The Wall Street Journal today has an article about the SS United States Conservancy, a group of individuals who fervently wish to save the SS United States.
I have the somewhat heretical view that the “Big U,” as she is called, is beyond saving. In some respects, she was doomed from the start. She went into service in 1952, the same year that Boeing began work on a plane that would be known as the 707, the plane that would make passenger liners obsolete. See our previous post – Twilight of the Ocean Liners – the SS United States.
The account in the Journal article doesn’t suggest much hope of saving the ship. It tells of her supporters taking trips out into the Delaware River where the ship is moored “to touch the hull,” yet also says that the group does not know what it would cost to dock the ship, quoting Dan McSweeney, Executive Director of the Conservancy, as saying, “It behooves us to do some research on that.”
After sailing into a bulk carrier earlier this month on her first day at sea after apparently dozing off, sixteen year old Jessica Watson has set sail once again on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe singlehanded. While she has received the 
Saint-Tropez Races Bid Summer Adieu
“The Leaving of Liverpool” is a wonderful sea song, capturing both the promise of a new voyage and the sadness of leaving loved ones behind. It was “collected” by 
Daniel Pauly has an article in this month’s New Republic “
In honor of our unexpected whale watching in New York harbor, we are taking a brief look at whale watching around the country this summer. It has been an interesting summer indeed. After staying off shore for several years, 
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There will be a 
Perhaps it is the thought that counts. Swiss lawmakers have decided against joining EU anti-piracy efforts because it would violate the country’s long-held tradition of neutrality. The land-locked country lacks a blue water navy so could not send a ship or ships to support the efforts but had considered sending thirty military support personnel. The Swiss navy does operate ten patrol boats on Lakes Konstanz and Leman. Thirty-two merchant ships in international trade fly the Swiss flag.
The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is hosting an Archeology Weekend tomorrow and Sunday. it will include presentations on Lake Champlain shipwrecks and feature some of their latest explorations including early steamboats, gunboats, sailing vessels and canal boats. There will be special demonstrations in the Conservation Lab, lectures and films and presentations on what threatens the lake’s collection of shipwrecks and what you can do to help protect and preserve underwater cultural resources.
We previously posted about the 
Depending on how you look at it, there is either good or bad news about the 
An update to our previous post –