The SS Robin, built in 1890, is the last remaining steam coaster in the world. She will soon be moved to a custom built pontoon barge which will support the old ship and serves as space for a floating museum. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Lore of the Sea
Rough weather is reported to be delaying the French fishing boat that is on its way to rescue Abby Sunderland. Her sailboat, Wild Eyes, has been dismasted but has not lost its keel as was earlier reported. A … Continue reading
Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jacques Cousteau. It is hard to overstate Cousteau’s influence as an inventor, writer, filmmaker, explorer and ecologist. His first book, the Silent World, written with Frédéric Dumas in 1953, was a memoir which … Continue reading
A 25 foot long baby humpback whale washed ashore on Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York yesterday morning. There were no immediate signs of injury. A necropsy will be performed today to determine what killed the whale. In April, another … Continue reading
Abby Sunderland has been contacted by rescuers who report that she is alive and uninjured aboard her sailboat Wild Eyes in the Indian Ocean. The sail boat is afloat but has been variously reported as having been dis-masted and to have lost its keel. … Continue reading
The story is still developing, but there are serious concerns for the 16 year old solo sailor. Abby Sunderland Feared Lost at Sea Abby Sunderland, 16, who is attempting to become the youngest sailor ever to circumnavigate the globe, was feared lost … Continue reading
Sometime the only choice is to laugh or cry. Laughing is more fun. On the 52nd day of the Deep Water Horizon spill, satire from UBC Comedy. BP Spills Coffee … Continue reading
From the Bayshore Discovery Project: Delaware Bay Days, the free two-day folklife festival celebrating the Bay and the Bayshore region, returns June 12 & 13 with events in Bivalve, Port Norris and Mauricetown, NJ, with a schedule featuring new activities … Continue reading
A beachcomber found the wreck of a ship uncovered by winter gales on a beach in North Carolina. Originally though to the an 18th century Royal Navy ship, the wreck has now been identified as dating from the 1600s, making it the … Continue reading
Last week at the Shanghai World Expo, the SunTech Guosheng solarsailor, an innovative 31.5 meter solar-powered passenger vessel sailed on its maiden voyage on the Huangpu River. The vessels is owned by Suntech Power Holdings, the world’s largest producer of … Continue reading
Last Thursday, the mellifluous blast of the SS Normandie‘s steam whistle once gain reverberated across the piers of the South Street Seaport in New York. The blowing of the steam whistle celebrated the anniversary of the arrival of French luxury liner to New York seventy five years … Continue reading
Today is the second annual celebration of World Ocean Day! The only thing that is unclear to me is what and how we should be celebrating. From the World Oceans’ Day website: “In 2009 The Ocean Project started an annual tradition associated with … Continue reading
Julian Stockwin made a comment on Twitter this morning (what is the past tense of “to tweet?” by the way) regarding women on submarines. He noted that Norway has had women serving on submarines for decades. Indeed, the US … Continue reading
The schooner Rachel B. Jackson was on sale on E-Bay this morning. The minimum bid was $175,000 with a “Buy it Now” price of $225,000. The bidding ended at around 8:00 this morning EST without any bids having been … Continue reading
British explorer Robert Falcon Scott was born today in 1868. He died, along with his four companions, on the way back from the South Pole in 1912. They had successfully reached the pole, only to learn that they had been beaten … Continue reading
Though the pelican is featured on the state flag, by the early 1960s, brown pelicans had been pushed to extinction along the Louisiana Gulf Coast by DDT and other pesticides. In 1968 pelicans were reintroduction to Louisiana from colonies in … Continue reading
Women sweep top-sailor honors For the first time, the Navy’s four sailors of the year are women, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced Thursday. Roughead noted the achievement as part of a number of milestones for women in … Continue reading
I am not making this up. In the middle of May, a gentleman, whose internet nickname is Aquahound, found a camera in an underwater housing that had washed ashore in Key West. There were still photos and video on the memory card dating back to November of … Continue reading
A book trailer for Alaric Bond’s new book, True Colours which we recently reviewed. True Colours … Continue reading
I am a huge fan of the “sharp-built” privateers that came to be known as Baltimore clippers. They look fast sitting still and under sail, they are nothing less than breathtaking. The Lynx, a replica Baltimore clipper, which was … Continue reading