Sounds like a great evening for those in the New York area. Thanks to Al Cuenin for the heads up. From oceans to puddles, songs of the seas, lakes, canals, and the ships and sailors who sail them. A singalong evening aboard … Continue reading
Category Archives: Lore of the Sea
The Salem Maritime Festival starts this Friday. The tall ship Friendship of Salem will be joined in port by Schooner Thomas E. Lannon and Schooner Fame of Salem. The Friendship is a replica of an 1797 East Indiaman. The Thomas E. Lannon is … Continue reading
Over the last week, there have been no shortage of theories and often contradictory claims about what caused the damage to the hull and deck house of the MOL tanker M. Star while transiting the Straits of Hormuz. The initial … Continue reading
Happy birthday to the United States Coast Guard! Two hundred and twenty years ago today, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, created the Revenue-Marine, later renamed the Revenue Cutter Service. For nine years, until the re-establishment of the United … Continue reading
Race number two of the Tall Ships Races 2010 is now under way from Kristiansand, Norway to Hartlepool, UK. The tall ships will be on display in Hartlepool from August 7th through the 10th. Tall Ships – Hartlepool To learn … Continue reading
The lovely schooner A.J. Meerwald will be sailing out of Cape May, one of the loveliest towns in New Jersey, through early September. From the folks at Bayshore Discovery Project: Utsch’s Marina in Cape May will be the port-of-call for … Continue reading
Just over a week after a Dutch court gave 14 year old Laura Dekker permission to attempt to sail around the world alone, the teenager is setting sail. She will be sailing first from the Netherlands to Portugal with … Continue reading
The Duluth Tall Ship’s Festival which runs through today, has been a major success, attracting over 200,000 visitors. One of the biggest “stars” of the event was the HMS Bounty. The wait to get on the Bounty averaged between two and four … Continue reading
It is that time of year again. For twenty three of its twenty five years, the Discovery Channel, an American cable television channel, has celebrated this week as “Shark Week” with programming about sharks meant to thrill, terrify and no doubt, even inform its viewers. … Continue reading
Zheng He’s fleet of ships has been the subject of mystery and myth for centuries. Now a joint Chinese-Kenyan expedition to excavate where one of his fleet is thought to have been sunk in the 15th century may finally shed … Continue reading
Philadelphia’s tall ship, the barquentine Gazela has returned to to sea after five years of being limited to protected water sailing due to a damaged rudder. With a new rudder, the turn-of-the-century Portuguese-built barquentine set sail from Philadelphia bound where she … Continue reading
Lieutenant-Commander Colin de Mowbray Lieutenant-Commander Colin de Mowbray , who died on July 11 aged 65, was a helicopter pilot and veteran of the Falklands war; in retirement he sailed on, and organised, round-the-world yacht races. … Continue reading
On July 19th, we posted about the start of the Artemis North Atlantic Challenge when the Artemis Rowing Team set off from New York Harbor to break the 114 year old record for rowing across the Atlantic. The previous record had … Continue reading
In early July we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the return of the SS Great Britain to Bristol. Yesterday was a more somber anniversary – the 40th anniversary of “Black Tot” Day. Ceremony to mark ending of rum tot at … Continue reading
Last summer, the Sapphire Princess, a cruise ship operating on the South-West coast of Alaska, arrived in the port of Vancouver with a 70 foot long fin whale impaled on its bulbous bow. Wednesday, almost exactly a year later, … Continue reading
Two weeks ago the remains of an 18th century ship were found in the excavation of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. On Thursday Warren Riess, an archaeologist specializing in marine history, speculated that the ship was most likely a brigantine; … Continue reading
Photos of the damage to the VLCC MV M. Star. Click on the thumbnails above for larger images. Questions Swirl About Damaged Japanese Tanker … Continue reading
The HMS Investigator was found in remarkably good shape in only 11 meters of water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada’s western Arctic. The image to the left is from a lithograph of the … Continue reading
12th Annual West Coast Wooden Kayak Rendezvous The annual West Coast Wooden Kayak Rendezvous (R2KX) is the first weekend in August at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend. The event is free and open to the public (donations to … Continue reading
The Bristol Harbour Festival begins today and runs through the weekend. It is expected to attract over 200,000 people and is one of the biggest free events in the UK. In addition to Brunel’s SS Great Britain, on permanent … Continue reading