It’s been 70 years since Japan attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, the single catastrophic event that launched the United States into World War II. Today we remember [...]
sussex / hastings: blessing of the sea – Anything Goes England; vintage postcards; LARGE Fog Signalling at Sea – A postcard from “The Star Series – G.D. & D., London”.- [...]
Today marks the 36th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the Great Lakes freighter that sank in a strong gale on eastern Lake Superior resulting in the [...]
Some of you may remember a cartoon which appeared during World War I, a drawing showing an inquisitive stranger talking with the gateman at a railway crossing. The gate was [...]
After 11 days of survey and sampling using both the latest in technology and physical sampling, no oil remains were found on the sunken World War II tanker, SS Montebello. [...]
The dreaded cat ‘o nine tails, also known as the “captain’s daughter”, was finally outlawed by the U.S. Navy 161 years ago today. Weighing approximately 13 ounces and consisting [...]
The UK’s National Archive says it is releasing the records of 1 million Merchant Navy seafarers serving from 1918 to 1941 who were part of Churchill’s often forgotten ‘fourth service’. [...]
Captain Henry Morgan may be more famous for the Rum named after him but to the marine archaeologists diving wrecks off Panama the find has less to do with parties [...]
The Scuttlefish brings us a collection of Diving Helmets from the past in their post Dive, dive, dive! (A Gallery of Helmet Art). Check it out!
This week marks the 23th anniversary of the worst offshore oil disaster in history. The Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. [...]
In a long-anticipated milestone in the effort to save and redevelop the legendary ocean liner SS United States, the SS United States Conservancy has announced that the national nonprofit organization [...]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE:NOC) Shipbuilding sector in Newport News, Va., will kick off a year-long celebration of its 125th anniversary beginning [...]
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