Category: News
Opportunity to Sail a Viking Ship Across the Atlantic
Do you think you’ve got the Viking spirit? Expedition America 2016 is looking for a few good men and women to crew aboard Draken Harald Hårfagre (Dragon Harald Fairhair), the largest viking ship built in modern times. The ship will…
Colombian Government Reports Identification of San Jose Shipwreck
The government of Colombia has announced that it has located the remains of the Spanish galleon San Jose, lost in a battle against the British ship Expedition, in the War of Spanish Succession, 307 years ago. The wreck, located not…
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Receives Grant for Education Programs
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has been given a $60,000 grant from the Wallace Genetic Foundation of Washington, DC, to expand the reach of its educational programming. The funds will support a new boatshop educational program for local sixth graders,…
20th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon
The New Bedford Whaling Museum will mark its 20th marathon reading of Moby-Dick the weekend of 7–10 January. The reading will begin at noon on Saturday, 9 January and include more than 150 participants reading short passages from the novel;…
Peking will Return to Hamburg
The South Street Seaport Museum has announced that the 1911 barque Peking will return to Hamburg, Germany, to serve as the centerpiece of that city’s new waterfront museum. Launched at Hamburg’s Blohm & Voss shipyard, Peking was one of the…
Group Searching for Episodes of the British Seafarer
A group of sailing, folk music and old-time radio enthusiasts in the UK has put out the call for recordings of the BBC radio series The British Seafarer: A history in 26 parts in the words of those who have…
NOAA Proposes Two New Candidates for National Marine Sanctuary
During the 2015 Our Ocean Conference in Valparaiso, Chile, President Barack Obama announced that two new national marine sanctuaries have been identified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) for possible designation under the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. An…
Clearwater Campaign to "Float the Boat"
In autumn of 2009 the Clearwater organization began a five-year hull restoration project of the Hudson River sloop Clearwater. That winter, crew and shipwrights from Rondout Woodworking worked on the forward third of the vessel, replacing the frames, planks, stem…
Competition to Design New Viking Age Museum in Oslo
Norway’s Ministry of Education and Research has announced a competition for a new Viking Age Museum in Bygdøy, Oslo. Architects and landscape architects will submit ideas to create a center for studying the Viking Age. The top entries will share…
Mystic Announces Grant for Sabino Project
Mystic Seaport Museum has been awarded a grant of over $149,000 from the Institute of Library and Museum Sciences Museums for America grant program to help fund the ongoing restoration of the steamboat Sabino. Mystic Seaport will provide matching funds…
Tall Ship Lynx Seeks a Deckhand
The Lynx is seeking a motivated, personable individual to fill a paid deckhand position, beginning immediately. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in traditional sailing and education. Lynx will be conducting educational programs and daysails in Nantucket through…
South Street to Receive $10.4 Million for Superstorm Sandy Repairs
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) and the South Street Seaport Museum announced that the museum will be receiving $10.4 million in federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The grant from FEMA’s Public Assistance Program…
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Eye on Hermione
This summer, ports along the North American Atlantic coast have been host to France’s Hermione, replica of the frigate that carried the Marquis de Lafayette to aid the American colonies in their struggle for independence. From her first arrival in…