British sailor Susie Goodall‘s Rustler 36 yacht, DHL Starlight, is reported to have been pitchpoled and been dismasted in the Southern Ocean, approximately 2,000 miles west of Cape Horn. Goodall was racing in the Golden Globe single-handed around the world race and … Continue reading
Rick Spilman
A U.S. Navy video from December 4th, of USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) sailors holding a flashlight vigil in honor of the former president and naval aviator namesake who died on Friday. George H.W. Bush Sailors Hold Flashlight Vigil for … Continue reading
A short video introduction by Antione Vanner to his latest historical naval adventure novel, Britannia’s Mission, set in 1883. Vanner’s “Dawlish Chronicles” series of naval adventures are set in the late Victorian era when technological progress was more rapid than at … Continue reading
Regardless of what one may think of the political career of the late President George H.W. Bush , who died recently at the age of 94, it seems worthwhile to remember his service as one of the youngest pilots in the US Navy during … Continue reading
Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, commander of US Naval Forces Central Command and of the US Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, was found dead on Saturday in his residence in Bahrain. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the Bahraini Ministry of Interior … Continue reading
The Trump administration has approved seismic testing related to oil and gas exploration off the US Atlantic coast. The testing could harm tens of thousands of dolphins, whales and other marine animals. The testing uses blasts from high-powered airguns to map the … Continue reading
As we creep toward winter and the weather gets cold and nasty, it feels like a good time to think of boats in warmer waters. One such boat is likely to be Jimmy Buffett’s new Drifter, a Surfari design by Ted … Continue reading
Earlier this month, Canada apologized for turning away the MS St. Louis filled with Jewish German refugees fleeing the Nazis in 1939. Canada was not alone in turning away the refugees. The United States and Cuba also refused the refugees … Continue reading
Yesterday, the House of Representatives, in a provision of a U.S. Coast Guard reauthorization bill, voted to grant a waiver exempting the riverboat Delta Queen from certain fire safety regulations. The bill, which now only requires the president’s signature to take … Continue reading
Recently retired Rear Adm. Mark C. Montgomery, ex-U.S. Pacific Command Director of Operations, had been nominated by the current administration to be an assistant administrator with the U.S. Agency for International Development. His confirmation appeared to be assured after Senate Foreign Relations Committee … Continue reading
On Sunday, two Ukrainian naval gunboats and a tug departed from the Black Sea port of Odessa, bound to Mariupol in the Sea of Azov. As they approached the Kerch Strait, connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, they were intercepted by Russian … Continue reading
This is a bizarre story which we have been following for, literally, years. It looked for an instant like it might be resolved and then things fells apart once again. Tommy Thompson — engineer, treasure hunter, alleged swindler, and the current … Continue reading
The U.S. Navy’s new supercarrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford has had more than its share of problems. The ship has a reported 23 new or modified technologies, a number of which have been problematic, to be kind. They are still working the bugs out … Continue reading
Andrew Fitzgerald, the last of the four-man crew of the Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG-36500, which rescued the crew of the SS Pendleton, has died at the age of 87. On February 18, 1952, the 36′ motor lifeboat set out from Station Chatham, Massachusetts, … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving! Today has been celebrated as a day of Thanksgiving in the United States on the third Thursday of November since 1863. The holiday is notionally based on a harvest feast in 1621 between Native Americans and Puritans who had arrived on the … Continue reading
Fourteen years ago, Hurricane Ivan destroyed an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy in the Gulf of Mexico. The wells associated with the platform have been leaking ever since and may soon become the largest recorded offshore spill. Federal officials … Continue reading
Of the more than 2,700 Liberty ships built during World War II, only two are still operational in the United States. One, the John W. Brown, now docked in Baltimore, may become homeless when its five-year agreement for free berthing at Rukert … Continue reading
As we posted yesterday, over last weekend, the Maritime Museum of San Diego celebrated the 155th birthday of the Star of India by taking her for a sail. Here is nicely done, roughly ten-minute, video by Barrett Canfield of Sunday’s sail on the grand old ship. The museum’s other … Continue reading
This weekend, the Maritime Museum of San Diego is celebrating the 155th birthday of the Star of India by taking her for a sail. The museums other ships Californian, San Salvador, and America are sailing along with with the Star of India. It has been five years … Continue reading
One year after the submarine ARA San Juan disappeared on a routine mission, with 44 aboard, the wreckage of the missing submarine has been located in 2,600 feet of water in the Atlantic. The submarine was located by Ocean Infinity, a US … Continue reading