The Zumwalt Class stealth destroyers will be the first US warship to have long-range hypersonic weapons installed. USNI News reports that the new weapons will be installed on the destroyers USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) and USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) during an … Continue reading
Category Archives: Ships
At the end of July, Ukraine and Russia signed “mirror” deals that allowed Kyiv to resume exports of grain through the Black Sea. The agreement was purported to allow millions of tonnes of grain, currently trapped in Ukraine by the … Continue reading
How’s your Monday going so far? Odds are, it is probably better than the 40-meter superyacht MY Saga that sank rather dramatically last week off the coast of Catanzaro Marina, in southern Italy. Fortunately, the Italian Coast Guard rescued nine … Continue reading
The US has sent two Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers – the USS Antietam and the USS Chancellorsville – through the Taiwan Strait in a demonstration of freedom of navigation through international waters. The 100 mile-wide (160 kilometer-wide) strait divides Taiwan from … Continue reading
The 110-year-old Battleship Texas is the oldest remaining dreadnought battleship and only one of six surviving ships to have served in both World War I and World War II. Over the last decade or so, the historic ship has been … Continue reading
Axioma, a $75-million superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian steel billionaire, was auctioned on Tuesday in Gibraltar, court sources said, in what is understood to be the first sale of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The 72.5-meter … Continue reading
Last January, a major underwater eruption of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Haʻapai (HTHH) volcano caused a tsunami that hit the Pacific country of Tonga. Now, the BBC reports that a robot vessel, the 12m-long Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) Maxlimer, has returned from … Continue reading
For more than 30 years, participants in the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race have been “racing to save the bay.” The race is intended to promote public awareness of the Chesapeake Bay’s maritime heritage and to encourage the preservation and … Continue reading
One of the worst droughts in European history has exposed a graveyard of sunken German warships filled with explosives and ammunition in the Serbian section of the Danube River. More than 20 hulks have emerged near the port town of … Continue reading
The Washington Post reports that a federal judge rejected plea bargains for a Navy engineer and his wife who allegedly tried to sell military secrets, saying the prison terms called for by the deals were too lenient for a couple … Continue reading
Eighty-one years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the identification of fallen US sailors is ongoing. Recently, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of two sailors missing in action since Dec. 7, 1941. Petty Ofc. 2nd Class Claude … Continue reading
British divers have located the wreck of the USS Jacob Jones in over 100 meters of water, 40 miles off the Isles of Scilly. The ship, a Tucker Class destroyer, was sunk during World War I by a German U-boat … Continue reading
Good news. The Bangor Daily News is reporting that the restoration of the ex-presidential yacht Sequoia will begin soon in Belfast, Maine. We first posted about the saga of the ex-presidential yacht in 2016 when Delaware judge Sam Glasscock describes … Continue reading
Over 750 years ago, a medieval ship loaded with a cargo of limestone, carved gravestones, and mortars for grinding, sank off the Dorset coast a mile away from the nearest harbor. Now the so-called Mortar Wreck has been granted the … Continue reading
Last week, we posted about how the 417-foot-long, three-masted sailing yacht built for billionaire Jeff Bezos was towed out of the Oceanco shipyard in Rotterdam under the cover of darkness and moved to a shipyard in Greenport. The three masts … Continue reading
After months of controversy, the 417-foot-long, three-masted sailing yacht built for billionaire Jeff Bezos slipped out of the shipyard in Rotterdam under the cover of darkness. At 3AM on Tuesday, the Oceanco shipyard towed the yacht to the Greenport shipyard. … Continue reading
Last April, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal reported that the 137-foot Denis Sullivan — the world’s only replica of a 19th-century three-masted Great Lakes schooner — will remain docked at Discovery World again this year, according to museum President and CEO … Continue reading
The handysize bulk carrier Razoni was one of roughly 80 international vessels that have been stranded in Ukraine for more than six months by the ongoing Russian invasion. Now, the Sierra Leone-flagged vessel has sailed from the port of Odesa … Continue reading
NavyX’s new maritime sandbox, XV Patrick Blacket, was christened today in Portsmouth, UK with the help of a robotic dog. You might well ask, what is NavyX? What is a maritime sandbox? And what about the robotic dog? Navy X … Continue reading
The USS Essex, a Wasp-class Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD), recently loaded a new 15,000-pound 3D printer, just prior to departing to participate in the multinational Rim of the Pacific exercise underway at Hawaii and California. The amphibious assault ship will … Continue reading