The SSV Oliver Hazard Perry organization is looking for Licensed Mates. The 200-foot square-rigged tall ship Oliver Hazard Perry is Rhode Island’s official Sailing Education Vessel, the largest of its kind to have been built in this country in the last … Continue reading
Category Archives: Lore of the Sea
A week ago at about 2AM, at least 50 feet of the breakwater in Eastport, Maine collapsed into the inner harbor. Pat Donahue, a local fisherman and caretaker of the 1923 schooner Ada C. Lore, suffered minor injuries when the breakwater collapsed. The … Continue reading
Here is yet another case of the media taking a wildly inaccurate sets of claims about ships at face value. The news media has been touting a new study by the environmental group Friends of the Earth. The title of the … Continue reading
Tall Ships Philadelphia – Camden is being held on June 25-28, 2015 on the Delaware River. Normally I wouldn’t post about an event so far in the future, but the tickets for the event have now gone on sale. So … Continue reading
This feels like a bad joke, but sadly, it isn’t. In May of 2010, we posted about “Women Submariners – Pioneers Facing Many Challenges.” Of the various challenges we expected women on submarines would have to face, secret shower videos … Continue reading
In honor of the 73th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Originally posted December 7, 2010. The Original Pearl Harbor Attack Radio Emergency Broadcast from Washington DC Thanks to Dave Shirlaw on the Marine History list for pointing out the … Continue reading
After spending a month on dock at Colonna’s Shipyard in Norfolk, VA, the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown is now steaming up the Elizabeth River on its way back home to Baltimore. During World War II, eighteen American shipyards built … Continue reading
Since 1990, strange and wondrous new forms of life have been wandering the beaches of the Netherlands, walking on the wind. They are Theo Jenson’s “strandbeests,” self propelled kinetic skeletal sculptures of PVC and fabric. Now for the first time, … Continue reading
At least Sir Cloudesley Shovell had an excuse, not that he really needed one. He drowned with the other 1,400 sailors in the Scilly naval disaster of 1707. The navigators on the four warships that hit the Scilly’s Western Rocks lacked the tools … Continue reading
Since being sold by Cunard in 2007, the classic liner Queen Elizabeth 2 has been the locus of many plans and schemes, all of which have come to naught. Sadly, the ship has remained tied up at a dock in Dubai’s Port … Continue reading
Very interesting news. Gunboat, builder of high-end racing/cruising catamarans, has promised the G4, a new all carbon fiber 40 foot long catamaran, in early 2015. The drawings and video have shown C-foil daggerboards and T-foil rudders. C-foils allow “foil-assisted” sailing. The C-foils … Continue reading
For the last several years, and perhaps much longer, blocks of a rubber-like substance have been washing ashore on the beaches of Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The blocks are rectangular with rounded corners and … Continue reading
On Leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race, the Team Vesta Wind boat ran aground Saturday on a reef in the Cargados Carajos archipelago about 430 km to the northeast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. There are no reported injuries and the nine … Continue reading
In 2009, a humpback whale sighting in New York Bay was a surprise. In 2011, there were 5 whales sighted over the course of the season. By 2012, there were 25 whales sighted, then 43 whales in 2013, and in … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is one of the central creation myths of the founding of the United States. The story is based on an account of a one time feast of thanksgiving in the Plymouth colony of Massachusetts in 1621 during … Continue reading