A Boston Harbor Cruises sightseeing boat smashed into three other vessels Saturday afternoon after suffering a mechanical failure as it approached Boston's Long Wharf pier. According to the Coast Guard, the BHC passenger vessel Regency allided with two other Boston Harbor Cruises ships, the Rookie and Aurora, at the Long Wharf pier just after 10 a.m. Saturday. A third BHC … [Read more...]
Three Rescued from Boston Harbor After Tugboat Sinks
Three people were pulled from the frigid waters of the Boston Harbor cold but alive after their 55-foot tugboat sank suddenly Tuesday morning. The U.S. Coast Guard says that the captain aboard tug Emily Anne contacted watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Boston to report that vessel suffered a hull and was taking on water in the North Channel entrance of Boston Harbor about 5 … [Read more...]
John S. Damrell – Boston’s New 70′ Fireboat
With hurricanes and earthquakes sweeping the East coast this week, the Boston fire department is ready for delivery of it's newest and most capable, fireboat, the FireStorm 70. Ontario-based MetalCraft Marine completed work on the FireStorm 70 three weeks ago, and will be delivering the 70-footer down to Boston in a few weeks time. This latest delivery comes on the heels … [Read more...]
Maritime Monday; week ending July 10, 2011
Golden Age Comic Book Stories (original) – via theticketthatexploded HMS Implacable first saw service in the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally a French ship, captured in the last action of the Trafalgar Campaign in 1805. The stern gallery shown here is on display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in the UK. Intricate Ship Sterns: Art on the … [Read more...]
“Shipping up to Boston”
For all of you who need a jump start to break through that post-lunch food coma... here's one you'll recognize from the Dropkick Murphys. And while we're at it, we'd like to give a shout out to a few of our Southie friends, Captain Dan Sheehan, and Mass Maritime engineers Sean McGillicuddy and Dale Bleicken. … [Read more...]
LMSR Ablaze in Boston
This just in from the Boston Globe: Firefighters battled through smoke and heat to quench a blaze early this morning in the bowels of a Navy ship in dry dock on South Boston's waterfront. The fire in the steering gear room of the Sisler, a cargo ship, was reported just before 3 a.m., said fire department spokesman Steve MacDonald. Two firefighters and two civilians were … [Read more...]
Boston Ferry Collision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko1agnNqBPY The Above footage was taken by the Coast Guard during a post collision inspection of the Boston Ferry "Massachusetts". In an interesting post Panbo asks if AIS could have prevented the incident: Interesting that an intrepid Boston Globe reporter figured out that AIS transponders might have prevented two Boston ferries from … [Read more...]