Peking, one of the famous “Flying P Liners” of F. Laeisz Lines, has been restored and will be delivered to the Hamburg Historical Museum Foundation. The 1911 Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque. The Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz, was one of the last generation of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships used in …
Archives (Leslie Jones collection) – The race start of the Mass Bay Indian Class, as viewed from the rocks at the Marblehead Neck Light (now called Chandler Hovey Park). Attribution Ken Rolt – The Indian design was drawn by Sam Crocker of John Alden’s firm. These would be Design 148 of Alden…#59 Tecumseh is in …
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French Marine artist Dirk Verdoorn (born 1957 in Dordrecht), is a French peintre de la marinej from the Netherlands. Dirk Verdoorn is noted for his “maxirealist” paintings of working ships in harbor and at sea, as well as his scenes of Dutch country canals remembered from his childhood in Holland. He worked as an art …
Archives – L’épopée Tabarly Eric Tabarly will remain, in the minds of all French people, as a legendary sailor. His saga and his exploits are forever associated with a line of legendary boats: the Pen Duicks. Produced by the Thalassa Magazine team, the two films tell the story of the Tabarly epic in images. The …
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Watch Live as ISAIAS approaches the Carolinas from the Frying Pan Tower 32 miles off the coast. FRYING PAN TOWER Frying Pan Tower was erected in 1964 to help ships avoid running aground the shallow waters known as the Frying Pan Shoals. The Coast Guard staffed the light station until 1979, when the …