A recent news item brought to Gilligan’s Island, a situation comedy broadcast on US television for three seasons in the 1960s. The premise of the program was that a small tourist boat on a “three-hour tour” was swept away in … Continue reading
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Five sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt appear to have contracted the coronavirus for a second time and have been taken off the ship. The carrier is currently tied up in Guam after an outbreak of the virus infected … Continue reading
More evidence that the first travelers to the Americas may have been sailors. The classic theory of the arrival of early people in North America was the Clovis model. The theory was that early humans migrated to North America by … Continue reading
Happy Labor Day! While many nations celebrate workers on May 1st or May Day, US and Canada both celebrate workers rights in early September. It seems a good time to look at the nautical origin of the word “strike,” referring … Continue reading
The timeline for when humans first took to the seas keeps getting moved back. A few years ago, stone tools were found on the island of Crete which were dated to 130,000 years ago. Likewise, stone implements on the island of Flores … Continue reading
In honor of the holiday season, a repost from 2012. We recently learned that good Saint Nicholas, long associated with Christmas and gift-giving, is also the patron saint of ships and sailors. The St. Nicholas Center notes: “Many ports, most … Continue reading