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.
Vladimir Nabokov on Joseph Conrad: “I cannot abide Conrad’s souvenir shop style and bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist clichés.” The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History SS Peralta...
Death Ship (Avco Embassy, 1980) It is a tried and true cinematic gimmick to trap adults in a confined space so they must face their past and confront the present. ...
SS Henry B. Smith – Great Lakes freighter built in 1906 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio USA – image via wrecksite.eu – The Associated Press Duluth...
Tops Comics: Don’t Bother to Dry Off; Consolidated Book (Lev Gleason) 1944 Archaeology pioneer and treasure hunter E. Lee Spence holds two portholes from the SS Ozama Smuggler’s Shipwrecked Steamer...
The Princess Margaret, an SR-N4 hovercraft at the Hovercraft Museum at Lee on the Solent, England (1,200 × 563 pixels) The museum has a large collection of over sixty hovercraft...
Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1117 x 738) Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions Der Eisbrecher Stettin im Nord-Ostsee Kanal (Kiel Canal) (4,320 × 3,240 pixels) Launched: 7 September 1933 – Out of service: 1981...
USCGC Northland; Greenland, circa 1944 “Oh the sea, Oh the sea, the wide bounding sea! Long may it roll between England and me!” Irish Folk Song EASTWIND (WAGB-279); Antarctic Operation...
Adventures Into The Unknown (ACG, 1954) Third in line to the British throne, Prince Harry of Wales, is visiting the former colonies this week. After laying a wreath at Arlington...
Tora! Tora! Tora! Was a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatized the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Directed by Richard Fleischer and featuring an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam,...
Lasar Segall‘s work was considered “degenerate art” by Nazi Germany and and could no longer be shown in exhibitions. Segall created one of his most famous artworks in 1939, known...
Sailors in Munich SMS Seydlitz 25,000 ton battlecruiser of the Imperial German Navy built Blohm & Voß, Hamburg, commissioned May 1913 At the Battle of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915,...
a selection of picture postcards produced within each of the belligerent nations during the wartime Segelschiff SMS Nixe 1892 The domestic clamor for a German fleet only grew with German...
Sail-Frigates Eckenförde (captured Danish SMS Gefion; 1852) and Deutschland 1849 Reichsflotte The Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) was the first all-German Navy, founded on 14 June 1848. The German Confederation, founded in...
On the afternoon of 21 May, 1944, while Army Ordnance troops loaded mortar ammunition on the fantail of LST-353, there was an explosion… In May of 1944, preparations were underway...
The musket ball pierced Nelson’s coat just below the epaulette. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Bloodstained relic of English naval history leaves British shores for the first time since...
Wreckage of the USS MAINE 3,000 × 2,295 US Navy battleship that sunk after a mysterious explosion in Havana Harbor Havana, Cuba, 15 February 1898 – see also Sent to...
“The Irish Rover” is an Irish folk song about a magnificent, though improbable, sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end. + VIDEO: The Pogues with The Dubliners On the fourth...
Gentlemen prefer blondes… but blondes don’t like cripples “The Yanks are ‘lend-leasing’ your women. Their pockets full of cash and no work to do, the boys from overseas are having...
Afghanistan details: – Egyptian War Ship – King Richard III Ship – Danish War Ship – Norman Snekkar – – Grecian Bireme A – Grecian Bireme B – Phoenician Merchant...
US 1934 Maryland Tercentenary “The Ark & The Dove” The Ark – a 17th century English ship which carried emigrants bound for the new Maryland colony during the pioneering expedition...
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