The fire-damaged car carrier Morning Midas sank while under tow in the North Pacific Ocean. The ship, with 3,048 vehicles aboard, including over 700 fully electric or hybrid electric vehicles, caught fire three weeks ago on one of the decks … Continue reading
Category Archives: Ships
Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is also the newest Federal holiday, signed into law in 2020. The holiday commemorates the arrival of emancipation in Galveston, Texas, … Continue reading
The car carrier Morning Midas, adrift off the coast of Alaska, is still burning, with the first salvage tug arriving at the scene on Monday, as reported by Splash. The tug Gretchen Dunlap arrived Monday afternoon with salvage personnel and has … Continue reading
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, an underway replenishment oiler, named after the late gay rights leader. The Pentagon is also reviewing changing the names of … Continue reading
The car carrier Morning Midas was on a voyage from China to Mexico when it caught fire on Tuesday in the mid-Pacific, some 300 miles southwest of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The ship was carrying 3,048 vehicles, including over 700 fully … Continue reading
On Saturday evening, shortly after the Mexican Navy sail training ship ARM Cuauhtémoc departed New York City’s South Street Seaport, Pier 17, on the East River, something went terribly wrong. The roughly 300′ long, steel-hulled, three-masted bark reportedly suffered some … Continue reading
On June 21, 1898, HMS Albion sat on the launching ways at the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company at Blackwall. The launching that would soon end in tragedy was also one of the first disasters to be captured on film. … Continue reading
A Facebook video by my friend Frank Hanavan showing him inserting a ship in a bottle (after the page break) got me thinking about, well, ships in bottles. When, where and why did sailors start putting ships in bottles? After … Continue reading
Last month, we posted about the first-ever confirmed image of a colossal squid in the deep ocean. Ironically, the first colossal squid caught on camera was anything but colossal. It was a juvenile of only about 1 foot in length. … Continue reading
On this, the 80th Anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day, the Liberation Convoy 2025 of five historic Norwegian veteran vessels, alongside partners from both Norway and the United Kingdom, is commemorating Anglo-Norwegian heroism on the North Sea during the … Continue reading
The Independent reports that a 57-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an altercation on a cruise ship in which another man, 60, died. Police rushed to the Southampton Docks on Monday morning to arrest the Exeter resident, after the cruise ship … Continue reading
An updated repost of an odd bit of history. One of the most interesting accounts of a sea serpent is that of the HMS Daedalus in 1848. When sailing in the South Atlantic, some 300 miles from the coast of … Continue reading
Given the economic damage caused by needless trade wars, it is worthwhile to recall the Empress of China, the ship that opened trade with China, the United States’ first trading partner. The new nation had won its independence from Great Britain but had … Continue reading
Eighty years ago on May 3, 1945, the German liner SS Cap Arcona, serving as a prison ship, was sunk by Royal Air Force fighter bombers in the Baltic Sea. Almost 5,000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps who were being … Continue reading
An F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet slipped off the hangar deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, deployed in the Red Sea on Monday. The tow tractor that had been moving the aircraft also went over the side in … Continue reading