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Museum Spotlight: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Maritime Museum of the Atlantic The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. This Canadian maritime museum is the oldest and largest maritime museum in Canada. The Maritime Museum houses over 30,000 artifacts including 70 small craft and one ship: the CSS Acadia, a ...8 hours ago -
Flogged it!
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Presenter,Paul Martin, and I at the Albert Dock My appearance on the popular BBC 2 afternoon auction show Flog It! was broadcast onWednesday – recorded on the Albert Dock with presenter Paul Martin. It was shot back in April when the crew spent the day at three separate locations.My main role was ...11 hours ago -
On Canada, Clocks, and Conan Doyle
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Probably the biggest surprise I got, visiting the Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , was the statue of General Wolfe. As in “Plains of Abraham” General Wolfe. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to encounter Canadiana during my vacation. And yet, there he was , right beside the ...4 days ago -
New lives
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SarahJane Parsons in Bridlington, 1950. Image courtesy Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. Homesickness is like seasickness – you only feel better once you’ve stopped travelling.I have suffered from both and hope I never experience them again. Longing for home gnaws away at the soul and is almost ...1 week ago -
Peak at a penguin
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Penguinsare almost go at the warehouse. Look At Me is front left. Image courtesy of HelenBurnley. Those of you who live locally might already have heard about the imminent arrivalof over 100 penguins to the streets and venues of Liverpool. Go Penguins! launcheson 22 November, and National Museums Liverpool ...1 week ago -
A New Home for the Cutter Acacia and the Submarine USS Ling at Risk
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The US Coast Guard cutter Acacia , three years after being decommissioned, has found a new home and a new role as a museum ship sponsored by the American Academy of Industry , along side the S.S. City of Milwaukee in Manistee, MI – U.S. Coast Guard cutter Acacia finds its new home in Manistee The ...1 week ago -
Capturing Blackbeard Through Conservation
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Editor’s note: Stories on Blackbeard’s November ties are welcome now. This event is for the media only. It will review work on artifact investigation from the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck, Blackbeard’s flagship. GREENVILLE – November was a big month for the pirate Blackbeard. He captured the ...1 week ago -
Red Drum, Walking Fish and the N.C. Maritime Museum
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BEAUFORT – Customers will be eating with a purpose on Nov. 13, at the latest of the Maritime Seafood Dinner series to benefit education programs at the N.C. Maritime Museum. Seafood has been an important part of the region’s diet, economy and culture, and the dinner will help the museum and also help consumers ...1 week ago -
Emigrant motives
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Emigrantson the Guion Liner, Wisconsin. Image courtesy Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. The nearest I’ve got to emigrating is briefly wanting to flee to the Isle of Man -in the summer it matches any other exotic island in the sun. It was a bright sunnyday and I was taking a lunchtime stroll while covering a ...2 weeks ago -
HMS Bounty joining Schooner Lynx at New Winter Berth
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We recently posted about the Schooner Lynx moving from the West coast to a new berth at the Palm Beach Maritime Museum . She will apparently be in good company. News from the Tallship Bounty organization: After a recent stop in the Azores, Bounty continues her course home to the states and we are ...2 weeks ago -
You gotta jump n jive
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Its widely accepted by my friends and family that I am not a morning person. Themost my brain can cope with before 9.30am is managing to remember my sandwich forlunch, and until this morning I was quite happy with my brain capacity. However this was before I met the most energetic early-morning people ever. ...2 weeks ago -
Divers recover anchor from reputed Blackbeard ship
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An anchor from a shipwreck thought to be Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, was so unstable that divers in North Carolina retrieved it Wednesday rather than waiting until next year.Divers raised the 4.5-foot, 160-pound grapnel, or anchor, from the wreck in the Atlantic Ocean near Beaufort on ...2 weeks ago -
Weekend in Cape Cod
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On Friday, not long after hitting publish on previous blog post here, I loaded the kids into my trusty little Civic and headed to Cape Cod for the weekend. It was dark and rainy, but the drive was pretty easy and peaceful. And when we arrived, just after midnight, we were greeted by two of my wonderful friends who ...2 weeks ago -
Beautiful sisters
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Modelof RMS Mauretania Throughout our lives chance can play a decisive part – perhaps I am tempting fatebut I believe you can change the course of events. I do not subscribe to the theorythat events follow a predestined path. The following story, though, tests my credulity. It really looks as if ...3 weeks ago -
Tenders Out to Break up the City of Adelaide
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It appears that the City of Adelaide , the oldest surviving clipper ship in the world, may soon be broken up. Last week, Peter Maddison, a councillor from Sunderland, where the ship known as the City of Adelaide was built, ended his four day occupation of the ship when he ran out of water. The BBC ...3 weeks ago -
The Daily Habit: History
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Blackbeard’s Boat Uncovered http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_shipwreck_anchor3 weeks ago -
“Privateer” Topsail schooner Lynx Voyaging Westward
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The newborn United States must have been quite a surprise to the Royal Navy during the War of 1812. Not only did the American super-frigates outfight many British frigates, but a swarm of pesky sharp-built privateers, in their day called Baltimore flyers, now more often called Baltimore clippers, wrecked ...3 weeks ago -
QAR Team to Grab the Grapnel
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BEAUFORT – A 4 ½-foot grapnel (a small four-pronged anchor) resting loosely in the sand will be brought up from the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, Oct. 21, near Beaufort. A team of N.C. Department of Cultural Resources archaeologists and conservators will turn to recovery instead of maintenance and preservation at ...3 weeks ago -
Passenger port
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AnIllustrated London News image showing a Cunard ship leaving Liverpool in 1881 My great aunt married as a very young teenager in Malta (this was 100 years ago). The child bride later settled in Knotty Ash after giving birth to three children inquick succession nicknamed Boy, Girl and Baby. ...4 weeks ago -
Fright Night at the Museum: Haunted Hall & Bonehenge
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BEAUFORT – Sea monsters, shipwreck victims, pirates and other maritime ghouls and goblins will inhabit the darkened exhibit hall at the N.C. Maritime Museum on Friday, Oct. 30, from 5:30-8 p.m. Be prepared to be scared by the haunted hall tricks and take home a sweet treat. At the Mad Scientist table, participants ...4 weeks ago
