I would like to thank all those who came out last night to the Working Harbor Committee’s presentation of “Sailing Ships at Work – Past, Present and Future.” It was a fun evening and gratifying that the presentation was so well received. In … Continue reading
Category Archives: Lore of the Sea
First it was the White House Easter Egg Hunt – cancelled due to the sequestration. Now it appears that Navy Fleet Weeks in ports around the country, traditionally held each spring, may fall victim to the automatic budget cuts as … Continue reading
In Big Tub Harbour, just off Canada’s Georgian Bay, near the entrance to Lake Huron, lies the wreck of the schooner Sweepstakes, which sank in 1885. She is 119′ long with a 23′ beam and a 10′ depth of hold. Just twenty feet below the surface, … Continue reading
On this the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the USS Thresher, we are reposting an article from three years regarding the link between the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic and the US Navy’s secret search for the lost submarines, USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion. … Continue reading
Fifty years ago today, the nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep diving tests in the Atlantic off Massachusetts with a loss of 129 officers, crewmen, and military and civilian technicians. The sinking of the submarine is considered to be a watershed event in the … Continue reading
Ships are the most energy efficient means of moving good across the surface of the earth. Goods moved by ship have the lowest carbon foot-print of goods moved by any other means. At the same time, modern ships are significant … Continue reading
The third of three wonderful videos shot by William Collinson sailing on the Bark Europa between the end of December 2012 and the early part of January 2013. The Drake … Continue reading
The second of three wonderful videos shot by William Collinson sailing on the Bark Europa between the end of December 2012 and the early part of January 2013. Antarctica … Continue reading
Next Wednesday, April 10th, from 6-9 the Working Harbor Committee is presenting Sailing Ships at Work – Past, Present and Future. If you are in the New York area be sure to stop by. (Click on the banner to the … Continue reading
Last week we posted, “Vancouver Maritime Museum, Stephen Colbert & Whale Bone Porn,” about a controversy over an exhibit at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Tattoos & Scrimshaw: the Art of the Sailor. One Vancouver mother and schoolteacher was offended by the erotic depictions … Continue reading
Winds gusting to near hurricane strength broke the moorings on the already damaged cruise ship Carnival Triumph at her berth at BAE Shipyard in the Port of Mobile, Alabama at 1:45 p.m. CT on Wednesday. The cruise ship, which had recently been … Continue reading
The first of three wonderful videos shot by William Collinson sailing on the Bark Europa between the end of December 2012 and the early part of January 2013. Europa … Continue reading
Toward the end of last year, we posted about the the battle over the continued operation of the SS Badger, the last coal-fired passenger vessel operating on the Great Lakes. To her admirers she is a national treasure. To her detractors she … Continue reading
An April Fool’s post that is no joke. At 12:27 a.m. on April 1, 2010, in the Indian Ocean west of the Seychelles, three Somali pirates in a small skiff attacked what they thought was a merchant vessel. It wasn’t. They … Continue reading
A new exhibit has just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. While perhaps not as controversial as the exhibit at the Vancouver Maritime Museum which we posted recently, it includes many whales bones, but, at least to our knowledge, … Continue reading