What is the definition of misery? Answer: Seasickness One of the first questions I get asked when a landlubber finds out I work at sea is, “Do you get seasick?” In...

The U.S. Coast Guard, as a public service to holiday gift shoppers has announced its recommended USCG Approved gifts for 12 nautical days of Christmas… and while they forgot to...

Will 3D Printing Change The World As We Know It? by Brad Hart Imagine you’re steaming across the Pacific Ocean on a container ship on a great circle course to the...

This video, shot by Lorenzo Fonda and titled “ten things I have learned about the sea“, shows footage he shot while on the vessel “Portland Senator” en route from Lost...

Photo courtesy NASA Note: This week’s interesting ships are reposted and updated from gCaptain’s archives. When one thinks of a NASA ship, it’s generally not the seagoing type that pops...

Still looking for something to do this Independence Day weekend? The S. S. JOHN W. BROWN is one of two still operational Liberty ships from World War II and was launched...

The Navy knows it has a drinking problem.  Fleet Week means vomit in the streets and evenings that sailors best not remember. The official Pier Pressure app combines a game...

ship grounded after a storm in 1987; Blyth beach, Northumberland, UK photo by paulbunker  

NC Wyeth Illustrations for The Ladies Home Journal 1920-31 N. C. Wyeth The Courtship of Miles Standish by Longfellow (1920) The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem...

HMS President (1918) Formerly HMS Saxifrage, was a Flower-class anti-submarine Q-Ship completed in 1918, and is one of the last three surviving warships of the Royal Navy built during the...

 The steam ship President (1,536 × 1,116 pixels) (1,536 × 1,117 pixels)  caption: “The Steam Ship President, The Largest in the World. Lieut. Roberts R.N. commander on her last voyage...

Christopher Columbus; Bahamas Centennial of the Opening of Japan by Matthew Perry (991 × 640 pixels) 1913 10 cent Parcel Post; Steamship & Mail Tender Steamboats were carrying mail as...

Trawler, designed by Icelandic artist Stefán Jónsson, engraved by Thomas De La Rue & Co., Ltd., and issued by Iceland on October 12, 1950 airmail stamp depicting views of the...

Jules Verne Stamps; First Day Covers ; France—3 June 1955 Robert Fulton; 1765-1965 American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.  In 1800,...

Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio (1587) – original file (1,496 × 1,077 pixels) Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in...

This week’s Maritime Monday is a re-run. Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1117 x 738) Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions EASTWIND (WAGB-279); Antarctic Operation Deep Freeze (1955-56); PENGUIN DRILL TEAM Soviet postage stamp, 1976,...

On August 18, 2010, the South Korean fishing vessel, Oyang 70, capsized and sank while working in the New Zealand´s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), resulting in the loss of six...

Anna-Myrle and Edward Rowe Snow of Winthrop, Maine, load the Flying Santa plane 1940 with gifts to drop off to US Coast Guard families along the East Coast.

 Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien; 1958 German war film portraying the combat career of World War...

The British Isles are an archipelago measuring about 900 miles from top to toe, with a history tied inextricably to the waters that surround them. This image from circa 1887...