USCGC Tampa: The Cutter That Never Came Home
More than a century after the cutter and her crew disappeared in the final weeks of World War I, divers have finally found them. The […]
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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 […]
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.