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Welcome to this 117th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 67 here. (Published 16 July 2007) You can find last week’s edition here.

The General Slocum was a steamship that set sail in 1891. She caught fire wile traveling down New York’s East River on June 15, 1904. The Captain of the

Tat Communications has a map of their subsea offerings. We’ve shown similar maps before but this one is interactive! Click on the image above to view in

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 116th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 66 here. (Published 09 July 2007) You can

Cadet Edward Pollard on the TSES Recent news article claim steps in obtaining agreements in placing maritime academy school students aboard merchant ships for

The shipping industry is currently the most profitable segment of the market with exploratory driling heading the way. The woldfleet of drillships alone will

The Telegraph tells us of A spy plane designed by Nasa will help track whales in the Mediterranean to try to prevent collisions between the giant mammals and

The following is posted by Fred Fry: (Note: I am still in Finland) Welcome to this 115th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 65 here.

Shipwreck World tells us: The HMS Ontario, a British warship built in1780 has been discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Shipwreck

*Red denotes a successful attack. Yellow marks an attempt This Google Maps mashup, brought to gCaptain’s attention by wired’s blog monkeybites,

Gordon & Elias, L.L.P., represents clients in all aspects of personal injury and wrongful death. They are a boutique law firm with a nationwide practice

Photo By dmcl Sailing the MV Rust Bucket: 10 Reasons Why Rowing The Pacific… Alone With the help of John’s favorite tech podcaster Leo Laporte of

Photo by Timothy Hamilton The NYTimes reports: Since mid-2006, a confluence of powerful forces — from a shortage of ships to the seemingly unquenchable

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 114th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 64 here. (Published 18 June 2007) You can

Since 1992, June 8th has been World Ocean Day. It is a well known fact that the worlds oceans cover more then 70% of our planet and June 8th

Model by Wood Wings 50 Years ago today the most infamous vessel of the Great Lakes was launched. Farlane writes: It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon on June

The Juneau Empire is reporting: A cruise ship scraped the bottom of the Tracy Arm fjord Wednesday morning, forcing its crew to cut short its trip and call the

(Ed. note: Wired . com is featuring a post comemerating the Battle of Midway) Japanese fleet carrier Hiryu is seen shortly before the United States Navy sank

(Note: This article was originally published in Dec 2007) We have taken a look at piracy in the Strait of Malacca and showed you how criminal organizations

We experienced a slight server glitch this morning. This isn’t the first time this has happened but I’m not disappointed with our 8 month strech of