On Friday, March 25, 2011, Steve Rodriguez of www.kalakala.org announced that the former non-profit organization dedicated to saving and preserving the ferry KALAKALA would become a for profit entity. At the same time, it looked like his dream of saving the the unique vintage ferry was literally sinking as the ship took…
Philippe Pierre Brebant reports from Le Havre that one of the two original sets of neon letters displayed between the iconic funnels spelling out F R A N C E on board the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique’s SS FRANCE, was preserved and re-lit. When the ship was transformed into the SS…
Captain Peter Roberts, the master of SS SHIELDHALL, has issued an urgent appeal concerning the future of this fully operational sea going vessel. By the spring of 2011, a mandatory dry-docking must be undertaken – without it the ship will not be allowed to continue to legally operate and could…
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum acquires tug HUNTINGTON’s pilot house compiled by Tracey Munson Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (NNS) Apprentice Alumnus Bill Lee vividly remembers standing to port of Huntington’s pilot house on Memorial Day in 1980. Amid whistles blowing and veteran shipbuilders cheering near Hampton Roads on…
Part Two of Shawn Dake’s river cruise aboard steamboat DELTA QUEEN DAY 5, OCTOBER 12, 2007, PORT OF CLAY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI Talk about waking up and not knowing where you are. The Majestic America Line brochure says today’s call is Waverley Plantation; the daily program says Columbus, Mississippi; and outside…
Southampton restores Titanic Engineers Memorial with a ceremony today, marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS TITANIC sank 98 years ago, en route to New York, after colliding with an iceberg. The memorial was originally unveiled in 1914 by Sir Archibald Denny, president of the…
Scotland’s Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop announced that the preferred bidder for the 1864-built clipper ship CITY OF ADELAIDE would be the City of Adelaide Preservation Trust, thereby returning the ship to the Australian city after which she was named. Ms Hyslop said: “The ‘City of Adelaide’ has an illustrious past…
MINGHUA, (ex ANCERVILLE, SEA WORLD) by Martin Cox (first appeared on MaritimeMatters in 2000. Updated in 2004, 2007, 2010) Built as ANCERVILLE Compagnie de Navigation Paquet, Marseilles Built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique, St. Nazaire 14,224 gt 551 x 72 ft 2 12-cyl diesels, Burmeister & Wain from builders Twin Screw,…
Updated with larger images on August 15, 2011. The 1955-built mini-liner MV WAPPEN VON HAMBURG, after a long life and years of neglect, is about to embark upon a new life along the San Francisco waterfront as the MV AURORA. Part one of this Decked! feature details this handsome ship’s…
This is a top to bottom virtual tour of the MS PHILIPPINES (former AUGUSTUS) as the ship is today. Some of the original furnishings have since been replaced with stackable conference seating and the ship has been moved to a new slip with direct access from the back patio of…
