 Galveston Hurricane
  23. Crisis on Maersk Etienne Escalates — Three Migrants Jump Overboard
  24. QAnon Conspiracy: Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic?
  25. Navy Captain Mike Desmond Sets Unofficial Record for Time at Sea
  26. Update: Second Survivor Rescued After Livestock Carrier Capsizes in Typhoon
  27. The AC75 | Designed to Fly
  28. East & West Coast Online Chantey Sings — NY’s South Street Seaport & SF’s Hyde Street Pier
  29. Livestock Carrier Capsizes Off Japan in Typhoon Msysak, One Survivor Rescued
  30. Wakashio Oil Spill Off Mauritius Turns Deadly As Tug Sinks — 3 Dead, 1 Missing
  31. SINKEX at RIMPAC, Goodbye to USS Durham

August 2020

  1. Three Year Old Swept Out to Sea on a Unicorn, Rescued by Ferry
  2. Superyacht Wheels — the Other Jerry Falwell Scandal
  3. Banksy’s Rescue Boat Calls for Help
  4. Photos of Bow of Bulker Wakashio Being Scuttled Off Mauritius
  5. Did an Arsonist Torch the USS Bonhomme Richard?
  6. Fire on Coast Guard Cutter Healy Disables Half of US Icebreaker Fleet
  7. Blount Small Ship Adventures Done in By Pandemic
  8. Drone Video of Mayflower II Returning to Plymouth
  9. Back to Back Hurricanes Poised to Hit the Gulf of Mexico
  10. Icebreaker Makes Unplanned Open-Water Arctic Detour
  11. Steve Bannon Arrested on Chinese Billionaire’s Yacht, Lady May
  12. Sedov Sets Off On Trans-Arctic Voyage
  13. Update: MV Wakashio — Ship Breaks Up, Cleanup Continues, Bow Under Tow, & Captain Arrested
  14. Marvin Creamer, Dies at 104, Circumnavigated Without Navigational Instruments
  15. Update: Historic Tanker Mary A. Whalen’s New/Old Engine Arrives in Brooklyn
  16. Belugas Little White and Little Grey Closer to Release Into Open Water Sanctuary
  17. Comments/Replies are Back, & New Mobile Friendly Format
  18. Flattop with a Deckload of History Arrives at Pearl Harbor
  19. Wakashio Grounding — the Birthday Party & the Search for Wi-Fi
  20. Sailing Cargo Ship Kwai Hauls a Record 170 Tons of Plastic & Ghost Nets From Pacific
  21. Capesize Bulker MV Wakashio Aground on Mauritius Reef, May Break Up
  22. HMS Victory Figuratively Afloat in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
  23. A Furious Sky, the Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes — A Review
  24. Beach SOS Results in Rescue on Tiny Micronesian island
  25. USS Ling Abandoned, Flooded, Stuck in the Mud
  26. NY Ship Pilot Dies, Second Fatal Fall From Boarding Ladder in Less than a Year
  27. From 2014: MV Rhosus – Crew Held Hostage on Floating Bomb
  28. Massive Explosion in the Port of Beirut, Echoes of Texas City
  29. Happy 230th Birthday US Coast Guard!
  30. Iran Accidentally Sinks Fake Aircraft Carrier
  31. Ruby Princess Outbreak — Confused Test Results Allowed the Virus to Disembark
  32. Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicle Sinks — 1 Dead, 8 Missing

July 2020

  1. First “Mega” Cruise Ships Go to Scrap Yard
  2. Ecuadorian Navy Raises Alarm Over Fleet of Chinese Fishing Vessels Near Galápagos
  3. NYC Woman Dies in Maine’s First Fatal Shark Attack
  4. With Pandemic Spiking, Hong Kong Restricts Crew Changes
  5. Remembering Larry Pardey, 1938 — 2020
  6. National Museum of the Royal Navy ‘Saved from Insolvency’ Due to Virus Lockdown
  7. Update: Golden Ray Removal Delayed & Salvage Animation
  8. First North American to Circumnavigate Solo, Non-stop, Using Only Celestial Navigation
  9. Greyhound, Tom Hanks Fights the Battle of the Atlantic
  10. Drone Footage of Mayflower II Leaving Mystic Seaport
  11. UK Nuclear Submarine in Near Collision with Passenger Ferry
  12. Update: Mayflower II Moves From Mystic to New London For Sea Trials
  13. Virtual Whale Watching with American Princess Off New York Harbor
  14. Update: Facing Hurricanes, Removal of Car Carrier Golden Ray Delayed by Coronavirus
  15. Pandemic Update: Most of Maine’s Windjammers Not Sailing in 2020
  16. Will COVID-19 Destroy the Traditional Netherlands Sailing Fleet?
  17. Coast Guard Sexual Harassment — Pioneering Rescue Swimmer Sarah Faulkner Speaks Out
  18. Dockside Ship Fires, From the Normandie to the USS Bonhomme Richard
  19. Fire Rages on Amphibious Assault Ship USS Bonhomme Richard, Close to 60 Injured
  20. New USCG Cutter to be Named for Elizebeth S. Friedman, Pioneering Code Breaker
  21. Time-Lapse of Comet Neowise
  22. DNA Suggests Ancient Voyagers Sailed Between Polynesia and South America
  23. Searching for Type D — A New Species of Killer Whale?
  24. Matthew Fontaine Maury — From Hero, to Traitor, to “Lost Cause” Statue
  25. Row of Life — Celebrating the Remarkable Angela Madsen
  26. Versabar’s VB-10,000, Golden Arches, Readies to Lift Golden Ray
  27. Sandy Ground, Second New Staten Island Ferry Launched at Eastern Shipbuilding
  28. Close Encounters With Humpback Whales Off the Jersey Shore
  29. South Street Seaport Hosts an Afternoon of Online Sea Chanteys, Sunday, July 5, 202
  30. Keel Laying for Interlake’s Mark W. Barker, First US Flag Laker in 35 Years
  31. Update: Maine Windjammers Get OK to Sail, With Strict Requirements

June 2020

  1. Beluga Whale Appears Off San Diego, Thousands of Miles From Home Waters
  2. Solo Sailor’s 85 Day Voyage Across Atlantic to Reunite with Family in Pandemic
  3. Maine Windjammers Face Uncertain Season in Pandemic
  4. Update: Golden Horizon, ex-Flying Clipper, World’s Largest Sailing Ship, to Sail from UK Next Year
  5. Container Ship Maersk Idaho Held Off Virginia Beach After Crew Test Positive for COVID-19
  6. Covid-19 Fears & the Alaskan Salmon Season in Bristol Bay
  7. Sahara Dust Plume May Temporarily Damp Down Atlantic Hurricanes
  8. Will the Cruise Industry Survive the Pandemic Headwinds?
  9. Cruise Lines Delay US Port Restart Again, Until at Least September 15th
  10. Approaching the 50th Anniversay of the Exploding Whale — Exploding Whale Park
  11. Navy Refuses to Reinstate Captain Crozier, Despite Earlier Recommendation
  12. Happy Juneteenth! When Emancipation Arrived by Steamship, 155 Years Ago Today
  13. Clearwater’s 2020 Virtual Great Hudson River Revival: An Epic Stream to Save the River
  14. Eighty Years Ago Today — Sinking of the HMT Lancastria, the Worst Maritime Disaster in British History
  15. USS Gerald R. Ford — Almost a Carrier or Still a Berthing Barge?
  16. Remembering the General Slocum Disaster of June 15, 1904
  17. After Three Years, USS Fitzgerald Returns to Service
  18. Trailer ‘The Restoration of Centaur’ — Insights on Horse Dung and Coal Tar
  19. Drone Footage Captures Biggest Gathering of Sea Turtles Ever Caught on Camera
  20. Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ Will Be Large This Summer, But Maybe Smaller than Last Year
  21. A Drone Visit to Gradually Reopening Mystic Seaport Museum
  22. First American Woman to Walk in Space Also First Woman to Visit the Challenger Deep
  23. Solo-Sailor Jeanne Socrates Honored in Victoria
  24. On World Ocean Day, Attack on Atlantic Ocean Marine Sanctuary
  25. Ship Shooter Jonathan Atkin’s Maritime Love Affair From (Mostly) Above
  26. GPS Spoofing Mystery — Crop Circles & Ghost Ships
  27. Affirmation of “Respect, Dignity and Inclusion” From US Navy Sixth Fleet Leadership
  28. TBT — Panoramic and Audio Tour of USS Pampanito
  29. How Ice Cream Replaced Booze in the US Navy
  30. Factory Trawler American Dynasty Hit Hard by COVID-19
  31. Two Hundred and Seven Years Ago Today — “Don’t Give Up the Ship”

May 2020

  1. Bark Europa — An Unexpected 10,000 Mile Voyage Home From the End of the World
  2. Time Bomb in the Thames — Removing the Masts from the SS Richard Montgomery
  3. Evolution of the “Narco-sub” — Semi-Submersibles, Go-Fast LPVs and VSVs
  4. TBT — World War II Combat Footage: Sinking of the Bismarck
  5. Surgical Masks Wash Ashore In Australia After APL Europe Loses At Least 40 Boxes
  6. 80 Years Ago — Operation Dynamo, the Evacuation of Dunkirk
  7. Fleet Week NYC Flashback –Parade of Ships 2011
  8. San Francisco Firefighters Save Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien From Massive Wharf Fire
  9. Very Large Tankers Sailing on Wind and Bubbles of Air
  10. On National Maritime Day — the “Steamship” & the Forgotten Anchor of Corlear’s Hook
  11. New Coronavirus Outbreak on Navy Oiler — One Dead, Over 50 Sick
  12. Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Shark Cam
  13. More Than 100,000 Crew Still Trapped Aboard Cruise Ships
  14. Inspector Clouseau, the Pink Manta Ray of the Great Barrier Reef
  15. Update: On USS Theodore Roosevelt, Number of Sailors Positive Twice For Coronavirus Rises to 13
  16. On Carrier Roosevelt, Five Sailors Test Positive for Virus a Second Time
  17. Fleet of Cruise Ships Flees Typhoon Battering the Philippines
  18. The Incredible Journey of Belugas Little White and Little Grey
  19. Scrambling to Save an Engine for the Historic Tanker Mary A. Whalen
  20. Wreck of USS Nevada, the Ship Too Tough to Die, Found Off Oahu
  21. Tens of Thousands of Crew Still Stranded As Cruise Lines Plan Reopening
  22. Sailors’ Tattoos on Mother’s Day
  23. Virtual Tour of Schooner Zodiac
  24. Royal Navy Celebrates 75th Anniversary of VE Day
  25. Owner of “Ghost Ship” MV Alta Ghosts, Leaving Ireland the Bill
  26. 5,000 Tonne Capacity Offshore Crane Collapses During Load Tests
  27. “Freakishly Warm” Gulf Waters May Contribute to Severe Spring Weather & Hurricanes
  28. Ships Sunk in “Exercise Tiger” Disaster Finally Protected
  29. Capturing Cape Hatteras – A Night Under The Stars Of The Outer Banks
  30. Stuck on a Sailboat During the Pandemic — US Virgin Islands Gets Crowded
  31. Virtual Shanty/Chantey Sing, Part 2 — Singalong with the Sheringham Shantymen

April 2020

  1. Virtual Shanty/Chantey Sing, Part 1 — South Street Seaport
  2. USS Kidd Diverts to San Diego with Coronavirus Outbreak, Over A Quarter Test Positive
  3. Bioluminescent Dolphins in the Pacific
  4. 60 Years Ago, USS Triton Circumnavigated the Globe Submerged
  5. In the Time of COVID-19, the Unexpected Voyage of the Wylde Swan
  6. Navy Recommends Reinstating Fired Roosevelt Captain
  7. USNS Comfort Leaving New York — the Limitations of Hospital Ships
  8. Red Tide, Blue Waves
  9. USS Roosevelt Update: Over 700 Infected, Sailors Test Positive Despite Isolation
  10. The Almost Carrier, USS America, Steams Toward South China Sea
  11. Juna, the Beluga, at the Wedding
  12. What USS Theodore Roosevelt & Iceland Reveal About Testing & the Virus
  13. Doolittle Raid on Japan, 78 Years Ago Today
  14. Clinton Pearson, Pioneer in Fiberglass Boat Building, Dies at 91
  15. Coronavirus Spreads on Carriers, Submarines and Hospital Ships
  16. Safely Visit the Ocean Pursuit Shipwreck – Milky Way Time Lapse
  17. First Sailor from USS Theodore Roosevelt Dies From Coronavirus
  18. CDC Modifies & Extends “No Sail Order” for All Cruise Ships
  19. Sailors Sewing Cloth Masks on US Aircraft Carriers, USS Roosevelt Infections Rise to 550
  20. Over 400 Sailors Test Positive For Coronavirus on USS Theodore Roosevelt
  21. Emergency Fundraiser for Developing World Seafarers
  22. Remembering Howard Slotnick (1930-2020)
  23. Penguin on “Field Trip” Meets Beluga Whales
  24. Update: Acting SECNAV Modly Wildly Out of Control, Resigns
  25. Menhaden — “the Most Important Fish in the Sea”
  26. The Virus — An Enemy The US Navy Is Not Prepared To Fight
  27. Venezuelan Navy Patrol Craft Rams Cruise Ship and Loses
  28. Sailors Cheer Carrier Captain Fired by Navy For Standing Up For Crew Health and Safety
  29. TBT — Ghost Ship, Sailing on Water, Wind, & Light
  30. Mystic Seaport Museum Closing, Lays Off 199 Employees

March 2020

  1. Brig Pilgrim Sinks at Dock in Dana Point, CA, Salvage Attempts Underway
  2. USNS Comfort Arrives in NYC & New Hospitals on the Harbor
  3. USNS Comfort Steams Toward NYC — Concerns About Covid-19 Screening
  4. USS Constitution Museum Goes Virtual
  5. Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt Diverted to Guam Due to Virus Outbreak
  6. Open Seas, Closed Borders — Crews Trapped by Covid-19
  7. USS Gerald R. Ford, Clogged Toilets and Overflowing Costs
  8. During the Lockdown, a Choice of Virtual Tours of USS Constitution
  9. No, Dolphins and Swans Have Not Returned to the Canals of Venice
  10. A Sunday Distraction — Windjammer Thrills Newsreel
  11. Tow-Rags, or How Sailors Cleaned Their Bums
  12. Blocked from Port, CMV Cruise Ships Transfer Passengers at Sea
  13. Hospital Ships USNS Mercy & USNS Comfort Deploying
  14. Cruise Ships Blocked from Ports Around the World Over Coronavirus Fears
  15. St. Patrick and the Pirates
  16. Cruise Ships and the Coronavirus — the Crews Pay the Price
  17. T.S Kennedy Returns to Mass. Maritime from Sea Term 2020!
  18. US Cruise Industry Shutting Down For at Least 30 Days
  19. Soviet G-5 Torpedo Boat Lost During the Siege of Sevastopol Recovered By Russian Navy
  20. Viking and Princess Temporarily Suspend Cruise Operations
  21. Review — Hellfire Corner by Alaric Bond, First of His Coastal Force Series
  22. SS United States Plans for Floating Hotel Moves Forward
  23. Will Coronavirus Cripple the Cruise Industry? State Department Warns Americans Off Cruises
  24. Update: Betelgeuse Getting Brighter — More Likely Dust Cloud than Supernova
  25. Update: Cruise Ship Grand Princess — 21 of 45 Test Positive for Coronavirus
  26. Eurythenes plasticus — Newly Discovered Deep Sea Amphipod Named After Plastic In Its Guts
  27. Déjà Vu — Cruise Ship Grand Princess Held Offshore For Coronavirus Testing
  28. The Monitor’s Dahlgren Guns, Frank Butts’ Boots and the Wailing Black Cat
  29. Climate Change Causing Faster Winds and Accelerating Currents
  30. Congratulations to Australian Bill Hatfield, 81, the Oldest, Non-Stop, Unassisted Circumnavigator
  31. HMS Erebus Artifacts Provide Glimpse into Franklin Expedition Sailors Lives

February 2020

  1. The US Navy’s 7th Fleet Self-Quarantine — No Port Calls for 14 days
  2. “Unprecedented” Number of Blue Whales Observed Off Southern Ocean South Georgia Island
  3. TBT– Frederick Douglass — “I Will Take to the Water”
  4. Archaeologists Discover 200 Ancient Roman Amphorae in Underwater Cave
  5. Grays Harbor Historical Seaport’s Hawaiian Chieftain Up For Sale
  6. Amazing Video of Humpback Whale Bubble-Net Feeding
  7. Song For A Sunday — Bob Wright’s Downing’s Oyster Bar
  8. Thomas Downing, From Son of Slaves to Oyster King of New York City
  9. Screening of “The Arctic Rose Mystery” at Shiplore in NYC on Monday, 2/24/20
  10. Betelgeuse, Navigational Star, May Explode, If It Hasn’t Already
  11. Remembering Robert Smalls – Slave, Pilot of the Planter, First Black Captain in the US Navy & Congressman
  12. The Long Strange Voyage of the “Ghost Ship” MV Alta
  13. Happy Presidents’ Day – Lincoln’s Improved Camel Patent
  14. Black History Month — David Debias, 8 Year Old Sailor on Old Ironsides
  15. Update: U.S. To Repatriate Most Americans on Quarantined Cruise Ship Diamond Princess
  16. Cruise Ship Contagions — From COVID-19 to Norovirus
  17. Navy Wants to Retire First Four, Still Almost New, Littoral Combat Ships
  18. Modern Flying Dutchman? Virus-Free MS Westerdam Turned Away by 5 Ports
  19. Quarantined Cruise Ship Diamond Princess — Coronavirus Cases Nearly Double
  20. Update: Cruise Ship Coronavirus — Diamond Princess Still Quarantined, World Dream Passegners Disembark
  21. Black History Month — William Tillman and the Privateer Jefferson Davis
  22. Ancient Skull May Be From Roman Admiral Pliny the Elder, Killed by Vesuvius Eruption
  23. Black History Month — Harriett Tubman & the Great Combahee Ferry Raid
  24. Two More Cruise Ships Quarantined with Coronavirus
  25. After 72 Years, Last Voyages of the MV Astoria, ex Stockholm?
  26. The Doomsday Glacier — the Thwaites Glacier Melting From Below
  27. Update: US Coast Guard Officer Sentenced To 13 Years For Plotting Mass Murder
  28. Remembering Jesse L. Brown, First African-American Naval Pilot

January 2020

  1. In the Absence, Academy Award Nominated Short Documentary on the MV Sewol Sinking
  2. 6,000 Held Aboard Costa Cruise Ship Over Coronavirus Concerns
  3. Albatrosses Tracking Illegal Fishing
  4. William P. Frye, First US Ship Sunk in WWI, 105 Years Ago Today
  5. Captain Zeb Tilton and the Schooner Alice S. Wentworth
  6. Grays Harbor Lady Washington & Hawaiian Chieftain: Columbia River Battle Sail
  7. Pinnace Virginia, Maine’s First Ship, Scheduled to Launch in June
  8. Scandies Rose and the Arctic Rose — Different Boats, Similar Tragedies
  9. “Ghost Fleets” — US & China Prepare Drones For Sea
  10. Spanish Billionaire Sentenced For Smuggling Picasso on His Superyacht
  11. Poseidon Principles — Big Banks Push For Greener Shipping
  12. On MLK Day, Navy Officially Names Newest Carrier USS Doris Miller
  13. School Ship TS Kennedy Departs for a Term at Sea
  14. Scottish MacLean Brothers Set Three Records Rowing the Atlantic in Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge
  15. Will the Titanic II Ever Sail?
  16. Fishing Boat and Tanker Collide in Galveston Fog — 1 Dead, 2 Missing
  17. One Hundred & One Years Ago Today — The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
  18. Disasters at Sea — Season 2, Now On Smithsonian Channel
  19. Animal Magnetism — Dogs, Deer, Whales & Cow Compasses
  20. The Mysteries of the Octopus
  21. The Old Weather Project — Citizen-Scientists, Ship’s Logs, & Climate Change
  22. Doggy Day Care on HMAS Choules
  23. Quarterdeck, Maritime Literature & Art Review
  24. Fiskardo Shipwreck — A 2,000 Year Old Container Ship
  25. Yacht Racing for Fun and Profit — Schooner America and Maxi Comanche
  26. Panama Canal Timelapse — 11 Hour Transit in 7 Minutes
  27. Why Knots Work and Why Some Don’t
  28. Buoy No One Noticed Was Missing Washes Up on Florida Beach
  29. Australian Navy Ships Evacuate 1,000 People Trapped by Bushfires
  30. Update: Liberty Ship John W. Brown May Find Home at Yard Where it Was Built
  31. Watching the Ball Drop — the Nautical Origins of a New Year’s Tradition

2019 363

December 2019

  1. New York Harbor Pilot Dies in Fall While Boarding Ship
  2. Six Men First to Row Unassisted Across Drake’s Passage
  3. Australia — Record Heat on Land, Devastating Heatwave Offshore
  4. 75th Rolex Sydney Hobart Race — the Maxis and the Unfortunate Shark
  5. Honoring the Coast Guard Heroes of Hurricane Harvey
  6. Ghost Net Kills Hundreds of Sharks Off Cayman Islands
  7. Hoisting the Christmas Tree to the Masthead on the Joseph Conrad at Mystic Seaport
  8. Wreckage of 16th Century Ship Samson Uncovered in Stockholm City Center
  9. The Sailing Ship Amongst the Battle Cruisers, Battle of the Falklands 1914
  10. Royal Navy and US Navy Aircraft Carriers — Integration or Outright Lease?
  11. 2020 Daysails on 1877 Barque Elissa
  12. Cruise Ship Bumper Cars — Carnival Glory Hits the Carnival Legend, Just Misses Oasis of the Seas
  13. First AC 75 to Capsize — “a Little Whoopsie” on Emirates Team NZ Te Aihe
  14. Kicked Out For Being Gay, US Navy Names New Ship USNS Harvey Milk
  15. Invasion of the Penis Fish
  16. The Blob Shuts Down the Alaskan Cod Season
  17. Déjà Vu — Concerns over the Cost of Competing for the America’s Cup
  18. The Bowhead Whale, the Longest Living Mammal
  19. More Woes for Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s Only Carrier, On Fire
  20. Restoring HMS Surprise, Ex HMS Rose, at the Maritime Museum of San Diego
  21. Barque Picton Castle’s Epic Voyage to the South Pacific 2020 – 2021
  22. Update: White Island Eruption — Six Dead, Eight Missing, Around 30 Injured
  23. Deadly Volcanic Eruption on New Zealand’s White Island — 5 Dead and More Than 20 Missing
  24. The Mystery of The Battle of the Falklands, 12/8/1914
  25. Radio Broadcasts Reporting Attack on Pearl Harbor 78 Years Ago Today
  26. Wreck of German WWI Cruiser Scharnhorst Discovered Off Falklands
  27. USS Ling — New Hope for WWII Sub Stuck in the Mud in the Hackensack River
  28. Des Pawson at his Museum of Knots and Sailors’ Ropework in Ipswich
  29. Spain Busts First Known Trans-Atlantic Narco Sub
  30. Other Uses for a Narwhal Tusk
  31. Newman’s Own Foundation Gives $225,000 Grant to Discovering Amistad

November 2019

  1. Clipper Round the World Yacht Race — Video From Race 3, Punta del Este to Cape Town
  2. Admiral James Holloway III Dies at 97
  3. Thanksgiving, Whaling Ships, Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary’s Lamb & a Liberty Ship
  4. Fastnet Race Finish Line Moved to France
  5. Livestock Carrier Queen Hind Capsizes with 14,600 Sheep Aboard
  6. What It Takes For SecNav to Get Fired — Broken Ships OK; Opposing War Crimes Not So Much
  7. Inventor of MarinaTex, Biodegradable Plastic from Fish Waste, Wins Dyson Award
  8. The Loss of the Christmas Tree Ship, November 23, 1912
  9. Clipper Ship Cutty Sark Launched 150 Years Ago Today
  10. New Staten Island Ferry, SSG Michael H. Ollis, Launched at Eastern Shipbuilding
  11. Update: Buyer Reported for Former Soviet Sub Docked Next to Queen Mary
  12. NOAA Phasing Out Paper Chart Production
  13. Deep-Sea Mining — Electric Cars, Electronics & Climate Change
  14. Documentary: Cosmic Birth — We Went to the Moon, But Discovered Earth
  15. LA Times: Coast Guard Rejected Calls for Stricter Safety Rules Prior to Deadly Dive Boat Fire
  16. Update: Liberty Ship SS John W. Brown Still Looking For a New Berth
  17. Eugene Ely & the First Aircraft Take-Off and Landing From a Ship
  18. Lobster on the Line — Trade War Threatens Maine Lobstermen
  19. The Navy’s Patents on UFO Tech and Compact Cold Fusion
  20. Lost Submarine USS Grayback Located After 75 Years
  21. USS Nimitz, USS Roosevelt & the Giant “Tic Tacs” — Navy Videos of “Unexplained Aerial Phenomena”
  22. Manhattan Waterfront in 1937 — The Frayed Frontier of This Golden Island
  23. Why Lightning Strikes Twice as Often Over Shipping Lanes — Dirty Fuel
  24. EU Funds Three Year WASP (Wind Assist Sail Propulsion) Project
  25. Update: One Year On, Rotor Sail Savings on Maersk Pelican on Target
  26. Suspected Niger River Delta Pirates Kidnap 13 Sailors From Two Ships
  27. Moving Closer to the Falls — the Century-Long Saga of the “Niagara Scow”
  28. “The Best Port in the World” — The Port of New York in the 1950s
  29. Wreckage of USS Johnston, Hero of the Battle of Samar, Located at 20,400 Feet Deep
  30. MS Roald Amundsen — First Hybrid Electric-Powered Expedition Cruise Ship

October 2019

  1. On Halloween — a Look at the Ohio River Ghost Ship
  2. In Iceland, It’s No Longer Legal to Kill Basques On Sight
  3. Replica Santa Maria (No, Not a Pirate Ship) Runs Aground in NY Harbor
  4. Testing SeaBubbles on the River Seine
  5. Happy Birthday to Galveston’s Tall Ship Elissa
  6. Sea Level Rising in the Chesapeake Bay & Beyond — Fox Island & the US Naval Academy
  7. Seventy Five Years Ago Today — Battle off Samar, a Victory Against All Odds
  8. USS Gerald R. Ford Deployment and the SecNav’s Promise
  9. Oyster Apocalypse –Louisiana Oyster Harvest Wiped Out by Flooding
  10. Researchers Locate Akagi — Second Japanese Carrier Sunk at Midway in WWII
  11. Trafalgar Day Repost: Conrad on Nelson at Trafalgar — What if the Wind Had Shifted?
  12. The Story of Bug Light — the Rise, Fall and Resurrection
  13. Lowell’s Boat Shop — Oldest Continuously Operated Boat Shop & Still Making Dories
  14. Paul Allen’s RV Petrel Locates Wreck of WWII Japanese Carrier Kaga
  15. Update: USCGC Acushnet For Sale Again
  16. Update: Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Seeks to Test Flying Cars in New York Harbor
  17. Swedish Navy Returns to Once-Secret Muskö Underground Naval Base
  18. CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, the World’s Largest LNG-Powered Container Ship
  19. Shrimp Fishing on Horseback on the Coast of Belgium
  20. Update: North Korean Bulker Wise Honest Sold to Compensate Victims’ Families
  21. Solaris, Solar-Powered Tour Boat to Ply the Hudson
  22. Update: Billboard Barge Booted From New York Harbor
  23. Passengers’ Near-Riot on Norwegian Spirit “Mystical Fjords” Cruise
  24. Was the ‘Enormous Serpent’ of HMS Daedalus in 1848 a “Sei” Monster?
  25. Econowind Modular Sail Assist — Thinking Inside the Box
  26. Flying Clipper, World’s Largest Square Rigged Sailing Ship, On Trials & In Limbo
  27. China Celebrates 70th Anniversary, Displays Dangerous New Naval Weapons
  28. Schooner Regina Maris Chartered by 36 Climate Activists to Travel to Chilean Conference
  29. North Korea Developing Ballistic Missile Submarine, Tests Sub-Launched Missile
  30. Bronze Age Tin from Cornwall Identified in Shipwrecks Off Israel
  31. Divers Destroy WWII Bomb Found in 17th Century Ship London

September 2019

  1. Record Setting Hurricane Lorenzo Threatens Azores
  2. Deal Reached for Clipper Ship City of Adelaide & Seaport Village at Dock Two
  3. Three Rescued from Tug Bourbon Rhode Lost in Hurricane Lorenzo, Eleven Missing
  4. Do Octopus Change Color As They Dream?
  5. Dutch Shipowner Investing in New Ventifoil Wind-Assist Technology
  6. UN Report: Oceans Getting Hotter & Sea Levels Rising Faster
  7. A Look at McLean’s Clipper Ships — the Fastest Cargo Ships in the World
  8. Update: Ex-Presidential Yacht Sequoia Bound for Restoration in Maine
  9. America’s Cup Gets Interesting — Two Very Different AC75s
  10. The Beauty of Sail, Video and Stills by Onne van der Wal
  11. “Meet Us Don’t Eat Us” — Tourists to Iceland Support Both Whale Watching and Whaling
  12. Sarah Thomas, Cancer Survivor, Swims English Channel Four Times Non-Stop
  13. US Navy Deploys Carrier Group (Without a Carrier) & Activates 28 Ready Reserve Cargo Ships
  14. Crossing the Arctic Circle — An Unexpected Line Crossing Baptism
  15. Humpback Whale Watching Off Hólmavík, Iceland
  16. Are Delta Queen Safety Exemptions Justified?
  17. Shakespeare at Sea — Hamlet on the Red Dragon
  18. Update: Akademik Lomonosov — Russia’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Sets Sail
  19. Ancient Sailors — More Evidence that First Settlers in North America May Have Arrived by Sea
  20. Update: Return of the Floating Pacific Pumice Islands — Will Floating Rocks Save a Reef?
  21. Silent Yachts — Are Electric Motor Yachts the Future?
  22. Nocturnal for Both Bears
  23. “Superlapse” Video of Gloucester Schooner Festival Parade of Sail 2019
  24. Riding Tug Vinik No. 6 to Victory — 27th Annual Great North River Tugboat Race
  25. Welcome Almost-Home Jeanne Socrates, Record Setting Circumnavigator!
  26. Cruise Lines Donating Millions for Bahamas Dorian Disaster Relief
  27. Port Townsend’s 43rd Annual Wooden Boat Festival
  28. Dive Boat Disaster — 34 Feared Dead in Catastrophic Fire Off Santa Cruz Island
  29. Launching of the Mayflower II at Mystic Seaport
  30. Blue Mermaid — A New Thames Sailing Barge

August 2019

  1. US Navy Sends Six Ships “Safely Out to Sea” To Avoid Hurricane Dorian
  2. Labor Day Weekend Roundup — 27th Annual North River Tugboat Race
  3. Video from Franklin’s Terror — A Shipwreck Frozen in Time
  4. Greta Thunberg Sails into New York Harbor
  5. Black Dog’s Shenandoah For Sale & Plans for Shenandoah 2.0
  6. Empress of China — the Chinese Trade That Began in 1784
  7. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Transiting the Cape Cod Canal
  8. Congratulations to Captain Belinda Bennett, First Black Female Cruise Ship Captain
  9. Green Energy in Denmark — World’s Largest Electric Ferry & New Offshore Wind Farm
  10. No ‘Times Square on the Hudson’ — New York State Bans Barges with Electronic Billboards
  11. Talbot’s Image of SS Great Britain — First Ship Photograph
  12. 400 Years Ago, Slavery Arrived in America in the Privateers White Lion and the Treasurer
  13. Iceland’s Funeral for a Glacier Lost to Climate Change
  14. Iolaire Lost on the Northeast Coast of Ibiza
  15. Neoline to Build Sailing Car Carriers at Neopolia
  16. On National Rum Day — Rum and the Sea
  17. Greta Thunberg at Sea on Her Way to UN Conference
  18. Remembering the Tragic Fastnet Race of 1979
  19. Amsterdam to Build a Dynamic Roboat “Bridge”
  20. National Sailing Hall of Fame Announces 2019 Inductees
  21. Swedish East Indiaman Götheborg to Sail Again with Support of Greencarrier Group
  22. New Jersey’s Oystering Communities, Bivalve and Shellpile from 1993
  23. Vermont Sailing Barge Ceres for Sale
  24. TBT: Alexander Hamiltons’ Lighthouse — History or Legend?
  25. National Lighthouse Day Concert Tonight on the Lighthouse Tender Lilac
  26. 27th Annual Great North River Tugboat Race Sunday, September 1st
  27. Belated Bicentennial Birthday Wishes to Herman Melville
  28. Coast Guard Extracts Oil From Coimbra, WWII Tanker Torpedoed Off Long Island Coast
  29. SEAL Commander — “We Have a Problem”
  30. Celebrate Coast Guard Day All Weekend on the Historic Lighthouse Tender Lilac
  31. Debate Over What To Do About The SS Richard Montgomery — “Time Bomb” in the Thames

July 2019

  1. Tug W.O. Decker Working Again In New York Harbor
  2. Bloody Brawl on P&O Britannia, With or Without a Clown
  3. USCG Barque Eagle Returns to New London After 5 Year Overhaul
  4. Pilot Boats of New York Harbor 1899 and Today
  5. Google Spotlight Stories: Age of Sail
  6. Do Cruise Ships Have A Sexual Assault Problem?
  7. Update: Solar Sail Satellite LightSail 2 Deployed in Orbit
  8. Update: Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) Decommissioning STS Lord Nelson
  9. French Sub Minerve That Vanished 50 Years Ago Found in Mediterranean
  10. Intact 500 Year Old Shipwreck Found on Baltic Seafloor
  11. Navigating to the Moon — Remembering the Apollo Sextant
  12. The Ferris Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
  13. USS Eagle 56 — Last Navy Warship Sunk by U-Boat in WWII Found off Maine
  14. Mallows Bay ‘Ghost Fleet’ Made a National Marine Sanctuary
  15. 50th Transpacific Race — Pyewacket Rescues OEX Crew After Rudder Failure
  16. MSC Gayane Freed on Bond, Sailing for the Netherlands
  17. Dramatic Video of Coast Guard Boarding Drug-Running Submersible
  18. The Flying AC75s — Genius, Folly or Both?
  19. The 8,850 Kilometer Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt — From the Gulf to West Africa
  20. NYC City of Water Day 2019 — Free Fun at the Waterfront
  21. Update: Who Owns MSC Gayane? Does it Matter?
  22. Mary Day Wins 43rd Annual Great Schooner Race
  23. Container Ship MSC Gayane Seized by Feds Following $1.3 B Cocaine Bust
  24. Update: Jubilee Sailing Trust Crisis Averted — £1M Raised in Five Days
  25. Yeast from the Sydney Cove –World’s Oldest Beer Brought Back to Life?
  26. Columbia & Pea Islands for Sale for $13 Million
  27. Chantey Sing Aboard Windjammer Wavertree at South Street Seaport
  28. Joseph Hewes – First “Secretary of the Navy” and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  29. Fire on Russian Spy Sub AS-12 “Losharik” Kills 14
  30. Japan Returns to Commercial Whaling, More or Less
  31. Crisis at the Jubilee Sailing Trust, Emergency Appeal Hopes to Prevent Shutdown

June 2019

  1. West Australian Jon Sanders at 79 Planning 11th Circumnavigation
  2. Update: Norwegian Frigate Helge Ingstad Too Expensive to Repair
  3. Documentary: Maiden — First All-Female Team to Race Around-the-World
  4. Who Needs a Wall? East Coast Port Cocaine Container Busts Setting Records
  5. Carnival’s New Mardi Gras Will Be Powered by LNG
  6. New York Sail GP, 50 Knots on the Hudson
  7. Cargo Ship Kwai Collects 40 Tons of Ghost Nets from Pacific Garbage Patch
  8. Alaskan Sails 8′ Walker Bay Dinghy Across the Bering Sea
  9. Rebuilding the Tall Ship Providence
  10. Salvaging Pilot Schooner No. 5 Elbe
  11. The Bizarre Smuggling Scheme on MSC Gayane
  12. Happy Juneteenth! When Emancipation Arrived by Steamship, 154 Years Ago Today
  13. 15.5 Metric Tonnes of Cocaine Seized on Container Ship MSC Gayane in Philly
  14. First New Polar Icebreaker Under Contract, Delivery by 2024
  15. Sailing the Around the World on Kamana — Five Years in Five Minutes
  16. Video of the Collision of Schooner No 5. Elbe & Container Ship Astrosprinter
  17. Hyundai/NorsePower Eco-Tanker Design — VLCC Powered by LNG, the Wind, and Cargo Vapor
  18. Two Tankers Attacked in Gulf of Oman, Near Strait of Hormuz
  19. Update: Danube Tragedy — A Crowded River & Second Collision for Viking Officer
  20. Remembering the Schooner Wander Bird — Rounding Cape Horn 1936
  21. Pilot Schooner No. 5 Elbe, ex-Wander Bird, Sinks After Collision on River Elbe
  22. Update: Jeanne Socrates Moors Off New Zealand To Make Repairs
  23. Carnival Cops a Plea — $20 Million Fine for Continuing to Pollute
  24. Remembering the Battle of Midway, 77 Years Ago This Week
  25. On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, Remembering Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Higgins Boat
  26. Who’s the Pirate — Blackbeard or the State of North Carolina? Supreme Court Will Decide
  27. MSC Opera Crash Prompts New Calls to Limit Large Cruise Ships in Venice
  28. Cruise Ship MSC Opera Loses Control in Venice — Hits Dock and Tour Boat
  29. World’s Largest Lionfish Tournament Removes 19,167 of the Invasive Predators
  30. Coast Guard Rescues Couple From Capsized Sailboat, 65 Miles East of New Jersey

May 2019

  1. Tragedy in the Congo — Overloaded Boat Sinks on Lake Mai-Ndombe, 45 Dead, 200 Missing
  2. River Cruise Ship Viking Sigyn Collides with Tour Boat in Danube — 7 Dead, 22 Missing
  3. USS Batfish Battles Flooding Rivers
  4. World Superyacht of the Year, My Song, Falls Off Ship
  5. On Memorial Day — New Hope and Concerns for the Last Dreadnought, USS Texas
  6. Update: Clotilda, the Last Slave Ship Found
  7. Stepping the Mast of the Tall Ship Providence
  8. Celebrate Historic USCG Cutter Lilac’s 86th Birthday with Cake
  9. Fleet Week NYC 2019, Parade of Ships
  10. Remembering the Savannah on National Maritime Day
  11. The Return of Humpbacks to New York and Basking Sharks to California
  12. Russian Priest, 67, Rows Across Southern Ocean
  13. GAO Report on USS Zumwalt Debacle — Deficiencies, Delays and No Big Guns
  14. Jeanne Socrates, Singlehanding at 76, Suffers Knockdown Off New Zealand
  15. Update: Wind Challenger Project — Developing a Hybrid Sail Assisted Cargo Ship
  16. Trash In the Trench — Record Dive Find Plastics in Challenger Deep
  17. Hamburg Hafengeburtstag 2019, 830th Birthday of the Port of Hamburg
  18. Sailors’ Tattoos on Mother’s Day
  19. Opportunity to Sail on Picton Castle in the Great Lakes
  20. US Takes Control of Wise Honest, North Korea’s Sanctions Violating Bulker Carrier
  21. Jean-Jacques Savin Completes Trans-Atlantic Crossing, Drifting in a Barrel
  22. Heavy-Lift Ship Blue Marlin Freed After Attempted Hijacking Off Equatorial Guinea
  23. Allure of the Seas Slow Steaming for 5 Months Due to Continued Azipod Problems
  24. Update: Dmitri Donskoii Shipwreck Scammers Go to Jail
  25. Holland America Cruise Ships Collide in Vancouver
  26. Scientist’s Models Predict “Water Worlds”
  27. Russian Spy Beluga Whale Defects to Norway
  28. St. Lucia Quarantines Scientology Cruise Ship for Measles
  29. Time-Lapse: When and If Over-Takes America 2.0, 2019 Wreckers Race

April 2019

  1. Ancient Seafarers, Stonehenge and the Megaliths
  2. Corpus Christi’s Replica of Columbus’ Niña Sinks Again
  3. Waterfront Heroes: Women on the Waterfront at City Lore
  4. Are Ships She, He, or It, and Does it Matter?
  5. William H Sumner Shipwreck from 1919 Reappears Off NC’s Surf City
  6. Blind Japanese Sailor Sails Non-Stop Across the Pacific
  7. Transient Orcas Scare Even Great White Sharks
  8. How Will a Pedal-Powered Party Boat Do in the Hudson River?
  9. Update: Jean-Jacques Savin, Drifting in a Barrel Across the Atlantic, Still Drifting
  10. Update: Sub Vets Sue to Save USS Clamagore
  11. Man at Sea — Iain Percy
  12. Tall Ship Oliver Hazard Perry Begins Year-Round Local Programming
  13. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Sailing To Celebrate 50th Anniversary of First Golden Globe Race
  14. Dog Saved by Oil Rig Workers 135 Miles from Shore
  15. Remembering Bill Heine & His Legacy — the Headington Shark
  16. Navy Orders Four Orca XLUUV Drone Submarines From Boeing
  17. Working Harbor Committee Gala Honoring Capt. James DeSimone
  18. Lightsail 2 — Sailing on an Ocean of Light
  19. Canadian Premiere of Trapped in Typhoon Alley, the Mystery of MV Derbyshire
  20. Judge Threatens to Block Carnival Cruise Ships from Docking in US Ports
  21. Reefing the Patriot’s Point Submarine USS Clamagore
  22. Three Sailors in the Fog — Will You Get in Trouble With the Captain?
  23. Flying P Liner Pommern Reopening to the Public With New Exhibits at New Dock
  24. Search for the Lost Ships of Cortés Finds Ancient Anchor
  25. Galveston’s Tall Ship Elissa — Sailing in Her 142nd Year
  26. The Great Barrier Reef is Dying, Climate Change is the Culprit
  27. Search for Lost Containers Reveals 16th Century Shipwreck
  28. Submarines Flying the Jolly Roger, the Tradition Behind the Pirate Flag
  29. River Cruiser Viking Idun Collides with Chemical Tanker Near Antwerp
  30. Whale Breaches, Delays Basketball Game

March 2019

  1. On Lake Michigan — the Glorious Ice Shards of Spring
  2. Queen Mary Operators Plan to Remove B-427 ‘Scorpion’ Submarine
  3. Brunt Ice Shelf — Countdown to Calving of Iceberg Twice the Size of NYC
  4. NYC Sues Digital Billboard Barge Cruising City Rivers
  5. Viking Sky Engine Loss Blamed on Low Oil Pressure
  6. Hagland Captain — the Other Ship Rescued Off Norway
  7. Viking Ocean Cruises — From Awards to Near Disaster
  8. Update: Cruise Ship Viking Sky Underway After Extremely Close Call
  9. Cruise Ship Viking Sky Being Evacuated in Storm off Norwegian Coast
  10. Horseshoe Crab Blood and Big Pharma Vampires
  11. US Navy Moving Toward Drone “Ghost Fleet”
  12. Time to Burn Your Socks on the First Day of Spring?
  13. Octopus & Squid RNA Editing– Amazing and Really Weird
  14. Herodotus Got It Right — the Baris from Thonis-Heracleion
  15. On St. Patrick’s Day — Emerald Green Icebergs
  16. Shiplore Screening of “Trapped In Typhoon Alley” — the Mystery of the Loss of the MV Derbyshire
  17. USS Fort McHenry Quarantined at Sea for Two Months
  18. Women’s History Month — Eleanor Creesy, Navigator of the Clipper Ship Flying Cloud
  19. Clipper Ship Cutty Sark 150th Anniversary — A Year-Long Celebration
  20. Container Fire Sinks Con/Ro Grande America in Bay of Biscay
  21. New Species of Orca Identified — Say Hello to Type D
  22. The Women Lighthouse Keepers of New Orleans’ New Canal Lighthouse
  23. Right Whales, Seismic Testing, & a Congressman and an Air Horn
  24. Statue Honoring Lighthouse Keeper Kate Walker
  25. In the Deepest Ocean Trenches, Animals Eating Plastic
  26. Congratulations to USCG Lt. Ronaqua Russell — First Black Female Aviator Awarded Air Medal
  27. 100 Knot Wind Gusts Rock Cruise Ship Norwegian Escape, Several Passengers Injured
  28. World’s Oldest Clipper Ship, City Of Adelaide – Forced to Move, In Need of a Home
  29. Unfolding Oil Spill Disaster at Solomon Islands Marine Reserve
  30. Attracting Sharks, Death Metal or Chum?
  31. Public Auction in Hawaii Fails — No Successful Bids on Falls of Clyde

February 2019

  1. Update: Raising the Norwegian Frigate Helge Ingstad
  2. Paul Cuffee, African-American Captain, Merchant & Shipowner
  3. Update: Congress Restores Funding for Heavy Icebreaker — First in 40 Years
  4. Movie to Be Made About Robert Smalls’ Daring Hijacking of CSS Planter
  5. Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge — Save the Ocean! Win Valuable Prizes! (Really)
  6. Pyrosomes — Weird & Wonderful Giant Sea Worms
  7. Autonomous Ship Sea Hunter Sails From California to Hawaii & Back
  8. Coast Guard Officer Accused of Plotting Domestic Terrorism
  9. “Starship Sailor” Jonny Kim — Navy SEAL, Doctor and NASA Astronaut Trainee
  10. New Directions for SSV Oliver Hazard Perry — Best Wishes to Captain Kabak & OHPRI
  11. Frederick Douglass — “I Will Take to the Water”
  12. Restoring the Ariki, One of NZ’s Oldest Yachts
  13. Update: Leopard Seal Scat Memory Stick Owner Found
  14. Update: Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 Abandons Search for Shackleton’s Endurance
  15. Valentine’s Day TBT – Valentine Islands
  16. Review: Disasters at Sea — Deadly Neglect, the Loss of the Marine Electric
  17. Tallship Oliver Hazard Perry in Drydock with Uncertain Future
  18. Walter H. Munk — Pioneering Oceanographer Dies at 101
  19. MERMAIDS and Magma Plumes
  20. First Antiguan Team in Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge — World’s Toughest Row
  21. State of Hawaii Files Notice of Public Auction for the Falls of Clyde
  22. Leopard Seal Poop, the USB Drive, and Kayaking Video
  23. Magnetic North Pole on the Move — How Big a Deal?
  24. Sailing Tankers — From the Falls of Clyde to the Maersk Pelican
  25. First Baby Giant Tortoises Hatched on Galapagos’ Pinzón Island in 150 Years
  26. Popeye the Sailorman at 90
  27. Polar Star in the Antarctic — Still Hanging On Despite Repeated Breakdowns
  28. Historic Tall Ship Falls of Clyde Almost Sinks at Dock

January 2019

  1. Court Rules for Blue Water Navy Veterans Victims of Agent Orange
  2. Seeking Shackleton’s Endurance Beneath the Larsen C Ice Shelf
  3. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede Wins Golden Globe Race After 221 Days at Sea
  4. EL Dorado, Hard-Luck Casino Boat to Sleep with the Fishes
  5. Ice Jams on the Hudson River Break Moorings, Shut Down Bridges
  6. Grave Of Matthew Flinders Found, First To Circumnavigate Australia
  7. Replica of HMS Endeavour to Circumnavigate Australia
  8. Will Titanic II Be Built or Just Sink Again?
  9. The Fitzgerald Tragedy & the Fort Report –Worse Than We Thought
  10. As Deadline Nears, Fears that Falls of Clyde May be Sold
  11. Timelapse of Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse
  12. Derelicts, Then and Now — From Lumber Schooners to Racers
  13. Return of Deep Blue — Largest Great White Shark Goes Viral
  14. Some of the Things the Coast Guard Has Been Doing While Not Getting Paid
  15. TBT – NY Harbor Ferries & the Other “Miracle on the Hudson”
  16. “Cost Explosion” on Repair of German Training Ship Gorch Foch
  17. One Hundred Years Ago Today — The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
  18. Thoughts on a Broken Boom — No Simple Solution to Ocean Plastic
  19. Baby Shark Takes over the World — Song Hits Billboard Top 40!
  20. The World is in Hot Water — Ocean Warming Accelerating
  21. Hamilton’s Hurricanes — The Great Storm of 1772 and Hurricane Maria of 2017
  22. Crabber Mary B II Capsizes Crossing Yaquina Bay bar — Three Fishermen Lost
  23. Jeanne Socrates — Singlehanding Non-Stop Around the World at 76
  24. Disasters at Sea — New Series on the Smithsonian Channel
  25. Save the Falls of Clyde International Postpones Ship Move
  26. Bad Week for Containerships, Part 2 — Yantian Express on Fire, Crew Evacuated
  27. Bad Week for Container Ships, Part 1 — 277 Boxes Lost on MSC Zoe
  28. Remembering the HMY Iolaire Disaster, 100 Years Ago This Week
  29. A Closer Look at Abby Sunderland’s Unsinkable ‘Wild Eyes’
  30. Car Carrier ‘Sincerity Ace’ on Fire — 16 Rescued, 1 Missing, 4 Feared Dead
  31. A Virtual Visit to Null Island — “Like No Place on Earth”

2018 363

December 2018

  1. RMS Warrimoo — In Several Places and Times at Once
  2. The Coast Guard, Drug Busts, and the Wall
  3. After 72 Years, Oil From Nuke Test Survivor Prinz Eugen Removed
  4. French Adventurer Drifting Across the Atlantic in a Barrel
  5. 42,000 US Coast Guard Personnel Working Without Pay During Shutdown
  6. The Continuing Legacy of the Christmas Tree Ship
  7. A Christmas Miracle — Cruise Ship Empress of the Seas Rescues Fishermen
  8. Riverboat Car Washes
  9. Tsunami Kills More Than 200 Following Anak Krakatau Eruption
  10. What is the World’s Most Densely Populated Island?
  11. Gladys West — Pioneer of GPS Technology
  12. Plastic Collecting Boom Not Collecting Plastics
  13. As the Scandal Rolls on, What Has Become of Fat Leonard?
  14. Golden Globe — Igor Zaretskiy Out, Five Sail On
  15. Orcas Swimming with Woman off Coromandel, NZ
  16. Sailboat Drifts Ashore in South Africa, Body of French Sailor Aboard
  17. Visiting the Titanic in Person For the Cost of An Original First Class Ticket
  18. And Then There Were Six — Sinclair Retires From Golden Globe Race
  19. Update: Norwegian Frigate and Tanker Collision — What Happened?
  20. Brexit & the Scallop Wars May Save RN Patrol Vessels
  21. Amanda Sparrow & Her Ghostly Pirate Hubby Split Up
  22. Wreck of John Paul Jones’ Ship USS Bonhomme Richard Located Off Yorkshire
  23. Drone Footage from Sultana Downrigging Weekend
  24. Susie Goodall Rescued by Cargo Ship Tian Fu
  25. USS Arizona Memorial Remains Closed, Expected to Reopen Late March 2019
  26. Golden Globe Race — Susie Goodall’s Boat Pitchpoled and Dismasted
  27. USS George H.W. Bush Sailors Hold Flashlight Vigil for Late President
  28. Introducing “Britannia’s Mission” by Antione Vanner
  29. Remembering Naval Aviator George H.W. Bush in WWII
  30. U.S. Navy Admiral Scott Stearney Found Dead in Bahrain
  31. Trump Admin Approves Seismic Testing Which Harms Whales and Dolphins
  32. Jimmy Buffett’s New Surfari 50 — Love it or Hate it?

November 2018

  1. Remembering the MS St. Louis — Canada Apologizes for Turning Away Refugees
  2. Delta Queen May Sail Again — Congress Grants SOLAS Exemption
  3. Retired Admiral & Trump Nominee — Latest to be Sunk by Fat Leonard Scandal
  4. Conflict in the Kerch Strait — Russia Blocks Strait and Seizes Ukrainian Navy Vessels
  5. Tommy Thompson & the Missing SS Central America Gold Coins – the Saga Continues
  6. USS Gerald R. Ford, Supercarrier With No Urinals
  7. Andrew Fitzgerald, Last SS Pendleton Rescuer, Dies at 87
  8. On Thanksgiving, Mayflower II Arriving in New York 1957
  9. Coast Guard Cracks Down on Major Oil Spill Which You Probably Never Heard Of
  10. Historic Liberty Ship John W. Brown Looking for a New Berth
  11. Sailing the Star of India
  12. Happy Birthday Star of India — 155 Years Old and Still Sailing!
  13. Wreckage of Missing Argentine Submarine San Juan Located in Deep Atlantic
  14. Update: Ben Lecomte Still Swimming Across the Pacific — Over 1,200 Miles So Far
  15. Autumn Winds Carry Ghost Ship Fleet to Japan Again
  16. American Magic, AKA the Mule, Foiling Across Narraganset Bay
  17. Update: KNM Helge Ingstad Sinks Beneath the Fjord
  18. The Sinking Dry Dock and the Smoking Aircraft Carrier with a Bad Heart
  19. Branson Duck Boat Captain Charged with Sailor’s Manslaughter
  20. Norwegian Frigate Helge Ingstad — “We Have Everything Under Control”
  21. Tanker Collides with Norwegian Frigate — Frigate Loses
  22. Maxi-Tri Banque Populaire IX Capsizes Again, Second Capsize This Year
  23. Update: Sailor Pleads Guilty to Wife’s Death at Sea
  24. Falls of Clyde Heading Toward Scotland in 2019?
  25. Costly Carrier Without Working Elevators & Destroyer Without Ammo
  26. Ross Edgley, First Person to Swim Around Great Britain
  27. Mr. Trash Wheel on the West Coast
  28. A Less Than Excellent Docking by the Cruise/Ferry Excellent in Barcelona

October 2018

  1. Study — Oceans Warming Faster Than Previously Thought
  2. Join Us For “Hell Around the Horn” at NMHS Seminar Series, Nov 3rd
  3. New Memorial to NY Tug Crew Abducted by UFO in 1977
  4. Little Brigs are for Sale
  5. “Invisible” Superyacht Mirage — Good Idea or Bad?
  6. The History Guy on the Naval Battle of Campeche
  7. A Sail on the Draken Harald Hårfagre in New York Harbor
  8. Scientists Find Oldest Intact Shipwreck in Black Sea
  9. Hurricane Michael Unearths Ships Lost in Hurricane 119 Years Ago
  10. Grays Harbor Historical Seaport: Learn. Sail. Discover.
  11. Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, First Visit to New York Harbor
  12. Raye Montague, Barrier-Shattering Navy Ship Designer, Dies at 83
  13. Coast Guard Auxiliary Radio Day & 79th Anniversary Celebration on Cutter Lilac
  14. Cable Car Ride Down Gibraltar
  15. Surge Barriers for New York — the Best or Worst of Solutions?
  16. Women and Children First — The Birkenhead Disaster
  17. Nautical Coincidence & Lifeboat Morality – Richard Parker and the Mignonette
  18. The Unsinkable Hugh Williams – Truth Behind the Legend?
  19. Algae Apocalypse — Sargassum Spreads Across the Caribbean & Florida
  20. Sailor’s Tattoos – Pigs, Chickens, Swallows, and Tattooed Backsides
  21. Mutant Green Crabs Invading Maine
  22. Lessons From the Golden Globe Race, So Far — the Limits of Retro Racing
  23. MIT’s SoFi — the Swimming Robotic Fish
  24. Save the Tug Urger, Flagship of the Erie Canal!
  25. New Jersey Opening Bids on Major Offshore Wind Project
  26. Fighter Jets Land for the First Time on HMS Queen Elizabeth
  27. NTSB Video on the Investigation of the Sinking of US Cargo Vessel El Faro
  28. US and China Navy Have “Unsafe” Encounter In South China Sea
  29. None of Indonesia’s 22 Tsunami Early Warning Buoys Were Working
  30. SB Met, First Robot Vessel to Cross the Atlantic — Or Is It?

September 2018

  1. Wreck of 400 Year Old Portuguese Spice Ship Discovered Near Cascais
  2. Indonesian Earthquake & Tsunami — Over 400 Killed or Missing
  3. Slapped in the Face by a Seal with an Octopus, It’s Not About You
  4. Remembering Jack Putnam — South Street’s Seaport Melville and So Much More
  5. Update: Trial Date Set for Smuggler Charged with Murdering His Wife at Sea
  6. Indonesian Teenager Adrift for 49 Days Rescued Near Guam
  7. Golden Globe Race — Injured Sailor on Dismasted Yacht Rescued
  8. Survivor Found Inside Tanzania Ferry 2 Days After Capsize, Death Toll at 209
  9. Suspects in USS Ling Vandalism Apprehended
  10. Hundreds Feared Drowned as Overloaded Ferry Capsizes in Lake Victoria
  11. Bouchard at 100 — Remembering Captain Fred and the Attack on Black Tom
  12. Archaeologists Closer to Identifying Cook’s Bark Endeavour
  13. Former Liberty Ship Converted to Nuclear Power Plant to be Scrapped
  14. Eric Jay Dolin’s Black Flags, Blue Waters, the Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates – A Review
  15. Catching Plastic with a Giant Boom — Will it Work?
  16. Will Hurricane Florence Force North Carolina to Face Rising Sea Levels?
  17. Monster Storms East and West — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut
  18. Irish Fishermen Net 10,000 Year Old Great Elk Skull and Antlers
  19. Tugs, Ferries and 9/11 — BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience
  20. Alex Thomson — What Does It Take to Sail Around the World Solo
  21. The 26th Annual Great North River Tugboat Race
  22. Remembering Alex Storm, Canadian Treasure Hunter
  23. Rotor Sail Testing Begins on Product Tanker Maersk Pelican
  24. Tall Ship Oliver Hazard Perry Pausing for a Reset
  25. 26th Annual Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition This Sunday
  26. The Big Oyster in the Big Apple — the Biggest Oyster in 100 Years
  27. On Labor Day — When Sailors Struck the Topsails in 1768
  28. Memorial Service for Tall Ships America’s Bert Rogers
  29. Microscopic Mushroom Textures to Keep Barnacles Off of Ship Hulls
  30. Hundreds of Seals Dying Along the New England Coast

August 2018

  1. Invasive Species Riding Plastic Rafts Across Oceans
  2. Another Sailboat Hits Moored Museum Ship, USS Midway
  3. New Owners for Schooner Victory Chimes
  4. The Golden Globe Race So Far — Dismasting in the Southern Ocean
  5. The Rise of the Mountain of Fire and the Birth of the Only Elephant in Iceland
  6. Close Encounters of the Cetacean Kind off the Jersey Shore
  7. Remembering Hilary Lister — Quadriplegic Solo Sailor, Dies at 46
  8. As Hurricane Lane Approaches, Why Hurricanes Are So Rare in Hawaii
  9. Carrier Ale, the Queen’s Head Pub and the HMS Queen Elizabeth,
  10. Claims of Vast Treasure on Dmitrii Donskoi Wreck a Likely Cryptocurrency Scam
  11. A Monday Morning Sea Story — Woman Falls off Sailboat, Husband Doesn’t Notice
  12. HMS Queen Elizabeth Sails for US For First Flight Trials
  13. Three More Retired Navy Personnel Charged in Fat Leonard Scandal
  14. From Beneath the Toxic Black Mayonnaise of the Gowanus, the SS Gay
  15. Stern of Destroyer USS Abner Read, Sunk in WWII, Found Off Aleutians
  16. WWII Submarine USS Ling Vandalized — Plaques Stolen, Sub Flooded
  17. Remembering Bert Rogers, Executive Director of Tall Ships America
  18. The Collapse of Venezuela & the New Pirates of the Caribbean
  19. US Border Patrol Boats Harrass Canadian Lobster Boats in the “Gray Zone”
  20. Sea Nomads, the Bajau, May Be Genetically Adapted for Diving
  21. Repost: The Battle of Stonington, CT 1814 — Rocket’s Red Glare, Bombs Bursting in Air
  22. Navy Supply Officer “Kaz” Prince Pleads Guilty in $2.7 Million Procurement Scam
  23. Red Tide & Green Water — Florida’s Algae Disaster
  24. Bryce Carlson Shatters North Atlantic Rowing Record
  25. Iceberg and the White Orcas of the Western North Pacific
  26. Will New USCG Icebreaker Be Torpedoed by the Border Wall?
  27. Happy 228th Birthday to the US Coast Guard !
  28. Shark Stolen in a Baby-Stroller From San Antonio Aquarium
  29. Branson Duck Boat Tragedy — the COI and the Severe Thunderstorm Watch
  30. Thieves Escape by Speedboat After Heisting Crown Jewels

July 2018

  1. Amistad at the Mary Whalen — Returning August 11th
  2. Congratulations to Clipper Round the World Race Winner Skippers Wendy Tuck & Nikki Henderson
  3. Court Rules Shipwreck Ribault’s Flagship, la Trinité, Property of France
  4. Spain’s New S-80 Plus Submarine Too Big For its Dock
  5. True Facts About the Cuttle Fish
  6. Friday’s Blood Moon, Mars, and End of the World (Again)
  7. Power Paddle to Puyallup — “Honoring Our Medicine”
  8. Happy Birthday AMVER — Sixty Years of Saving Lives at Sea
  9. Canal to Coast: Reuniting the Waters — Harbor Tour, NY Harbor and the Erie Canal, Aug 2
  10. Drone Footage of Viking Longship Draken Harald Hårfagre Departing Plymouth
  11. Freedom Schooner Amistad at PortSide NewYork
  12. Duck Boat Capsizes Near Branson, MO — 11 Dead, 6 Missing
  13. Gold & the Wreck of the Russian Cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi — Real or Hype?
  14. Hawaiian Tour Boat “Hot Spot” Hit by Lava Bomb, Injuring 23
  15. Race to Save Albania’s Shipwrecks for Preservation and Profit
  16. On Monday — True Facts About The Octopus
  17. Massive Iceberg Threatens Greenland Village
  18. Graving Dock Flooding Damages USNS Miguel Keith at General Dynamics NASSCO
  19. HMS Victory’s Fore Topsail From Trafalgar to be Unfurled at Portsmouth
  20. Orcas of the Salish Sea are Dying
  21. Viking Ship Draken Harald Hårfagre — East Coast Tour 2018 Underway
  22. Politician Campaigning by Yacht Rescued by Coast Guard
  23. Heritage Wins Honors in Maine’s 42nd Annual Great Schooner Race
  24. Trump Cancels Protection of Whales and Sea Turtles Proposed by Fishing Industry
  25. Spanish Divers Find Wreck of World War II Submarine U-966
  26. The Monkey Fist’s Nasty Cousin — the Slungshot
  27. SS Great Britain Returns to Bristol, 48 Years Ago Today
  28. True Facts About the Sea Pig
  29. Stopping Plastic Bags Before They Reach the Oceans
  30. Kayaking Through the Engine Room of MV E Evangelia
  31. Diving the USS Oriskany — the Great Carrier Reef on Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail

June 2018

  1. Testing the SeaBubble Fly-By-Wire Control System
  2. SV Kwai — Cargo and Passenger Service Under Sail in the South Pacific
  3. Grouper Eats Lionfish — Does the Invasive Fish Face Local Predators?
  4. Alexander Graham Bell and the Hydrodome #4
  5. Trade War Hits Maine & Alaskan Fishermen
  6. Antarctica Melting Three Times as Fast as a Decade Ago
  7. Looters of Wreck of HMS Hermes Found Guilty
  8. Maud Returns Home — Home Trip 2018
  9. A Look Inside the Abandoned Soviet Sub in Amsterdam
  10. Is the Collapse of the Maine Lobster Industry on the Horizon?
  11. Over 190 Feared Dead After Sumatran Ferry Sinks in Lake Toba
  12. Livestreaming of NOAA Shipwreck Exploration off Hatteras
  13. The Last U-Boat Captain, Reinhard Hardegen, & the Tanker Coimbra
  14. Matriarchs of Sail Training — the Five Sisters of the Gorch Fock Class
  15. True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp
  16. Great White Shark Cafe
  17. Sail and Work in the South Pacific — Tiare Taporo Seeking Crew
  18. China Hacks the Sea Dragon — Secret Plans of Anti-Ship Missile
  19. Archipelago New York — a Modern Day Exploration, Book Talk, June 18th
  20. Sea of Trash Near Bali, the Bad & the Slightly Less Bad News
  21. US Navy Review Shows Failure in Basic Seamanship
  22. Norfolk’s Harborfest, Slavery & Remembrance
  23. Project Natick — Microsoft Tests an Underwater Data-Center
  24. Ben Lecomte Begins Attempt to Swim Across the Pacific
  25. Remembering Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Higgins Boat on D-Day
  26. Waves of Rubbish Wash Up on Australian Beaches After 83 Containers Lost Overboard
  27. USS Arizona Memorial At Pearl Harbor Closes Indefinitely
  28. Missing Gongs and Bells Off Maine, USCG Asks Public for Help
  29. Almost Six Years After Superstorm Sandy, Sign from New Jersey Washes up on French Beach
  30. On National Donut Day — Captain Gregory & the Birth of the Modern Donut

May 2018

  1. Navy Observes 50th Anniversary of the Mysterious Loss of the Sub USS Scorpion
  2. 50 Million Years of Whale Animation in One Minute
  3. Replica Stern-Wheeler MV Oliver Cromwell Sinks in Irish Sea
  4. On Memorial Day — Remembering the US Merchant Mariners of WWII
  5. Hidden Harbor Tour — Brooklyn Waterfront Past & Present
  6. Bones From Whydah Gally Shipwreck Not “Black Sam” Bellamy’s, After All
  7. Celebrating New Jersey’s Tall Ship A.J. Meerwald’s 90th Birthday!
  8. The REMUS 6000 & the Galleon San José, the Holy Grail of Shipwrecks
  9. Where is Fat Leonard? Long-running Navy Purchasing Scandal Gets Stranger
  10. Ex-USCG Lighthouse Tender Lilac Turns 85 with Free Birthday Cake!
  11. How Did a Cannon from HMS Bounty End Up in Scotland ?
  12. Sea Level, Ships, Rocks and Stupidity
  13. Mary A. Whalen’s 80th Birthday — Art Inspiration Day & Birthday Tanker Tours
  14. Volvo Racers Partying in Newport, Police Involved
  15. The 14th (or 19th) Foot — the Floating Feet of the Salish Sea Continues
  16. Queen Elizabeth 2 Opens as Floating Hotel in Dubai, At Last, Really
  17. John H. Harland Dies at 95, Author of Seamanship in the Age of Sail
  18. Updated: WHC Hidden Harbor Tour of Port Newark, Thursday May 17th
  19. Sailors’ Tattoos on Mother’s Day
  20. Gordon Bok — Sailor, Singer, Songwriter and Wood Carver
  21. Tall Ship Oliver Hazard Perry in Annapolis and Philadelphia
  22. Scientists Report Humpback Baby-Boom Off Antartica
  23. Guilty Plea in USS Fitzgerald Collision Court-Martial
  24. Tall Ships in Alexandria, VA — At and Beneath the Waterfront
  25. Not Just the LCS — EPF, Expeditionary Fast Transport Ships Deficient, As Well
  26. Ancient Mariners — Homo Erectus in the Philippines 700,000 Years Ago?
  27. When Keels Fall Off — Cheeki Rafiki & Assigning Blame
  28. Politics Creates Chesapeake Crab Crisis
  29. Bowhead Whales, Jazz Singers of the Sea
  30. Akademik Lomonosov — Floating Chernobyl or Nuclear Titanic?
  31. Of Eleven Littoral Combat Ships Commissioned, Zero Deployed in 2108

April 2018

  1. The Fourth Amendment vs the Penn. Fish and Boat Commission
  2. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry — Employment Opportunities
  3. Record Quantities of Microplastics Found in Sea Ice
  4. Tug & Barge — a New York Harbor Love Story
  5. Cape Horn Race — 500 Years After Magellan
  6. Update: Submarine Owner Peter Madsen Given Life Sentence in Murder of Kim Wall
  7. Toy Ship Adventure Sails On, Crosses the Atlantic
  8. More Details of John Fisher’s Loss Overboard in Volvo Ocean Race
  9. On Earth Day — What Dame Ellen MacArthur Learned Sailing Solo Around the World
  10. Philomena Cunk: When Horror-show Nelson Won the Battle of Trafalgar Square
  11. Maine Lobstermen and the Opioid Crisis
  12. Captain Tammie Jo Shults, Flight 1380 & Female Pilots in the US Navy
  13. Massive Deposit of Rare Earth Metals Found in Seabed Mud Off Japan
  14. Swarms of Basking Sharks Off Northeast Coast
  15. Cruise Ferry Viking Grace Latest to Install Rotor Sail
  16. Joseph Conrad on the Titanic – On Experts, Icebergs, Lifeboats and Biscuit Tins
  17. Seal Saturday — Seals in York and New York Harbor
  18. Wreck of Rare Advanced German U-Boat Found Off Denmark.
  19. Ferries, Forgotten Bicycles and Search and Rescue
  20. Searching for Shackleton’s Ship Endurance While Studying the Larsen C Ice Shelf
  21. Remembering the Wahine Tragedy in Wellington Harbor 50 Years Ago
  22. Monday Humor — Philomena Cunk on Life Aboard the Golden Hind
  23. Bulk Carrier Destroys Mansion on the Banks of the Bosporus
  24. Drones and the Volvo Ocean Race
  25. Return of the Golden Globe Race — A Retro Race Around the World
  26. Finger-Pointing and the Oil Spill in Borneo’s Balikpapan Bay
  27. Voices From the Deep — the Lost Mail from the SS Gairsoppa
  28. Tall Ships Challenge Gulf Coast 2018 Begins With Tall Ships Galveston April 5 – 8
  29. Is North Korea Adding a Nuclear-Armed Ballistic Sub to its Arsenal?
  30. Footprints of Ancient Mariners Along the Kelp Highway

March 2018

  1. Volvo Ocean Race: Vestas 11th Hour Dismasted, MAPFRE & Turn the Tide Damage Rigging
  2. Ghost Nets and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  3. Loss of Volvo Ocean Sailor John Fisher — Timeline
  4. Jeffboat, 184 Year Old Shipyard, Shutting Down
  5. John Fisher, Sailor on SHK/Scallywag, Lost Overboard in Volvo Ocean Race
  6. Ferry ‘Pink Dolphin’ Runs Up on Rocks in South Korea, 163 Rescued
  7. Undocking US Coast Guard Barque Eagle
  8. Over 140 Pilot Whales Die After Mass Stranding on Western Australian Beach
  9. Shipment of Next-Gen Container Cranes to Close Delaware Memorial Bridge
  10. TBT & Women’s History Month: Winnie Breegle, WWII WAVE and Code Talker
  11. Remembering the Five Sullivan Brothers of the USS Juneau
  12. Wreck of Five Sullivans’ Cruiser USS Juneau Discovered on St. Patrick’s Day
  13. Planking Underway on Ernestina-Morrissey Restoration
  14. Roboats in the Canals of Amsterdam
  15. Update: Alabama Shipwreck Not Schooner Clotilda, the Last Slave Ship
  16. Viking Ship Draken Harald Hårfagre — East Coast Tour 2018
  17. Kick ’em Jenny Kicking Up Again
  18. The Execution of Admiral Byng
  19. Groundbreaking Captain Paul Cuffe Park March 26, New Bedford
  20. DOJ Arrests $260 Million Superyacht “Equanimity” as Bizarre 1MDB Scandal Rolls On
  21. Secrets of a Frozen Ocean Wins Best Documentary at New York City International Film Festival
  22. WhalingHistory.org — Most Comprehensive Whaling History Database
  23. The New Newest Oldest Message in a Bottle Found in Australia
  24. On International Women’s Day — Remembering Mary Patten, Clipper Ship Captain
  25. When USS Lexington & USS Saratoga Attacked Pearl Harbor in 1932
  26. World War II Aircraft Carrier USS Lexington Found in Coral Sea After 76 Years
  27. Norwegian Billionaire Kjell Inge Røkke Giving Back to Help Save the Oceans
  28. Update: How Great a Threat to Mariners are Overboard Shipping Containers?
  29. The Cooperage at the Mystic Seaport Museum
  30. Status-6 — Putin’s Autonomous “Doomsday” Torpedo
  31. How It Went Down: The Sinking of the Polina Star III and Oyster Marine

February 2018

  1. Secrets of a Frozen Ocean — World Premiere : Across Arctic Ice by Hovercraft
  2. A Terrible Year for the North Atlantic Right Whale
  3. $40 Million Dollar Trove from SS Central America Displayed (& Tommy Thompson Is Still In Jail)
  4. Captain Lindsey’s Daughter Dido Elizabeth Belle, Lord Mansfield and British Slavery
  5. Remembering Robert Smalls – Slave, Captain of the Planter, First Black Captain in the US Navy & Congressman
  6. The Giant Shipworm Revealed — Not a Worm or an Eater of Ships, but Definitely a Giant
  7. Remembering Captain William A. Martin — Black Whaling Ship Captain From Martha’s Vineyard
  8. Was Homo Erectus the First Sailor? Did Ancient Sailors Tell Sea Stories?
  9. The Old Man of the Lake — Crater Lake’s Ancient Wanderer
  10. Ocean-Aged Rum and the Democratic Party Ticket of 1896
  11. ‘Round the World Rum on the Picton Castle
  12. Wild Brawl on Carnival Legend Interrupts 10-Day South Pacific Cruise
  13. Abandoned Yacht Sea Nymph Sighted by Volvo Ocean Racer
  14. Remember the Maine! 120 Years Ago Today
  15. Valentine Islands
  16. Cruise Missiles on Icebreakers and Destroyers without Ammo
  17. OE Wave Energy Buoy to be Deployed at U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site in Hawaii
  18. Sailing Oyster Sloop Priscilla at the Long Island Maritime Museum
  19. Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel — Water and Solar Powered Harbor Trash Gobbler
  20. The Bones of Black Sam Bellamy — Captain of the Whydah?
  21. Surprise Liquidation of Oyster Marine by Investors
  22. Pride of Baltimore II Funding Shortfall May Threaten Sailing Season
  23. No East Coast Tsunami — Another False Alert
  24. Melbourne Smith — Mariner, Artist, & Marine Architect
  25. Red Sails — Thames Sailing Barge Documentary
  26. Cleaning Up Harbors and Seas — From the Driftmaster to Drones and Beyond
  27. Paul Cuffee, African-American Captain, Shipbuilder & Shipowner
  28. South Street Seaport Schooner Lettie G Howard Heading for Lake Erie

January 2018

  1. Panther John Gomez & the Legend of Gasparilla
  2. Reviews for Evening Gray Morning Red on Pirates and Privateers Blog
  3. Watch Out for the Super Blue Blood Moon!
  4. A Winter Taxi Across the Hudson River, or a Rickenbacker Doesn’t Float
  5. A Sideways Launch — Shipbuilding in Faversham, Kent
  6. Guest Post by Robin Denny: The Five-Masted Full-Rigged Ship Preussen
  7. Clotilda & Cudjo Lewis — the Last Slave Ship & the Last Survivor
  8. Behold the Vampire Squid from Hell
  9. Fifty Years Ago Today — North Korea Seizes USS Pueblo
  10. Lifesaving Drone Drops Inflatable Rescue Pod to Two Swimmers in Australia
  11. Collision in Volvo Ocean Race Kills Chinese Fisherman, Nine Others Rescued
  12. Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin
  13. Longest Underwater Cave Identified in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
  14. What Did Pirates Read? Blackbeard, Captain Cooke, and Woodes Rogers
  15. The History Behind “Evening Gray Morning Red” — Shiplore NYC January 22nd, Melville Library
  16. Ex-Commanders Facing Criminal Charges for Fitzgerald and McCain Collisions
  17. How Damaging is a Condensate Spill? With Sanchi Sinking, We May Find Out
  18. Fire on Florida Casino Shuttle Boat Kills at Least 1 and Injures 15 in Gulf of Mexico
  19. Kilkea, Luxury Yacht Converted from Platform Supply Vessel — No, Not a Container Ship
  20. “Hero” Humpback Whales to the Rescue
  21. Royal Clipper — the Not Always Obvious Technology Behind a Modern Clipper Ship
  22. Restoring the Schooner Rhoda Mary
  23. Everett A. Pearson — Founding Father of Fiberglass
  24. Tanker Sanchi’s Condensate Cargo Still Burning — What is Condensate?
  25. Fire on Iranian Tanker Sanchi Risks Major Oil Spill
  26. Iranian Tanker & Chinese Bulk Carrier Collide in East China Sea, 32 Missing
  27. Ark in Urk Goes Berserk — Second Casualty in Two Years
  28. Quarterdeck Review of Evening Grey Morning Red by George Jepson
  29. Update: Looking Back at When New York Harbor Froze
  30. HMS Ocean to be Sold to Brazil
  31. Russia Reported to be Supplying Oil to North Korea; More Ships Seized
  32. Happy New Year! A Ballad by Cicely Fox Smith Sung by Larry Kaplan

2017 371

December 2017

  1. USS Shiloh — A Disturbed Sailor in Hiding on USS “Bread & Water”
  2. Classic Yawl Dorade Finishes Second in Division in Sydney Hobart Race
  3. The Hazards of Cold Shock — When It is Cold Enough to Freeze Sharks
  4. Record Breaking Sydney Hobart, LDV Comanche Winner After Protest
  5. Update: Rebuilding the Schooner Mary E. at Maine Maritime Museum
  6. Five More Bodies Found on Batavia’s “Murder Island”
  7. Christmas Night by C. Fox Smith, Adapted for Singing by Charlie Ipcar
  8. Underwater Christmas Trees
  9. When Hurricanes Hit a Hurricane Hole — the Aftermath of Irma and Maria
  10. Australian Submarine Lost For More Than a Century Finally Located
  11. On the Winter Solstice — Shortest Day & Longest Shadows, or No Shadow At All
  12. USCG Frees Sea Turtle from Floating Cocaine Bales Worth $53 Million
  13. Christmas at South Street Seaport
  14. Around the World in 42 Days — Francois Gabart Sets New Solo Round the World Record
  15. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s Superyacht Serene
  16. The Battle Against the Narco Submarines
  17. Volvo Ocean Racers Battered in the Southern Ocean
  18. Florida Shark-Draggers Might End Up in Prison
  19. Dressing for Tall Ships Sunderland — the Tall Ships Hat and the Belle Poule Pouf
  20. North Atlantic Right Whales Pushed Closer to Extinction
  21. Ian Farrier, Designer & Builder of Folding Trimarans
  22. Old Salt Blog Ranked in Feedspot’s Top 50 Oceanic Blogs and Websites on the Web
  23. 136 Year Old Steamer Jane Miller Found in Georgian Bay
  24. Evening Gray Morning Red on gCaptain’s Best Nautical Books Of 2017 List
  25. Chief Boatswain’s Mate Joseph L. George, No Longer the “Unknown Sailor” on USS Vestal
  26. High Tech Square Rigger Black Pearl, Inspired by Maltese Falcon
  27. Red Hook WaterStories — 1860: Slave Ship Erie Sold in Atlantic Basin
  28. Norman Baker — Adventurer & Navigator Dies in Plane Crash at 89
  29. 16 Year Ban on Fishing in Central Arctic Ocean
  30. Magnificent Panoramas from Tallinn Maritime Days
  31. American Diver Dies in Cocos Island Shark Attack

November 2017

  1. Building a Petrel Play Strip Kayak in One Minute
  2. 103 Year Old MV Doulos — on the Beach at Bintan
  3. Latest Ghost Ships Wash Ashore in Japan
  4. Captain James Colnett’s Barrel & the World’s Most Unusual Post Office
  5. Ghost Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys
  6. A Mariners’ Christmas — Mystic Seaport Wreaths and Lobster Pot Trees
  7. No Sign of Missing Submarine ARA San Juan, Reports of Explosion
  8. Remembering the Godmother of Thanksgiving — Sarah Josepha Hale
  9. US Navy May Have Located Missing Argentine Submarine
  10. America’s Cup Concept Yacht AC75 — Foils But no Keel
  11. Coconut Crabs, the Size of Dogs, Hunt Sea Birds
  12. British Sailor, Simon Speirs, Dies in Clipper Round the World Race
  13. Argentines Search for Missing Submarine ARA San Juan
  14. Solo Sailor François Gabart Sets New Record — 851 Miles in 24 Hours
  15. Wreck of “Chile’s Titanic,” SS Itata, Located
  16. The Mercy — Colin Firth as the Ill-Fated Donald Crowhurst
  17. Invasion of the Sea Pickles — Pyrosome Bloom in the North Pacific
  18. Does US Navy Can-Do, Never-Say-No Culture Promote Accidents?
  19. Swimming with Galápagos Green Sea Turtles
  20. Repost: On Armistice Day, Remembering the German High Seas Fleet Mutiny of 1918
  21. The Unsolved Mystery of the Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
  22. The Sad Saga of Greenings (CV24) in the Clipper Round the World Race
  23. Caribbean off Roatán Awash in Plastic and Rubbish
  24. Swimming with Sea Lions in the Galapagos
  25. Tour of Volvo Ocean 65 Team Brunel
  26. Bizarre Navy “Training Film” from 1967 — How to Succeed with Brunettes
  27. Just for Fun — A Whale and an Octopus in the Sky
  28. Zealandia — the Hidden Continent
  29. Update: Pen Hadow Returns From the North — First Vessels in Central Arctic Ocean Without Icebreaker
  30. How Dirty are Cruise Ships? Scrubbing Sulfur and Particulates

October 2017

  1. Hywind Scotland — The Story Behind the World’s First Floating Wind Farm
  2. Bloody Rain — Murder, Madness and the Monsoon : Free on Amazon & B&N
  3. Maryland’s Beloved Chesapeake Bay Crabs
  4. HMS Warrior — Steam Powered Frigate of 1860
  5. Saving Long Island Sound — Great Progress, More to be Done
  6. Two Sailors and their Dogs Rescued by Navy After 5 Months at Sea
  7. Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18: Episode 2
  8. Earliest Astrolabe Recovered from Wreck of the Esmeralda
  9. The Drunk Guy, the Stolen Skiff, the Ferry Terminal & the Illusion of Security
  10. Evening Gray Morning Red — Now Available in Print and as Ebook
  11. Volvo Ocean Race Sets off From Alicante, Spain
  12. Sultana Downrigging Weekend Tall Ship and Wooden Boat Festival — October 27-29
  13. The Coffee Table and the Nemi Ships — Remembering Caligula’s Great Pleasure Barges
  14. The Long Strange Voyage of Rimas Meleshyus
  15. Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race 2017 — A Great Race
  16. Stepping Stones Light & the Devil’s Stepping Stones
  17. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Loses Power in Newport Harbor
  18. MV Yara Birkeland, Autonomous Container Ship — Is This Really a Good Idea?
  19. Picton Castle’s Seventh World Voyage
  20. Sacré’ Bleu — Flavoured Oysters from France?
  21. Will the Tallship Providence Sail to Alexandria?
  22. Offshore Wind Energy to Power the Globe — First Floating Offshore Wind Farm off Scotland
  23. Fridtjof Nansen, Exploring the Arctic and Saving Refugees
  24. Remembering George Cuthbertson — Designer, Boatbuilder, & Entrepreneur
  25. The Great Chesapeake Schooner Race 2017 — Racing to Save the Bay
  26. Grim Discovery in Kim Wall Murder
  27. ROUGH SEAS! Bad Weather in Atlantic Ocean
  28. Volvo Ocean Race 20117-2018 Starting Soon, Future Races Uncertain
  29. More Disturbing Evidence in the Death of Kim Wall on the UC3 Nautilus
  30. Beery McTallShipFace? Nah — Beer Naming Contest Supporting Sunderland Tall Ships Festival
  31. The Hidden Harbors of Staten Island — October 15th
  32. Farming the Sea: Oystering at Mystic Seaport

September 2017

  1. 2011 Japanese Tsunami Sent Invasive Species to the US, But Not Radioactive Fish or Mutant Wasps
  2. In Hurricane Ravaged Puerto Rico & the Virgin Islands, RCCL’s Adventure of the Seas to the Rescue
  3. TBT Repost: Wanderer — the Slave Ship Flying a New York Yacht Club Burgee
  4. Is Puerto Rico Getting Enough Help? No Jones Act Waiver, Delays With Hospital Ship USNS Comfort
  5. US Coast Guard Sets Record for Drug Seizures at Sea Again
  6. The Hinckley Dasher — the Tesla of Luxury Yachts
  7. How Much Does a Cheap Lighthouse Really Cost?
  8. Danish Lighthouse Tender Gerda III & the Rescue of Danish Jews
  9. US Navy Turns on AIS — Useful Tool, Band-aid, or Both?
  10. Wreck of German WWI Submarine Found Off Belgium
  11. Kalmar Nyckel – A Tall Ship with a Broad Reach
  12. Evening Grey Morning Red at JC Book Festival — Tales of our Cities
  13. More Fallout from Pacific Casualties — Admiral and Captain Removed Prior to Senate Hearing
  14. Evening Gray Morning Red Available for Pre-Order
  15. Foamy Balls & Killer Fatbergs Washing Up and Beaches in France and the UK
  16. Why the UK’s New Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is Not a Nuke
  17. Vendee Globe, Volvo Ocean, & AC 2021– Are Foiling Monos the Future of Yacht Racing?
  18. Tampa Bay & the Disastrous Storm Surge That Wasn’t
  19. Post-Irma Caribbean Catastrophe — Navies, Cruise Ships and Private Boats Aid Victims
  20. Repost on 9/11: BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience
  21. Krill Joy — Drone Video of Blue Whale Feeding
  22. Escaping Hurricane Irma by Sea on RCL’s Enchantment of the Seas
  23. Record Breaking CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt Becomes Largest Container Ship to Call in Port of NYC/NJ
  24. Update: Death on the UC3 Nautilus — Madsen Claims Wall Killed in Accident
  25. Adventure, the Epic Voyage of a Playmobile Pirate Ship
  26. Gloucester Schooner Festival Parade of Sail, September 4, 2017
  27. Inflated Wing Sail — Rig of the Future?
  28. Can Pacific Bluefin Tuna Be Saved?
  29. Meade Gougeon — Innovator, Designer & Sailing Legend Dies at 78
  30. Stolen Coins, a Missing Wife, and a Sunken Catamaran — Stranger Than Fiction

August 2017

  1. Corpus Christi’s Replica of Columbus’ Niña Sunk by Hurricane Harvey
  2. Hurricane Harvey — Jon-Boat Navy to the Rescue
  3. We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us — Will the Navy Learn From Tragic Collisions?
  4. The Oligarchs’ Megayachts and the Statue of Liberty
  5. The Yachts of Alfred Mylne
  6. 25th Annual Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition on Sunday, September 3
  7. Guest Post: TankerTime: Do you have any Slovenians?
  8. USS McCain Collision Aftermath — Admiral Fired, Remains Found, Cyber Hacking Denied
  9. “Fat Leonard” Scandal Rolls On — Two Naval Officers Plead Guilty, Two Execs Sentenced
  10. Update #1: Sunken Submarine, a Headless Torso & Murdered Journalist
  11. Destroyer USS John S. McCain Collides with Tanker — 10 Missing, 5 Injured
  12. Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis Found in Philippine Sea by Billionaire Paul Allen
  13. Topsail Schooner Oosterschelde Wins Transatlantic Race
  14. USS Fitzgerald Update — Ship Returning Home, Sailors Disciplined, Navy Report
  15. Quadriga — Lloyd’s Register Joins Project to Build Sailing Car-Carrier
  16. Time Short to Save Battleship USS Texas
  17. Sailing Great, Edward Allcard, Dies at 102
  18. The Submarine is Raised but the Mystery Deepens — Where is Kim Wall?
  19. Mystic Seaport Antique & Classic Boat Parade 2017
  20. The Strange Saga of UC3 Nautilus — Sub Sinks, Inventor Held for Murder — Updated
  21. Pen Hadow’s Expedition to Sail to the North Pole
  22. TBT — Pinky, Albino Pink Dolphin in Louisiana, Doing Fine
  23. 4,000 Ton Steam Generator Sails Slowly Down the Hudson River
  24. Pilot, New Schooner Restaurant/Bar Opens in Brooklyn to Cheers and a Few Jeers
  25. When Crustaceans Attack — Did Sea Lice Chew Up Australian Teen’s Legs?
  26. How Whales Change Climate
  27. Not All Rescues End Well — the Death of Anne Dufourmantelle, Risk-Taker
  28. Navy Finds Captain “Ultimately Responsible” for USS Antietam Grounding in Toyko Bay
  29. Dredging Portsmouth Harbor — Cannon, Anchors, Bombs and a Skull
  30. Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft — ” I Will Not Break Faith” with Transgender Coast Guard Personnel
  31. Inaugural World Naked Sailing Day — Sounds Like a Bad Idea to Me

July 2017

  1. “Rebuilding” Bluenose II — 7 years & $24M
  2. Draken Harald Hårfagre: A Viking Long Ship at Mystic Seaport
  3. Undersea Discoveries in the Failed Search for MH370
  4. Christeen — Oldest Oyster Sloop in the US
  5. Captain Charles Fryatt: Executed for Ramming a U-Boat
  6. Movie Review — Nolan’s “Dunkirk,” Immersive Tour de Force, Incongruous Muddle, or Both?
  7. Update: Hudson River Kayaking “Accident” Was Homicide After All
  8. USS Constitution “Old Ironsides” Leaves Drydock
  9. What Could the Captain of the ACX Crystal See? Container Ship Visibility & Maneuvering
  10. Navy Testing Ship to Ship Texting with Signal Lamps
  11. Combi-Dock III Sailing from New York Harbor Carrying Windjammer Peking
  12. USNS Lewis B. Puller, First Expeditionary Sea Base on Maiden Deployment
  13. Orcas Acting Strangely, Part 2 — Stalking and Stealing Fishermen’s Catch in the Bering Sea
  14. Orcas Acting Strangely, Part 1 — Dissecting Great White Sharks
  15. In Honor of the Peking — Rolling Home to Dear Old Hamborg
  16. Fisherman Killed by a Right Whale, US Suspends Rescue Program Temporarily
  17. Windjammer Peking Loaded on Combi Dock II for Voyage Home
  18. 2017 Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival
  19. Beach Goers Form Human Chain to Rescue Family Caught in Rip-Current
  20. Update: Windjammer Peking Heading Home to Hamburg
  21. Larsen C Iceberg Calves — Trillion Tons of Ice, the Size of Delaware
  22. Mysterious Underwater Forest off Alabama Coast
  23. NYC City of Water Day, July 15th
  24. Keels in the Air at Équihen Plage — the Village of Overturned Boat-Houses
  25. Cyber-Security at Sea — XP on Carriers, Hacking Tridents & Spoofing GPS
  26. Return of the Steamer Sabino at Mystic Seaport
  27. Keels Falling Off — How Many More Sailors Will Die?
  28. Yacht Designer Frans Maas & One Crew Drowned, One Sailor Missing
  29. Happy 4th of July – A Toast to Madeira, the Wine of the Declaration of Independence and the Liberty Riots
  30. Guest Post : Falls of Clyde – 2017 Update
  31. Of Stinky Sea Monsters, Alien Space Balls & Dead Whales
  32. The WoodenBoat Show at Mystic Seaport

June 2017

  1. TV Vikings, Wrong-Side Rudders and the USS Fitzgerald Collision
  2. Doug Peterson, Great Yacht Designer, Dies at 71
  3. Coral Reefs and the Economic Costs of Global Warming
  4. HMS Queen Elizabeth Sets Sail for Sea Trials
  5. Emirates Team New Zealand Wins the America’s Cup, 7-1!
  6. USS Fitzgerald Ignored Warnings Says Container Ship Captain
  7. Remembering Jacques Cousteau
  8. Ben Finney and Hōkūleʻa’ — the End of a Voyage
  9. Battleship Texas, Barely Hanging on — Closes, Reopens, & Hunkers Down for Tropical Storm Cindy
  10. Hokulea, First Voyaging Canoe in 600 Years, Completes Three Year Circumnavigation
  11. Sailing-Time Warp in Bermuda — AC50 Foiling Cats and J Boats
  12. The USS Fitzgerald Is At Fault. This Is Why — Commentary by gCaptain’s John Konrad
  13. Conspiracy Theories Spring Up Around the USS Fitzgerald — ACX Crystal Collision
  14. Destroyer USS Fitzgerald Nearly Sank Following Collision — Seven Sailors Died Below Deck
  15. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2017
  16. Sail Boston 2017 — Parade of Sail
  17. Destroyer USS Fitzgerald Collides with Container Ship — Seven Missing
  18. Bikini Atoll and the Sunken Fleet of A Nuclear Graveyard
  19. Sailor Believed Lost Overboard from USS Shiloh Found Hiding in the Engine Room
  20. A Roomba For Lionfish — Underwater Robot Vacuum to Suck Up an Invasive Species
  21. Wreck of USRC/USCGC McCulloch Found — Sank 100 Years Ago Today
  22. Update: Flying Clipper, World’s Largest Square Rigged Sailing Ship, Launched
  23. OSTAR & TwoSTAR Races Battered by Storm — Dismasting, Sinking and Mid-Atlantic Rescues
  24. The Mariner’s Guide to the Port of New York and New Jersey
  25. Navy Retrieves Cannon from Perry’s USS Revenge off Watch Hill, RI
  26. China Opens Floating Solar Power Farm
  27. Onrust Returns to the Connecticut River
  28. World Oceans Day on the Lilac — Answering the Ocean’s Call: Stewardship of Our Ocean, Our Future
  29. The Log of the Record Run — Frederick William Wallace’s Ballad of the Effie M. Morrissey (Mary L. McKay)
  30. Bob Bartlett and His “Little Morrisey” — Voyage to Greenland
  31. Restoration of the Ernestina-Morrissey Continues
  32. Henderson Island — Pristine, Most Polluted, or Both?
  33. Windjammer Peking Bound for Hamburg in Late June on Combi Dock III

May 2017

  1. Alexander Hamilton’s Lighthouse
  2. Navy SEAL “Leap Frogs” and the Disturbing Number of Parachuting Deaths
  3. Last Mission of the USS Olympia — Carrying the Unknown Soldier Home
  4. Mayflower II at Mystic Seaport — the Restoration Continues
  5. The 35th America’s Cup Begins — Is it Still Relevant?
  6. How Dead is the Great Barrier Reef?
  7. New York Fleet Week 2017
  8. On the Historic USCGC Lilac — Great Shipwrecks of New York’s ‘Great’ Lakes and The Hidden Hulks of New York Harbor
  9. Shark Oil Barometers
  10. Repairing Sextants in the Age of GPS
  11. Listening to the Eerie Songs of Icebergs & Glaciers
  12. A Hornpipe for a Saturday — Come Ashore, Jolly Tar, With Your Trousers On
  13. Not Just the Rum that Kills You — Lead Poisoning in Sailors and Soldiers in the 18th Century West Indies
  14. Derelicts & Ghost Ships — Are Catamarans the New Lumber Schooners?
  15. Sailing Around the Globe, Part 2 — Clipper Round the World Race
  16. Sailing Around the Globe, Part 1 — Picton Castle
  17. USCG Cutter Tamaroa Reefed off New Jersey Coast
  18. On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection at Mystic Seaport
  19. The Problems with the USS Gerald R. Ford (Hint — It’s Not the Catapults)
  20. Berths Available for Oliver Hazard Perry Arctic Voyage
  21. Update: Indonesia Captures Shipwreck Thieves
  22. Irish Beach Reappears Almost Overnight After Being Washed Away 33 Years Ago
  23. Pioneering Spirit — Removing North Sea Oil Rigs
  24. Will Whistleblower Rewards & Huge Fines End Cruise Line “Culture of Crime?”
  25. Sailing on the Four-Masted Schooner Margaret Todd
  26. Do We Really Need a Flying Jet-Ski?
  27. DNA Study Suggests Women Were on Franklin Expedition, Or Maybe Not
  28. Captain and the Masseuse Escaped by Jetski — Lawsuit Over Sinking of Quest 1
  29. The Tragic Sinking of the SS Cap Arcona, 5,000 Concentration Camp Prisoners Killed
  30. Surfer Found Alive 13 Miles Off UK Coast After 32 Hours at Sea
  31. Viking Ship Draken Harald Hårfagre Seeks Maintenance Volunteers at Mystic, CT

April 2017

  1. Opening Oysters with a Marlinspike at the Deltaville Oyster Roast
  2. Chummy Rich – Maine Boat Builder
  3. The Hyper-Sub — Speedboat & Submarine
  4. Will Combi Dock 1 Take Windjammer Peking Home to Hamburg?
  5. In Newfoundland’s Iceberg Alley, Bergs Threaten Ships & Attract Torusits
  6. Sloop Clearwater Sailing to Washington to Fight for Clean Water
  7. NYC’s South Street Seaport Museum Kicks off 50th Year!
  8. Happy 85th Birthday Schooner Brilliant!
  9. Songs of Snug Harbor Sailors Release Concert
  10. Arlene — Only Second Named April Tropical Storm in History
  11. Three Ships Which Changed the World — Red Jacket, Rainbow and Great Britain
  12. Prepared Crew on Charter Boat Stardust Rescues Dumb Kayakers
  13. Report on Clipper Round the World Race Deaths Released
  14. Anti-Sea Sickness Glasses?
  15. Granny is Dead — Starving Orcas in the Northwest & Antarctic
  16. Mobula Rays — Making A Splash to Attract a Mate
  17. Oceans Beyond Earth — Does Life Swim in the Icy Seas of Enceladus?
  18. Tellurium — Choosing Between Green Energy and Underwater Mining
  19. Update: Reefing the USCG Cutter Tamaroa, ex-USS Zuni
  20. Simulator Training at Fort Schuyler for NYC Ferry Captains
  21. Ultrasonic Anti-Fouling — Better Than Paint?
  22. Norway to Build World’s First Ship Tunnel
  23. Dolloping Doubloons, Captain Pugwash !
  24. Graphene to Desalinate Seawater, or Maybe Not
  25. Update: New Home for World’s Oldest Clipper Ship, City of Adelaide
  26. Video Piracy and the Pirate Ship Queen Anne’s Revenge
  27. Delta Queen Moves Closer to Operation as Senate Approves SOLAS Waiver
  28. Search Continues for 22 Crew Missing After VLOC Stellar Daisy Sinks off Uruguay
  29. Hauling Draken Harald Hårfagre at Mystic Seaport Museum
  30. Whale Breaching Delays Basketball Game

March 2017

  1. NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown Returns After Record Deployment — 1,347 Days
  2. Joe Stead, R.I.P.
  3. Congratualtions to Hōkūleʻa’s Master Navigator Nainoa Thompson
  4. Giant Squid, Cocaine & the Footballer
  5. Alien Sailors, FRBs & LightSails
  6. Three Years Later, Raising the Sewol Ferry — the Tragedy Which Helped Bring Down Korea’s President
  7. Captain John Barry — the Other Father of the US Navy
  8. Admiral Paul Zukunft & the State of the Coast Guard — Billion Dollar Drug Busts and Geriatric Cutters
  9. Update: Coast Guard Report — Kayaks & NYC Ferry Collision, Enough Blame to Go Around
  10. First New Citywide Ferry Sets Sail For New York City
  11. US Navy — Take Bribes, Reveal Secrets, Get Caught & Convicted, Keep Your Pension, For Now
  12. Vendee Globe Racer Kito de Pavant’s Boat Hit Sperm Whale
  13. Museo Atlántico, Europe´s Only Underwater Sculpture Museum
  14. PT-305, U.S.S. Sudden Jerk, Comes Roaring Back, Sudden Jerks and All
  15. Humpback Whale Super-Pods?
  16. Remembering the MS St. Louis and the “Voyage of the Damned”
  17. Admiral & Eight Officers Arrested in “Fat Leonard” Sex for Secrets Scandal
  18. Schooner Kirk and Sweeney — the Rum-Runner Behind the Rum
  19. Maiden Voyage for Boaty McBoatface, the Yellow Submarine
  20. Chris Bertish — First Person to Cross Atlantic by Paddleboard
  21. Collapse of Malta’s Azure Window
  22. Jewel of Muscat — 9th Century Dhow Inspired by Tang Shipwreck
  23. She Sells Seashells by the Seashore — Remembering Mary Anning
  24. Proposed Budget Slashes Billions from Coast Guard to Fund Border Wall
  25. Secrets of the Sea — A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia
  26. Danny Spooner — Thames Bargemen, Historian & Folk Singer
  27. Will Royal Cone Snail Venom Help Solve the Opioid Overdose Epidemic?
  28. Incat Passenger/Car Ferry Francisco — World’s Fastest Ship
  29. When Peggotty Met Petunia Seaways — an iPad Assisted Collision
  30. William Liebenow, Decorated WWII PT Boat Skipper, Dies at 97
  31. Carnival’s First Ship — TSS Mardi Gras

February 2017

  1. African American Whaling Ship Captains: Part 2 — William Thomas Shorey, the Black Ahab
  2. African American Whaling Ship Captains: Part 1 — Absalom Boston
  3. 2nd Annual Kalmar Nyckel Foundation LEGO Shipbuilding Contest
  4. This is Windjamming — Maine Schooners Captured by Fred LeBlanc
  5. German Bomb Dredged up in Portsmouth Harbor
  6. Black History Month — Harriett Tubman & the Great Combahee Ferry Raid
  7. “North Into the Mist” — A Hovercraft on the Arctic Ice
  8. The Dragon in Winter — Draken Harald Hårfagre at Mystic Seaport
  9. Drama in Gibraltar — Sailing Yacht A Seized
  10. Seven Still Sailing in Vendee Globe
  11. King Harald “Blåtand” Gormsson, Bluetooth & the Jelling Stone Ship
  12. US & Soviet Nuclear Submarine Collision Kept Hidden Over 40 Years
  13. Black History Month — William Tillman and the Privateer Jefferson Davis
  14. Cancer-Causing Chemicals Found in Deepest Ocean Trenches
  15. Frederick Douglass — “I Will Take to the Water”
  16. Pods Strike Again — Norwegian Star Breaks Down in Tasman Sea
  17. Yale & Naval Academy Honor Admiral “Amazing Grace” Hopper
  18. All Royal Navy Attack Submarines Down for Repairs, or Maybe Not
  19. Over 400 Pilot Whales Beached in New Zealand — Rescue Efforts Ongoing
  20. More Illegal Wreck Salvaging — Japanese WWII Shipwrecks off Borneo
  21. Schooner Jobs — A.J. Meerwald & Lois McClure
  22. Riverboat Delta Queen & SS Badger — How Much Leeway Should Historic Ships be Given?
  23. The Fatal Shore, the Loss of the Herzogin Cecilie
  24. Newly Discovered Deep Water Coral Reef off Amazon River Threatened by Drilling
  25. “The Twentieth Century”: The Sailing Oystermen
  26. Death on the Great Barrier Reef — Laws of Chance or Deadly Jellyfish?
  27. “Black Jacks” at Noble Maritime in Snug Harbor This Saturday
  28. Free Online Course — Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds: Maritime Archaeology

January 2017

  1. Blue 52 — Which May or May Not Be the Loneliest Whale
  2. Only Total Naval History Nerds Should Even Try This Quiz
  3. Sinking of the Cutter Alexander Hamilton — the USCG First Loss in WWII
  4. Mike Peyton, the Picasso of Sailing, Dies at 96
  5. Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Still Not Quite Home
  6. Taiwan Operating World’s Oldest Submarines While Planning for New
  7. Winter Storm Breaks Up SS Palo Alto — the Strange Career of the “Cement Boat,”
  8. Master Storyteller of the Sea, Douglas Reeman, a.k.a Alexander Kent, 1924 — 2017
  9. Scottish MP Supports Rescue of the Falls of Clyde
  10. HMS Vengeance Trident Missile Failure and Possible Coverup
  11. Jumping Mako Shark in Gulf off Indian Rocks Beach
  12. Global Sea Ice at Record Lows as Temperatures Set New Record for Third Year
  13. Armel Le Cléac’h Wins the 8th Vendée Globe Singlehanded Round the World Race
  14. Vendee Globe — A Two Boat Race for the Finish Line
  15. Wilson & Roura — Oldest and Youngest Vendee Globe Racers Round Cape Horn
  16. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  17. NY Harbor Ferries & the Other “Miracle on the Hudson”
  18. A Week Aboard Oliver Hazard Perry
  19. Antarctic’s Larsen Ice Shelf on the Verge of Collapse
  20. Hudson River Sloop Clearwater & the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
  21. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Bound for Bermuda, Florida, Cuba and the Arctic
  22. Mystic Seaport Chantey Blast and Pub Sing
  23. Manatee Monday, Part 2 — Snorkeling with Manatees at Crystal River
  24. Manatee Monday, Part 1 — A Hopeful but Still Uncertain Recovery
  25. Seeking Captain/Educator for Schooner Amistad
  26. Mark Knopfler — So Far from the Clyde
  27. Navy Dolphins Training to Locate Threatened Vaquita
  28. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower — Three French Cops and a Unexpected Baby
  29. The Virtual Mayflower and the Drone
  30. Thar’ She Blows — Identifying Whales by their Spouts
  31. New Year’s Eve Whale In NYC’s East River
  32. Happy New Year! Go Jump in the Sea — Scheveningen New Year’s Dive

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