Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Cynthia Oldham — Coast Guard
Andrew Haines, a World War II veteran who emigrated from Norway as a child, wanted a Viking funeral. He realized that building a pyre on a full sized Viking ship would be impractical, so Haines decided to build a small replica to carry his ashes. He ultimately built five small boats before deciding on a 54″ model. Andrew Haines, died in late August at age 89 and the US Coast Guard, Station Atlantic City, helped give him the Viking funeral that he had dreamed of for years. On September 29th, Andrew Haines ashes were set into his tiny Viking ship and set ablaze three miles offshore. As reported by the Navy Times:
In September, we posted about the discovery of one of two missing ships from the 
Just over a year ago, I was surprised — shocked might be a better word — to hear of a play about a shipyard. 
In 2011, we 
The oceans could indeed be older than the sun. A team of scientists from the University of Michigan now believe that up to half the water on our planet is older than the sun. Earlier theories had assumed that interstellar ice particles evaporated with the formation of Earth and reformed later to create the oceans. Now, these scientists have calculated that if the old theory was valid, that the amount of deuterium found in terrestrial water would be far lower than it is. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen that has an extra neutron attached. The only explanation they have found for the higher levels of deuterium observed is if more of the interstellar ice particles helped form the world’s oceans directly. They calculate that as much as 50% of the earth’s water might come from these ice particles, which have higher levels of deuterium. This might suggest that water on distant planets is far more common than previously thought.
The schooner yacht 
The main mast on the 
Two years ago 
The topsail schooner 
The passenger steamer 
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