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HMS Bounty and Privateer Lynx in Portsmouth, NH

HMS BOUNTY HMS Bounty and the Privateer Lynx will be in Portsmouth, NH for the annual Tall Ships Portsmouth Festival on Memorial Day weekend from May 29-31. It sounds like a great event.  The local...

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21st Annual Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race

Around Fells Point and Baltimore’s Inner Harbor will be a glorious place for any schooner lover to be this evening.   There will be a parade of sail of the over forty schooners who are participating...

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Restoration work for HMS Victory

HMS Victory Earlier this month we posted about a report which features dire warnings about the condition of HMS Victory.     Thanks to David Hayes for passing along  an update on the restoration work...

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The Gundalow Piscataqua Splashes into the Piscataqua River

For over 200 years, gundalows – sail and oar powered cargo barges – moved on the winds and tides of the rivers and estuaries along the New England coast.  Yesterday, the brand new gundalow, Piscataqua,...

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Tug Benjamin Bailey Rolls on Piscataqua River, Two Escape

On Wednesday afternoon, the tug Benjamin Bailey rolled and suddenly capsized in the currents of the Piscataqua River. Fortunately the two crew men aboard managed to escape from the sudden capsize. The...

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Final Block for Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth Leaves Portsmouth

Upper Block 07 Remember when ships were built from the keel up and launched by sliding down the building ways into the water with a satisfying splash?  OK, maybe I am showing my age. These days ships...

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Historic Spitbank Fort Reborn as Luxury Hotel

The Spitbank Fort is a sea fort constructed in 1878 in the Solent near Portsmouth, England.  Now the 162 feet in diameter sea-granite fortification which once hosted 12-inch breechloading guns,...

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Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race 2013

The Parade of Sail in the 2013 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race starts in a few minutes from Canton, MD in Baltimore harbor.  The race begins tomorrow at 1330 just south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge...

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HMS Victory at 250 Years Old — Last Chance to Save the Historic Ship?

This May will be the 250th anniversary of the launching of HMS Victory, the 104-gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line best known as Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.  HMS...

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HMS Victory : Amazing 3D Map of Nelson’s Battleship

Laser scanning has been used to create a 3D map of HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship in his victory at Trafalgar. Using 850 separate scans, scientists have collected 90 billion measurements on the 230...

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German Bomb Dredged up in Portsmouth Harbor

In 2011, a drought lowered the levels of the Rhine River, revealing unexploded munitions from World War II partially buried in the river banks exposed by the falling waters. Now, in Portsmouth harbor...

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Dredging Portsmouth Harbor — Cannon, Anchors, Bombs and a Skull

When dredging a harbor with as long and rich a history as UK’s Portsmouth, there is literally no telling what you may find.  The harbor is now being dredged to deepen and widen a four-mile channel to...

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Fighter Jets Land for the First Time on HMS Queen Elizabeth

From the BBC:  Fighter jets, specifically F-35 Lightning stealth jets, have landed on the UK’s new £3.1bn aircraft carrier for the first time.  Portsmouth-based HMS Queen Elizabeth was commissioned...

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Royal Navy Training Under Sail Again on TS Tenacious

The Royal Navy has announced that for the first time in decades, its sailors are learning the art of seafaring on a traditional tall ship. Over four months junior sailors are crewing TS Tenacious –...

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