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Celebrating the Winners of Art of the Sea Exhibition
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Annual Awards Dinner 23 October 2025
2025 Annual Awards Dinner 23 October 2025 – New York Yacht Club Honoring Leslie Kohler American…
62nd Annual Meeting Featuring Charles Anderson: Sinking the United States
Watch the Annual Meeting Recording >> Watch: The Sinking of the United States >> Thursday…
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SEA HISTORY
In the Pages of Sea History 190
“American Steams Yachts at War: Yachtsmen and Their Boats Commissioned for Wartime Service” by Steve Dunn Read this featured article “The Indefatigable Howard I. Chapelle” by John S….
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Beluga Whale
This collage of illustrations appeared on 8 June 1878 in a London newspaper called The Graphic. The story does not have a happy ending, but it is worth considering because it teaches us about a specific kind of whale, about marine mammal biology in general, and about how the way we think of these animals…
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