Month: January 2025
The Captain’s Sixth Sense
Docking a ship requires a tremendous amount of skill, ability and resolve. This is especially the case when the weather is bleak and uncooperative. Then there’s docking an ocean liner. While cruise ships today are highly maneuverable and largely don’t need tugboats, liners in the 1960s were downright clunky and relied on them to dock….
Born of Death: The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
By late January 1945, Nazi Germany was on the verge of losing World War II. On the Western Front, its offensive in the Ardennes faile. The Battle of the Bulge was a major Allied victory that saw German forces on the defensive for the rest of the war. On the Eastern Front, the Soviet Union’s…