Bob Hope and the Medic: An Encounter on the Queen Mary
In September 1939, the RMS Queen Mary was returning to the United States from England on the eve of war. She carried 2,332 passengers—many of […]
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The Lesbians: Three Ships with One Very Queer Name
“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare famously posed this question in Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2. There’s power in a name—it becomes a […]
Book Review: Farnborough by Christopher C. Tubbs
History is full of stories of bravery at sea, but few are as daring—or as secretive—as the Royal Navy’s Q-ships during World War I. These […]
Hidden in the Wake: The Lusitania’s LGBTQ+ History
Last year for Pride Month, I wrote a post about the LGBTQ+ history of RMS Titanic. This year I wanted to focus on RMS Lusitania […]
Silent Night, Deadly Night: The Sinking of SS Léopoldville
On Christmas Eve 1944, the Battle of the Bulge raged in the Ardennes Forest. Adolf Hitler’s war machine launched its last major offensive on December […]
Book Review: The Sailing of the Intrepid by Montel Williams and David Fisher
Moored at Pier 86 in New York City—where some of the greatest ocean liners in history have docked—sits a ship with a storied past. The […]
Book Review: Phantom Fleet by Alexander Rose
Deep inside the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois is something rather unexpected: a World War II German U-boat. Thousands of people […]
Book Review: Inside the Britannic by Simon Mills
Britannic—Titanic’s little sister. The third Olympic-class liner, she suffered the same fate as her older sibling and sank near the Greek island of Kea on […]
Poem: An Elegy for Lucy on the 110th Anniversary
On the 110th anniversary of the Lusitania’s sinking, I wrote an elegy for the ship and those who died in the disaster.
Two Tragedies of Modern Memory: Titanic and the American Civil War
Today marks the 160th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This ultimately led to […]