The 1914-built battleship TEXAS, a veteran of both World Wars, has been moored at the San Jacinto Battleground, Texas since 1948. Her hull was last repaired in the late 1980s and has since become dangerously weakened from years of exposure to the brackish water of the Houston Ship Channel. A…
After months of ongoing work that includes replacing cap rails, chipping old paint, patching and applying fresh new paint, the 1955-built former WAPPEN VON HAMBURG, DELOS, POLAR STAR, PACIFIC STAR, XANADU, FAITHFUL is soon to depart her berth at Rio Vista, California for San Francisco, where she will be used…
Peter Knego’s latest Sea Treks video, “CONTE BIANCAMANO, Then and Now”, has been added to the MaritimeMatters video clip page. See the 1925-built liner come to life in a series of vintage images provided by Maurizio Eliseo, including some spectacular views of her first class interiors by some of Italy’s…
Repost and update of March 17 post: Media has been busy with news about future of the SS UNITED STATES, laid up on the Delaware River in South Philadelphia for the last 14 years. Her owner (Norwegian Cruise Line) has reportedly been showing the vessel to scrap merchants. The SS…
SS LANE VICTORY Underway by Gordon Ghareeb First published on MaritimeMatters June 2008 She lies in waiting only 8,000-feet from where she was born. The warm Southern Californian sunshine beats down upon the gray-painted steel of her hull and upright superstructure. She epitomizes the euphemism of form following function. She…
by Sgt. Ken Sullivan, Indiana Sgt. Ken Sullivan sailed on the QUEEN MARY when he shipped out to World War II in 1944, at the age of 22. His daughter Barb, asked him to write his recollections of the crossing. “He is now 84 years old, and in very poor…
