Monkey Fist is a smack-talking, potty mouthed, Yankee hating, Red Sox fan in Maryland. In addition to compiling Maritime Monday, she blogs about nautical art, history, and marine science on Adventures of the Blackgang.
Heard on All Things Considered: The world’s largest Lego Titanic replica went on display Monday at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. It initially began as Brynjar...
More videos Jonathan Amos at the BBC reports that a team of scientists will attempt to locate the wreck when they visit the area to study the Larsen C Ice...
This Maritime Monday throwback was originally published April 5, 2010. Happy Easter!! You can find last week’s edition here » This Week’s Flickr Gallery » Developing Story: Australia Seeks...
Gastro Obscura: For several centuries, seafaring explorers remained relatively healthy by chugging spruce beer, a drink made by boiling the tree’s green tips. Voyagers recognized the evergreens were a source...
According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, The General J.K. Barnes was the first American purpose-built hospital ship, constructed during the Civil War. It was named after Surgeon-General...
Several fights broke out over the 10-day cruise, including two captured on camera showing guests throwing punches on a pool deck and a ship nightclub. (One) video showed people yelling,...
“Immigrants that Norway sent to the U.S. during that great migration wave of the 1870s were its poorest and least educated citizens” on NPR (via Bitter End blog) The 39-year-old...
Europa, later SS Liberté, was a German ocean liner built for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. She and her sister ship, Bremen, were the...
To Celebrate Friday the 13th, here is a list of 13 Old Sailor Superstitions! image: A Maritime Classic: The Pig and Rooster Tattoo U.S. Coast Guard Northeast News Release:...
ICP / International Center of Photography – A crewman signals another ship of an Allied convoy across the Atlantic; photograph by Robert Capa. More: American Masters; Robert Capa in Love...
1938 New England Hurricane 78th Anniversary; September 21, 1938 – On September 21, 1938, one of the most destructive and powerful hurricanes in recorded history struck Long Island and Southern...
After high winds and heavy rains brought by Hurricane Harvey, a mysterious sea creature with fangs and no face washed up on the shoreline in southeastern Texas. Preeti Desai, social...
The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum provides a sanctuary to 54 polydactyl (six-toed) cats. According to the museum, a ship captain once gave Ernest a white six-toed cat, and now...
Britain’s First General Mutiny on the BBC World Update: This past Friday, Dan Damon (broadcasting from the Southampton Docks) looked back to 1797 when sailors anchored in ships at Spithead...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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