Wreckage Of USS Indianapolis, Sunk By Japanese In WWII, Found In Pacific London's Floating Bookshop on the BBC US Senate committee rejects most of Trump’s proposed cuts to NOAA Cuts reduced from $900 million to $85.1 million National Fisherman - The committee voted to fully fund NOAA operations, including ocean monitoring, fisheries management, coastal grants to … [Read more...]

Pioneer North Sea Divers: In the 1970s, deep sea divers were at the sharp end of the North Sea oil boom. Alex Last has been speaking to the former diver David Beckett, who wrote The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver, about his dangerous life working under the waves.  More on BBC World Service Brewing and seafaring are ancient human endeavors. Beer was first … [Read more...]

On April 19, 1912, surviving crew members of the RMS Titanic gathered in the small assembly hall of the American Seaman’s Friend on Jane Street. They held a memorial service for those lost just four days before, swallowed up by the freezing Atlantic. The building, the American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, was built in 1908 to accommodate the society’s … [Read more...]

Viking longboats on the Thames Oscar Adolf Wisting (6 June 1871 – 5 December 1936) was a Norwegian Naval officer and polar explorer. Together with Roald Amundsen he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. In later years Oscar Wisting was an active force behind the preparations and building of the Fram Museum in Oslo, a museum built to … [Read more...]

Mary A Whalen shared Lisa Kolibabek's post: Big news in the (New York) harbor today: the ship PEKING was loaded onto a heavy lift ship to be transported back to Germany. She will be reborn and have a great future. Thanks Lisa Kolibabek for making your photo coverage public, it's quite the tribute to the grand vessel who graced our city for many years at the South Street … [Read more...]

Lizzie Borden & The Old Fall River Line Everyone from presidents to swindlers sailed the Sound on “Mammoth Palace Steamers” in the heyday of the side wheelers and night boats. The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated between 1847 and 1937. For many years, it was the preferred route to take for … [Read more...]

You heard about Tall Ships, but have you met their cats? 11 majestic photos of the Tall Ships descending upon Boston BOSTON — Crew members and cadets from each of the visiting Sail Boston ships paraded through Boston Monday. Many wore their uniforms and some played music or carried the flags from their home nations as they marched into downtown on Seaport Boulevard and … [Read more...]