more: A Tribute to the “Picasso of Sailing” – Mike Peyton on yachtsandyachting.com Haunting Twitter Account Shares the Fates of the Refugees of the St. Louis Smithsonian.com – In honor...

The Lyford House being saved from demolition, 1957 Built in 1876, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; now owned by the National Audubon Society. Found...

Old Dragon’s Head: Where the Great Wall of China Meets the Sea Old Dragon’s Head (easternmost outpost of the Great Wall) is considered to be the start of the Great...

BBC:  The Conversation; Alone at Sea Steering a small boat across oceans by yourself – why do it? Kim Chakanetsa meets two women who have been alone at sea for...

A large whale, believed to be a humpback, was spotted in the East River in New York City on Saturday.  The New York Police Department’s special operations division posted a...

Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white, scientific photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the...

Royal Navy pilot Jock Moffat – credited with launching the torpedo which crippled the Bismarck in 1941 – has died at the age of 97 The torpedo dropped by his...

Latest Update from the Mary A Whalen at Portside NY: David Levine contributed a useful word of the day: farpotshket. Yiddish for “broken because someone tried to fix it.” Our...

Tighter marine fuel sulfur limits will spark changes by both refiners and vessel operators The sulfur content of transportation fuels has been declining for many years as a result of...

Why Americans Call Turkey ‘Turkey’ How a New World bird came to be named after countries halfway around the globe The Atlantic – Within the turkey lies the tangled history...

‘Idle Women’ – the land girls of the waterways Most people are familiar with the ‘Land Girls’; women who volunteered to work the land to aid the war effort during...

The Perfect Storm: 25 Years Later New England Cable News – The Perfect Storm turned 1991 into the deadliest year at sea for Gloucester, Massachusetts, since 1978. In the past...

Behold The Beauty That’s Now Protected By The Ross Sea Reserve Popular Science: The international community has taken the dramatic step of protecting part of this area from most human...

Mystery of the WWI U-Boat and the ‘sea monster’ solved How a bungling German captain sank his own vessel after demanding a heater in his cabin – and then blamed...

See also: Steamers AD MacTier, FP Jones on the Ways: A  and  B  and  C Saving a century-long ocean record Every day for 100 years, Scripps researchers or their colleagues...

State of the art maritime archaeology expedition conducted in Black Sea ScienceDaily – An international team, involving the University of Southampton’s Centre for Maritime Archaeology (UK) and funded by the...

Beer Company Develops Edible Six-Pack Rings That Feed, Rather Than Kill, Marine Life A craft beer company and an ad agency brewed up a brilliant idea to save marine life...

The World’s Largest Elevator Can Lift 6.7 Million Pounds of Ship sploid.gizmodo.com – There are a lot of logistical problems that pop up when you build a 600-foot structure like...

“There were no marks to separate one day from another, no rule whereby to measure time; all was one dull and cheerless uniformity of dark and cold…” * Second Vessel...

Inspired by Mariners on 9/11, One Photographer Found a Passion Sunday marks 15 years since the September 11th terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and...