Tweet The Great Lakes Steamship Society was founded in 2010 with the key goal of preserving the J.B. FORD, originally the 1904-vintage iron ore bulk carrier E.F. HOLMES commissioned for the Commonwealth Shipping Company. She was built by American Shipbuilding Company in Lorain, Ohio, measured 440 by 50 feet and…
Tweet Britain’s Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a grant of just under £1 million to the SS ROBIN, which will allow the ship to re-open to the public. Floating above the water on a purpose-built pontoon, SS ROBIN returned to her London home last summer after a three year restoration program.…
Tweet Steve Rodrigues and a band of loyal volunteers are keeping KALAKALA afloat, but the Coast Guard wants him to move her, concerned that the rusting former ferry could sink in the Hylebos Waterway, Tacoma. Rodrigues bought KALAKALA in 2003 when she was berthed on Seattle’s Lake Union. After complaints…
Tweet The SS KEEWATIN, the last Edwardian liner, has been a tourist attraction for the last 44-years at Douglas, Michigan on the east shore of the Kalamazoo River, a few miles from Lake Michigan. Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Scotland in 1907 KEEWATIN ran continuously for almost…
Tweet In the aftermath of SOLAS 2010, classic passenger ships have gone from endangered to practically extinct. Alang is still claiming what it can of the few that remain, including what is the probably the most important surviving ocean liner in the world (aside from the preserved QUEEN MARY in…
Tweet BOREd in Turku, again: The Forum Marinum Maritime Museum by Kalle Id The Forum Marinum Maritime Museum is one of the two major attractions Finland’s oldest city Turku had to offer to ship-buffs. As I covered the other major attraction, the preserved pocket liner/cruise ship BORE in my last…
Tweet by Kalle Id Unless otherwise noted, all images are copyright 2011 Kalle Id. The city of Turku in south-western Finland is probably known to most ship-enthustiasts as the origin of many of today’s largest cruise ships, the most recent being the giant ALLURE OF THE SEAS. The oldest city…
Tweet Ben Lyons submitted his highly illustrated article from a weekend as volunteer crew aboard WWII Liberty ship SS JOHN W. BROWN sailing from Baltimore to the Colonnas shipyard in Norfolk over the weekend of August 6 & 7, 2011 – Martin Cox SS JOHN W. BROWN by volunteer crew…
Tweet Original Queen Mary (Clyde Steamer) To Be Auctioned By Shawn J. Dake The T.S. (Turbine Steamer) QUEEN MARY, one of the most remarkable excursion steamers ever constructed and one of the last of the great River Clyde ships still in existence will be sold at auction on August 24,…
Tweet Richard Weiss emailed me about this event recently, I asked if we could cover this historic event on MaritimeMatters with his excellent photographs – Martin Cox: What follows is Richard’s own account and photographs of the July 1st event in Toledo, Ohio: SS COL. JAMES M. SCHOONMAKER A Century…
