On January 4, 2001, the domestic high-speed vessel Finest, with 258 passengers, 5 crewmembers, and one company official on board, ran aground outside the channel to the Shrewsbury River, sandy Hook Bay, while en route from New York City, NY, to Highlands, New Jersey. The Finest refloated after the tide changed and proceeded to sandy Hook Bay Marina, where it docked and discharged its passengers. No one on board suffered any injury, and the vessel sustained no damage. The major safety issues in this report are the adequacy of the navigational procedures and navigational aids in the Shrewsbury River and the appropriateness of alcoholic beverage service after an accident. The Safety Board's recommendation to the U.S. Coast Guard and to New York Fast Ferry services are included.

A new and updated edition of the only sailing manual that you will ever need. Whether you are a seasoned seafarer or just starting out, this fully revised and updated sailing manual is perfect for all levels of experience. Learn how to handle any sailing situation - with thorough coverage of all aspects of sailing and boat ownership Inside the pages of this new edition of the go-to guide about sailing and boat maintenance, you'll discover: - Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of sailing practice written by an expert sailor - The latest information and advice, and technological developments - A complete tuition course on seamanship, chapter by chapter - Authoritative text, clear, annotated diagrams, and action photographs - A reliable, instant, and user-friendly handbook for any sailing situation - Foreword by quadruple Olympic gold medalist, Sir Ben Ainslie In DK's The Complete Sailing Manual, former British national champion Steve Sleight offers a wealth of expert advice and guidance in the form of a complete tuition course on seamanship. This ultimate sailing handbook is packed with engaging essential information and breathtaking action photography. Handy diagrams, and step-by-step artwork, and instructions will teach you all the latest sailing techniques. This updated edition for 2021 features all of the latest developments in sailing - including foiling, long-distance cruising, and high-speed apparent-wind sailing and navigation. Explore new developments in sailing equipment such as modern performance systems, electronic navigation and ways to use alternative energy on board. Explore the latest rules, regulations, and best practices from collision regulations to safety equipment. This essential sailing book is necessary for every keen sailor, from the novice to the seasoned sea person.

1926. Contents: Ships of the Ancient World; Viking Voyages to America; Barbary Pirates; The Portuguese Explorers; The Argosies and Pageants of Venice; The Caravels of Columbus; The First Ship to Sail Around the World; Discoverers in the New World; The Great Harry; English Adventurers; The Spanish Armada; The Mayflower; Dutch Ships; Tall East Indiamen; Ships of the American Colonies and Republic; Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast; The Victory: a Ship-of-the-Line; The North Atlantic Packets; Old Ironsides: the Frigate Constitution; Ships in Eastern Seas; Thar She Blows! The Whaler; The Darling of the Seas: The Clipper Ship; Warriors of the Deep; Ships of Various Types; and Ships of the Modern World.

This report discusses the sinking of the amphibious passenger vehicle, Miss Majestic, during an excursion tour of Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs, Arkansas, on May 1, 1999. The NTSB's investigation of this accident identified safety issues in the following areas: vehicle maintenance, Coast Guard inspections of the Miss Majestic, Coast Guard inspection guidance, reserve buoyancy, and survivability. The Safety Board's recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Governors of the States of New York and Wisconsin are included.

SIXTEEN boats were in the procession which entered on the terrible hours of rowing, drifting and suspense. Women wept for lost husbands and sons, sailors sobbed for the ship which had been their pride. Men choked back tears and sought to comfort the widowed. Perhaps, they said, other boats might have put off in another direction. They strove, though none too sure themselves, to convince the women of the certainty that a rescue ship would appear.

It is related that on the night of the disaster, right up to the time of the Titanic's sinking, while the band grouped outside the gymnasium doors played with such supreme courage in face of the water which rose foot by foot before their eyes, the instructor was on duty inside, with passengers on the bicycles and the rowing-machines, still assisting and encouraging to the last. Along with the bandsmen it is fitting that his name, which I do not think has yet been put on record--it is McCawley--should have a place in the honourable list of those who did their duty faithfully to the ship and the line they served.

Senator Ted Kennedy said, "My father worked here. The Fore River Shipyard will once again be a symbol of our leadership. And I will do all I can to insure that this leadership continues to thrive. The shipbuilding industry has been struggling in this country as a whole. Employment has dropped to a 40 year low. American-built ships carry less than one percent of world trade. That is unacceptable."

Senator John McCain said, "We have an obligation to protect the taxpayers' dollars by ensuring that this is a viable project. It is my desire that the Quincy shipyard, into which the state of Massachusetts and the city of Quincy have invested significant resources, will be a successful venture."

President Clinton said about shipbuilding and the Quincy yard in particular, "Shipbuilding is one of the keys to America's national defense and helping our shipbuilders succeed commercially is an important goal of defense conversion. This administration is committed to preserving highly skilled American jobs and we believe that American shipbuilding can compete and win in world markets."

What happened...? SHIPBUILDING USED TO BE ONE OF THE TOP FIVE INDUSTRIES IN THE U.S.A.

1913. Sixteen Illustrations. Contents: The Last Day Aboard Ship; Struck By an Iceberg; The Foundering of the Titanic; Struggling in the Water for Life; All Night on Bottom of Half-Submerged Upturned Boat; The Port Side: Women and Children First; Starboard Side: and Women First, But Men When There Were No Women.

This report discusses the collision that occurred on January 12, 2002, between the USCG patrol boat CG242513, which was on a routine patrol of Biscayne Bay, and the small passenger vessel Bayside Blaster, which was on a sightseeing tour of the area. From its investigation of the accident, the NTSB identified safety issues regarding the adequacy of the following: operation of the Coast Guard patrol boat; operation of the Bayside Blaster; Coast Guard oversight of routine patrols; Boatrides International, Inc. (owner of the Bayside Blaster) management oversight; kill switch operation on Coast Guard nonstandard boats; lifejacket stowage on the Bayside Blaster; and Coast Guard safety oversight of small passenger vessels in Miami. The Safety Board's recommendations to the U.S Coast Guard, to Boatrides International Inc., and to the Passenger Vessel Association are included.

Do You Know The Nautical Origins Of:

"A Stitch In Time Save Nine"
"A Couple Of Shakes"
"As The Crow Flies"
"Chewing The Fat"
"The Devil To Pay"
"Feeling Blue"
"Pooped"

Or perhaps one of you "old salts" would like to know the actual definitions of nautical terms such as garboard, lagan, or larboard.

You Need "Captain Bucko's Nauti-Words Handbook!

This book is intended for the use of students at shipbuilding institutes and may also serve as a text for research and design engineers engaged in ship construction. The book treats the problems concerned with the buoyancy and stability of a complete and damaged ship encountered by the naval architect in the design, building and operation of ships. It presents the theory of the subject matter and the methods of calculations employed in ship construction. The technique of calculations is illustrated by numerical examples in a number of cases. In distinction to other books dealing with the problems of buoyancy and stability of ships, this text covers both static and dynamic effects. Some theoretical propositions and calculations have been developed by the author and are published in the world naval literature for the first time. Vladimir Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Doctor of Technical Sciences, is professor and head of the Department of Naval Architecture at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Dr. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky is conducting wide research work in the field of theoretical naval architecture, applied hydromechanics and theoretical mechanics. He has worked out some problems of the theory of buoyancy and stability of ships with consideration of static and dynamic effects which is an important contribution to the theory of naval architecture. Dr. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky is the author of several books and a large number of scientific papers and reports. The main of these are the following: Statics of the Ship, Short Course in Theory of Ship, and Statics and Dynamics of the Ship.

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the "Caledonia," a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the "Caledonia"'s demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for "wrecking"--luring ships ashore to loot the cargo--it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow?
Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction in this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind--the sort that really did happen.

Canadian Pacifics Beavers: Part 1; Derick Goubert -- Captain & Owner; Photographer in Focus Cliff Parsons; Iron Ladies: Part 3; Misfortunes of War -- Photos from Airships in WW1; RMSP Magdalena: Trials & Tragedy; Sunderland in Focus: Part 2.

Shaw Savills Post-War Passenger Cargo Ships; The Iron Ladies: Part 2; Continuing the Saga of Bisco Ore Carriers; British Cargo Liners in Old & New Colours; Thomas Skinners Castle Line; In a Liberty Ship Engine Room; Garston Docks in Focus.

This book sets forth both the theory and practice of navigation as applied to fishing. It explains the use of various aids in work with and without fishing gear, while searching for and taking fish. Several methods of course-shaping are suggested along with a mathematical treatment if navigational problems. The book is intended for students of navigation departments or colleges, and was originally published in the Soviet Union. The book is an outcome of teamwork by Vladimir Olkhovsky, Anatoly Tantsura and Vladimir Yakovlev. At he time of original publication, Professor Olkhovsky was pro-rector of the Murmansk Navigation School. He has written Oceanography in the Service of Modern Navigation with V. Dremling (as co-author), Radio Aids to Dead Reckoning, A Reference Handbook of Fishing Navigators (as editor-in-chief), etc. Tantsura was assistant professor at the Navigation Department of the Murmansk Navigation School. He has contributed articles on fishing oceanography to various periodicals. Yakovlev is an engineer at the Research and Development Sector of the Murmansk Navigation School. He has contributed to A Reference Handbook of Fishing Navigators (edited by Olkhovsky) and a number of articles to periodicals.

For 23 years, Cussler's NUMA--the National Underwater & Marine Agency--has scoured Earth's waters in search of lost ships of historic significance. This collection contains more of their true adventures. Illustrations.

Bergen Line: Part 2; William Livermore of Sydney; The Iron Ladies -- Ore Carriers Built for BISCO: Part 1; Finns in the Fifties; North Pacific Line: Part 2; Queensland Star-Brazilia Star; Four Sailing Barges.

The British did not take to water like ducks, for centuries doing little but cling to coastal waters. The Romans and Vikings knocked spots of us as seamen, and the English upper classes saw seafaring as mercantile and beneath them. Britain's success at sea began with Elizabeth I and the defeat of the Armada, thanks to superior gunnery and seamanship. Elizabeth employed practical seamen like Hawkins and Drake - and they repaid her trust. Howarth reconstructs the expansion of trade routes and the great 18th - century days of the line of battle ships. With Napoleon's fall, the British were free to expand, and their prestige rose so high that sea warfare almost ceased as British ships patrolled the oceans. In the 20th century, the British navy was twice as big as any other. Full of anecdote, erudition and humour, this is a classic account.

In 1844 the USS Yorktown sailed from New York, as part of the U.S. Navy's newly established African Squadron, to interdict slave ships leaving the African coast. Aboard the sloop of war, Master's Mate John C. Lawrence, an educated New Yorker in his early twenties, kept a private journal describing what happened during the extraordinary two-year voyage and his reactions to the events he witnessed. His frank and vivid observations take the reader into a world known to few. Through Lawrence's eyes we see the men of the Yorktown in action and encounter many other nineteenth-century figures either engaged in or attempting to combat the slave trade. Among the cast of characters are an infamous slave ship captain, an abolitionist slave-owning minister, the Yorktown's admirable skipper, Liberian colonists, and native Africans. In a final entry we bear witness to Lawrence's nearly overwhelming confrontation with the horrors of slavery as he records his experiences aboard the captured slaver Pons on the way to Liberia with more than nine hundred slaves. In addition to Lawrence's never-before published journal, this book includes material that narrates parts of the slavery story Lawrence could not tell. C. Herbert Gilliland sets the journal in historical context to give readers a full understanding of events as they unfolded in the mid-1840s. Although there have been many books written on the slave trade and many others on life in the antebellum Navy, no other book has succeeded so well at bringing to life the issues of America's role in the Middle Passage while exposing the thoughts of a nineteenth-century naval officer. C. Herbert Gilliland is professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy and a retired captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He is the coauthor of Admiral Dan Gallery.

A well-researched overview by the author of The Story of the New England Whalers, John R. Spears, describing the growth of the U.S. Merchant marine from the first commercial vessel in 1607 through the Revolution, steam, privateering and pirates, packets and clippers, to the immediate pre-WWI period.