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Sunday, January 12, 2020
Sailor Slang: What does it mean to “Meet In Snug Harbor”?
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Sailor Slang: What does it mean to “Meet In Snug Harbor”?

Often times mariners are heard joking to each other that “They will meet up again in Snug Harbor“.  What does this mean? Well, Snug

January 12, 2020
Total Views: 529

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The spine of Volume 1 of the USS Rodgers logbooks is pictured at the National Archives building in Washington
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Icebound: The Climate-Change Secrets of 19th Century Ship’s Logbooks

By Andrew R.C. Marshall OXFORD, England, Dec 11 (Reuters) – On November 14, 1881, an American called George Melville limped across a frozen delta in

December 11, 2019
Total Views: 139

Sunday, May 12, 2019
uscgc citrus
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Limitations of Crew and Equipment: Almost Sinking in Ouzinkie Narrows Alaska

Life onboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Citrus (WLB 300), a 180 ft. ocean-going buoy tender was normal on Monday morning, 26 February 1979. Citrus was underway,

May 12, 2019
Total Views: 295

Friday, August 31, 2018
Bankrupt Titanic Collector Is Selling Everything
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Bankrupt Titanic Collector Is Selling Everything

by Dawn McCarty (Bloomberg) The story of the doomed luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic proved so alluring that divers were searching for the wreck seven decades after

August 31, 2018
Total Views: 570

Friday, June 1, 2018
british trent disaster
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Nine Seafarers Killed in Fireball Remembered on 25th Anniversary of British Trent Disaster

UK-based maritime welfare charity Sailors’ Society has commemorated the 25th anniversary of the British Trent disaster by laying a wreath underneath the

June 1, 2018
Total Views: 681

Friday, February 2, 2018
Brooklyn Navy Yard Navy Warship Dry Docking
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Historic Shipyard Turns From Ships To Technology

by David M. Levitt (Bloomberg) — America may never recover its glory as a manufacturing powerhouse, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard is doing what it can,

February 2, 2018
Total Views: 43

Wednesday, October 25, 2017
earliest known astrolabe
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500-Year-Old Astrolabe May be ‘Earliest Marine Navigation Tool’ Ever Discovered

Researchers at the University of Warwick have identified what is believed to be the earliest known marine navigation tool ever discovered.  The artifact,

October 25, 2017
Total Views: 110

Thursday, April 20, 2017
USCGC STRATTON Racing Stripe
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How The Coast Guard Earned Its Orange And Blue Stripes

by Diana Honings – In the modern history of the United States Coast Guard, there has been a rapid shift from mistaken identity to a brand

April 20, 2017
Total Views: 8130

Wednesday, November 23, 2016
HNLMS Kortenaer
Maritime News

Three Countries Unite To Solve Nautical Mystery

(TheGuardian) Indonesia has agreed to work with the Netherlands to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several second world war shipwrecks

November 23, 2016
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Dutch Hope Indonesia Will Help Solve Mystery of Missing WWII Battleships
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Dutch Hope Indonesia Will Help Solve Mystery of Missing WWII Battleships

By Anthony Deutsch and Fergus Jensen AMSTERDAM/JAKARTA, Nov 18 (Reuters) – The Dutch prime minister on Friday called the disappearance of the wreckage of

November 18, 2016
Total Views: 16

Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Seventeen Fathoms Deep Cover Photo
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Book Review — Seventeen Fathoms Deep: The Saga of the Submarine S-4 Disaster by Joseph A. Williams

Book Review by Rick Spilman – On the afternoon of December 17th, 1927, the US Navy submarine S-4 was surfacing near Provincetown, MA, when it was run

September 20, 2016
Total Views: 85

Monday, September 12, 2016
Canada Finds Second Ship from Doomed Franklin Voyage -Report
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Canada Finds Second Ship from Doomed Franklin Voyage -Report

OTTAWA, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Explorers have found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition

September 12, 2016
Total Views: 57

Thursday, September 1, 2016
Russia Honors First British Arctic Merchant Navy Convoy
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Russia Honors First British Arctic Merchant Navy Convoy

By Dmitry Madorsky (Reuters) British and Russian World War Two veterans gathered on Wednesday in Arkhangelsk, 75 years to the day since Britain’s first

September 1, 2016
Total Views: 286

Thursday, August 25, 2016
Underwater Photo of Great Lakes sloop Washington starboard side
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Watch A Group Retirees Turned Shipwreck Explorers Find The Oldest Intact Commercial Sailing Vessel

On November 6th, 1803 the merchant sloop Washington was sailing Lake Ontario enroute from Kingston to Niagara, Canada with a full cargo when it foundered

August 25, 2016
Total Views: 68

Thursday, August 18, 2016
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History: SS Eastland, The Ship That SOLAS Sunk

What is the “Eastland Phenomena”? by Dave Lochbaum (AllThingsNuclear) The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage has been immortalized in

August 18, 2016
Total Views: 424

Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Has Captain Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ Been Found in Newport Harbor?
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Has Captain Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ Been Found in Newport Harbor?

By Scott Malone BOSTON, May 3 (Reuters) – U.S. researchers are set to announce on Wednesday that they have found what they believe are the remains of

May 3, 2016
Total Views: 37

Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Missing U.S. Navy Tug ‘Conestoga’ Found Off California, Ending 95-Year-Old Maritime Mystery
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Missing U.S. Navy Tug ‘Conestoga’ Found Off California, Ending 95-Year-Old Maritime Mystery

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy tug missing since 1921 has been discovered sunk off San Francisco, officials said on Wednesday, solving a

March 23, 2016
Total Views: 43

Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Maritime News

Former Investigator Claims Crew Lit Deadly Fire Aboard ‘Scandinavian Star’ Ferry in 1990

A new twist this week over who lit the fires that killed 159 people aboard the car and passenger ferry Scandinavia Star in 1990, with a former investigator

February 24, 2016
Total Views: 177

Thursday, February 4, 2016
SS United States: Crystal Cruises Planning Return of Historic Transatlantic Liner
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SS United States: Crystal Cruises Planning Return of Historic Transatlantic Liner

A major development today in the ongoing saga to save the SS United States from a trip the scrapyard. Los Angeles-based Crystal Cruises says it has signed a

February 4, 2016
Total Views: 423

Friday, September 4, 2015
Drillship Built as CIA Spy Ship to Raise Soviet Sub Falls Victim to Oil Crash
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Drillship Built as CIA Spy Ship to Raise Soviet Sub Falls Victim to Oil Crash

  By John Miller ZURICH, Sept 3 (Reuters) – A ship built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub

September 4, 2015
Total Views: 184
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