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 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 PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND PRESIDENT TYLER AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES TWINS TRADE PLACES By Shawn J. Dake A funny thing happened on the way to the scrap yard. A pair of identical twins switched places, then met for a final time before parting to fulfill the others destiny. The ships were…
Tweet SS SHIELDHALL (last steam-powered cargo vessel in Europe and part of the National Historic Steamship collection) returned about 6AM berth 29 in Southampton after a 22 hour voyage from her scheduled dry-docking in Falmouth, Cornwall. The required dry-docking, which followed a fundraising drive, was needed for reissuing her passenger…
Tweet An Art Deco masterpiece that created decades of memories and became a landmark on the St. Louis waterfront is about to be scrapped. Depending on water conditions in the Mississippi River, the ADMIRAL riverboat may depart any day now for her final voyage, a 10 hour tow to the Azcon…
Tweet In the ongoing efforts to rid Suisun Bay in Northern California of the remaining inactive ships of the Ready Reserve Fleet, the second vessel in a month has left to be scrapped. The PRESIDENT was towed away from the raft of ships at the end of Row J, on…
Tweet The steam-powered freighter SOLON TURMAN was towed from the California’s Suisuin Bay mothball fleet today to be cleansed and dismantled, but unlike previous ships that have gone to the scrapyards this one will not be making the long final voyage to Brownsville, Texas. Instead, the ship will travel about…
Tweet Kristina Cruises has announced today that its 1960-built MV KRISTINA REGINA (ex BORE) may be sold to a newly-formed Turku-based company, Oy S/S Borea Ab for use as a floating hotel and museum. The handsome twin funneled, 4,295 gt liner, which was originally steam powered, will be forced out…
