Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
August 12, 2014
The Eagle boats were designed during World War I to serve the US Navy as submarine chasers. The then-existing class of submarine chasers had proven too slow and with insufficient range to counter the German U-boat menace. The problem was that…
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
February 18, 2014
William Lewis Herndon (1813-1857) was appointed Midshipman in the relatively new United States Navy in 1828, serving afloat in the Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Gulf of Mexico. From 1842 through 1847, he served at the new Naval Observatory and Hydrographic Office in Washington…
Posted to Maritime Musings
(by
Dennis Bryant)
on
January 7, 2014
As a consequence of the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837-38, the Royal Navy employed two armed steamers on Lake Erie. These were the first armed vessels on the Great Lakes since the end of the War of 1812. In response, the United States Navy determined to employ its own warship on the Great Lakes.
Posted to US Gulf Coast Shipyards
(by
Patrick LaBauve)
on
October 28, 2013
There are approximately 40 shipyards in the United States that are currently performing maritime construction and building vessels of 140 feet or longer. These vessels range from super-large oceangoing ships such as cargo ships and oil tankers…
Posted to Martin Rushmere
(by
Martin Rushmere)
on
August 31, 2012
There are upheavals at two ports that have been considered among the most admired and efficient in the country. Seattle’s CEO, Tay Yoshitani, is being scrutinized for taking on a directorship for 3PL group Expeditors, while Jerry Bridges has…
Posted to Coastwise Merchant Seamen of WW II
(by
Don Horton)
on
February 4, 2011
During the first part of WW II the German U-boat were sinking our ships faster than we could build them. The rate of sinkings were so great, our government directed the news media to not print the acutal sinkings for fear the seamen would shear…
Posted to Martin Rushmere
(by
Martin Rushmere)
on
December 30, 2010
Speculation on the forthcoming year has become remarkably sparse in the last couple of years because of the tumultuous events in liner shipping and uncertainty over the international economic situation. But a year-end port-related takeover is…
Posted to Konecranes take over Indian WMI
(by
Joseph Fonseca)
on
November 3, 2010
The Indian company WMI Cranes Ltd. (“WMI”) has been taken over by Konecranes. According to a spokesman of Konecranes’ which is well known for making heavy duty cranes for the maritime sector the acquisition marks an important step in strengthening…
Posted to Far East Maritime
(by
Greg Knowler)
on
June 17, 2010
No purchase price was given, but Chinese officials said they had paid “billions of dollars” for the debt-stricken Mediterranean country earlier this week. Okay, that’s not exactly how it went down, but it may as well have been. Bad jokes aside…
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