The Maine Antiques Dealers Association presented Maine’s First Ship with a $1,000 check Wednesday afternoon, one month before the ship’s scheduled launch on June 4.
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Navy requests more destroyers, to be built by BIW or Ingalls
BATH (AP) — The Navy has submitted a request for proposals for more destroyers to be built by either Maine’s Bath Iron Works or Mississippi’s Ingalls shipyard, or both. The Naval Sea Systems Command issued its final request on Thursday for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers built with ballistic missile defense capability. The contract covers the fiscal […]
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Maine Maritime asks Legislature for $1 million to restore the schooner Bowdoin
AUGUSTA — The state’s official sailing vessel, the schooner Bowdoin, is in need of about $2.6 million in renovations, according to the ship’s keepers at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. Capt. Andy Chase, a professor at the academy and former captain of the ship, has helped raise $1.1 million in private funds for the renovation. […]
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Fears rise for 289 still missing more than 24 hours after ferry sinks off South Korea
MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — Strong currents and bad visibility hampered rescuers Thursday in the search for 289 passengers still missing more than 24 hours after their ferry flipped onto its side and filled with cold water off the southern coast of South Korea, causing fury among families waiting for word of passengers who were […]
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U.S. icebreaker to rescue 2 ships in Antarctica
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker left Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent’s eastern edge, officials said. The 122-meter (399-foot) cutter, the Polar Star, is responding to a Jan. 3 request from Australia, Russia […]
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Gorham treasurer hunter selling ship after feud with investors
PORTLAND (AP) — A treasure hunter who boasted that he’d discovered a sunken British merchant ship containing platinum bars worth $3 billion has put his 220-foot ship up for sale and laid off most of his staff. Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research in Gorham, Maine, said the S.S. Port Nicholson, sunk 50 miles off […]
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Maine Maritime ship renamed for 1985 graduate
CASTINE (AP) — Maine Maritime Academy has renamed one of its navigation training vessels in honor of one of the school’s most famous alumna. The 70-foot vessel was dedicated over the weekend in honor of Susan J. Clark, valedictorian of the Castine school’s Class of 1985. Clark was as Portland Harbor’s first female harbor pilot […]
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Hampden Academy graduate assumes command of USS Constitution
CHARLESTOWN, Mass. — A Hampden Academy graduate assumed command of the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat during a ceremony on Friday. Cmdr. Sean Kearns assumed command of the USS Constitution during a change of command ceremony aboard the ship at the Charlestown Navy Yard on Friday morning. Kearns, a 1987 graduate of Hampden Academy, became the […]