Recently added articles from Sea Classics:
SEA MAIL
Mar 01, 2009; ... DE SAILORS Thank you! Thank you! I was delighted to receive my December 2008 issue of Sea Classics and find the feature article "DEs in the Cold War." It wanned my heart greatly and the story and pictures brought back many memories. I am sure there are thousands of ex-DE sailors ...
GIFTING A MUSEUM
Mar 01, 2009; ... During 2007 the New Bedford Whaling Museum was the recipient of scores of gifts appropriate to its collections. They ranged from a cross-stitched carpet worked on the maiden voyage of the Wanderer (1879-1881) to a sea chest owned by whaleman John Vieira (1843-1911). Several record books, ...
RARE CRUISE BOOK
Mar 01, 2009; ... The John Carter Brown Library, one of the great repositories of early Americana, has acquired a copy of Journal of a Cruise of the United States Schooner Dolphin, Hiram Paulding, New York G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. The US ship Dolphin was sent to the the Pacific to rescue survivors of a ...
THOSE NEW YORK FERRIES
Mar 01, 2009; ... On the afternoon of 25 October, a book signing was held at the Staten Island Museum, New York, with author Patricia M. Salmon signing the museum's latest publication, The Staten Island Ferry: A History The book traces the development of island ferries from the time of the Lenape Indians to the ...
STOCKDALE STATUE
Mar 01, 2009; ... A bronze statue of the late V/Adm. James B. Stockdale was dedicated on 31 October at the United States Naval Academy. Secretary of the Navy David C. Winter was the keynote speaker. Stockdale was a Vietnam prisoner of war and the recipient of the Medal of Honor. The graduate of the ...
REMEMBERING CVA-59
Mar 01, 2009; ... The USS Forrestal (CVA-59), decommissioned several years ago and docked at Pier 1, Naval Station Newport, awaiting disposition, was not forgotten by former crew members on 8 November. The assembly featured 60 ...
INTEL FILE
Mar 01, 2009; ... Latest Naval & Maritime Happenings Around the World HEROES REMEMBERED AT 67th PEARL HARBOR ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY By Michael A Lantron The US Navy and the National Park Service hosted a joint memorial ceremony at Kilo Pier on board Naval Station (NAVSTA) Pearl Harbor to ...
SILENT VICTORY: America's Pacific Submarine Campaign of World War Two
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the name of operational security, the US Navy clamped a lid of secrecy on the fantastic wartime successes of America's submariners The year 2009 marks the 110th anniversary of the US Submarine Force. Among the most extraordinary accomplishments of American submariners is the ...
A BREED APART: SAM DEALEY, THE DESTROYER SLAYER
Mar 01, 2009; ... In a rare display of fighting spirit and daring, the skipper of the USS Harder destroyed five Japanese destroyers in one assault. . . and lived to tell the tale Of the seven submariners granted the Medal of Honor in World War ?, three received the award posthumously. And among those, the ...
DARING ESCAPE OF THE AMETHYST
Mar 01, 2009; ... In one of the first Cold War shootouts with Communist forces, this Royal Navy Black Swan-class frigate survived a bitter ten-week siege at its embattled Yangtze River mooring before making a courageous break for freedom THE SENIOR OFFICER PRESENT DREADS A MESSAGE SUCH AS "UNDER HEAVY ...
TOP-TEN US NAVY SUBMARINE CAPTAINS OF WWII
Mar 01, 2009; ... Braving everything the Japanese could throw at them, a handful of American submariners racked up amazing scores of sunken enemy tonnage despite defective torpedoes and the rigors of having to operate alone thousands of miles from the nearest friendly base BY MACKENZIE J. GREGORY THE ...
The Rise & Demise Of The CRUISER
Mar 01, 2009; ... With the ever-changing methodology of Naval warfare, the traditional role of the cruiser finds itself being blurred by new concepts in sea supremacy When nautically naïve journalists write a story involving warships, they usually describe any powerful Naval vessel as either a battleship ...
TAKE 'ER DOWN! 120-Years of American Submarines
Mar 01, 2009; ... From the first crude submarines of John Holland to today's stealthy nuclear warriors, the submarine has rewritten the course of Naval history BEGINNINGS The US Navy's involvement with the submarine dates from 1888 when the Bureau of Construction and Repair (BUC&R) sponsored a ...
A LAKE TOO FAR: THE GUNBOATS OF TANGANYIKA
Mar 01, 2009; ... A little-known Naval war raged for control of Africa's most strategic waterway during World War I and became the inspiration of C.S. Forrester's classic novel and film The African Queen / Part Two -Conclusion SYNOPSIS OF PART ONE As the guns of August 1914 began to consume the ...
THE CONTAINERSHIP REVOLUTION: A WORLD REFORMED
Mar 01, 2009; ... Of all the vast changes in sea transportation over the ages, nothing has had an effect as profound as the advent of the "box ship" BY JIM BLOOM For many thousands of years, mankind has shipped goods across the oceans. Think of the great seafaring peoples - the Phoenicians, Egyptians, ...
REUNIONS
Mar 01, 2009; ... SHIPMATES: SEA CLASSICS publishes Naval/marine reunion announcements as a FREE public service in all but the JanuaryFebruary-December issues. Allow 60-days minimum lead time for your notice to appear. Notices MUST BE TYPEWRITTEN and contain only the basic information who, what, where and ...
LEATHERNECKS: An Illustrated History of United States Marine Corps
Mar 01, 2009; ... LEATHERNECKS: An Illustrated History of United States Marine Corps By Merrill L. Bartlett & Jack Sweetman 352 pgs,145 B&W plus 112 color photos, 8.5-in x 11-in, hardback. ISBN: 978-159114-020-7 - $60.00. US Naval Institute Press, 800-233-8764; www.usni.org Here is a book that ...
THE SEA ROVER'S PRACTICE: Pirate Tactics & Techniques 1630-1730
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE SEA ROVERS PRACTICE: Pirate Tactics & Techniques 1630-1730 ByBenerson Little 320 pgs, illustrated, 6-in x 9-in, paperbound. ISBN: 13-987-1-57488911-6 - $17.95 Potomac Books Dulles, VA; 703-661-1548; www.bookintl.com No "ho, ho, ho and a bottle of rum" dissertation ala Walt ...
SEA MAIL
Feb 01, 2009; ... STILL A MYSTERY Sea Classics, along with reader Lalevi A. Olkio, made a real contribution to Naval history in the April issue with the publishing of Olkio's letter adding a new dimension to my earlier article on the missing colliers. Thanks to his position as third mate of a sistership, ...
WHALESHIP CHARLES M. MORGAN
Feb 01, 2009; ... Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut, announced that it began the restoration of the Charles M. Morgan, the world's last wooden whaleship on 27 September. It was learned that the restoration project would take three years at a cost of $5 million to complete. The process will renew areas ...