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Ship’s Log 1944 – Echos of World War II

A recent testimonial published in the Suburban Times showcases what the ship logs of the great war looked like. The World War 2 ship log from 1944 chronicled life at sea amidst troubled waters.

Here’s an excerpt from that article.

Finding the Ship Log

My brother-in-law, Keith called to see if I would like an envelope of documents and papers that belonged to my father during World War II. Later that day, my sister, Marsha, gave me the envelope at a family dinner. They had been buried in old boxes.

Ov...

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April 26, 1956: The World’s First Containership IdealX Starts Its Voyage

According to an article published in the Wired, today is the date when containerization was born as the first every containership set sails from Newark, New Jersey on this date in 1956

  • The converted tanker Ideal X with its specially fitted deck carried 58 cargo-laden truck-trailers.
  • It was the brainchild of North Carolina businessman Malcolm McLean, who bought a second-hand truck in 1934 and built it into a fleet of nearly 1,800 trucks, the largest in the South and the fifth-largest in the...

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Herodotus’s Egyptian Ship Discovered in Sunken City

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote extensively about a ship during his travels to Egypt in 450BC. Now that mysterious Egyptian ship has been unearthed in a sunken city, reports the Dailystar.co.uk.

About the Lost Ship

“It wasn’t until we discovered this wreck that we realized Herodotus was right”, said Damian Robinson one of the explorers.

In his magnum-opus – Historia – he described how the barge used sails made of papyrus, had a mast made of acacia wood and used a rudder that passed...

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Firefighters Battle Flames, Wind And Cold in 1916 Ship Fire


According to Collingwood Today Feature, we return to the early morning fire aboard the City of Midland that emblazoned Collingwood’s skyline on Friday, March 17, 1916.

Blaze Account

This account of the blaze appeared in The Messenger newspaper the following day:

About 3 o’clock on Friday (yesterday) morning, a fire was discovered on the Steamer City of Midland, owned by the Canada Steamship Lines, and the vessel was completely destroyed, being burned to the water edge.

The work of outfitting had...

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1836 : Inventor Colt Patents Revolver, Becomes Famous

On February 25, 1836 the American Inventor Samuel Colt patented the Revolver.

The Industrialist who is today known as creator and inventor of the most popular gun design, a six-barreled Colt pistol called “revolver“, instantly became famous after this discovery, reports History section of Gaston Gazette.

A Pioneer in the Field

As a founder of” Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company” (today known as “Colt’s Manufacturing Company”) he greatly popularized the use of interchangeable parts,...

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‘Sailing to the Sun’ Pictures Reveal How We Used to Cruise

William Henry Miller, Jr. (Bill Miller) born May 3, 1948 is a maritime author and historian who has written numerous books dealing with the golden age of ocean liners. CNN Travel recently published an article sharing Miller’s marine experience and about his new book “Sailing to the Sun”. Here’s an excerpt from it.

Dream Come True

Growing up in 1950s New Jersey, William Miller loved watching the great ocean liners coming and going from New York Harbor. “I thought to myself, ‘What would it be like...

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Fiery Demise of a Vessel in Collingwood’s Snow-Covered Harbour

  • An archival collection has been released, the steamer City of Midland was built in Owen Sound in 1890 by John Simpson for the North Shore Navigation Company.
  • The North Shore Navigation Company was nicknamed the “Black Line,” and the “White Line” referred to the Great Northern Transit Company.
  • It was the most documented event in her twenty-six-year career was her fiery demise in Collingwood’s snow-covered harbour on March 17, 1916.
  • A fire occurred uncomfortably close to the Grand Trunk Grain...

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World War II Cargo Ship

Cargo Ships are always of interest for people in the maritime industry, specially if it belongs to the World War Era. World War 2 Cargo Ships are of a different kind altogether.  Here’s a picture of one such ship reported by the Post Bulletin in their “Today in History” section of 8th February.

What is it?

A general view of the ship shows officers searching the cargo of a vessel at a British contraband control station, Feb. 8, 1940. On the left is seen the naval search boat alongside of the cargo...

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Explorers to Break Through Sea Ice to Endurance, the Shackleton’s Ship

  • Antarctic explorers are to break their way through 75 miles of sea ice in an effort to reach the final resting place of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance.
  • The Endurance sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915, after 10 months trapped by ice
  • Researchers on the SA Agulhas II, a 13,700-tonne icebreaker, hope to reach the wreck site later this week.
  • The explorers are using satellite imagery and drones to monitor the moving sea ice and chart what they hope will be a course through.

Antarctic...

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