Following this weekends hijacking of the Saudi VLCC loaded with crude, gCaptain has been flooded with numerous emails and phone calls from different news organizations trying to lock down information on the surge of world wide pirate attacks.Want the...
Topics: imb, Incidents, ISPS, piracy, pirates, somalia

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When we think of early Aircraft Carriers, most defer to the US Navy converting Jupiter (Collier # 3) in 1920 to CVI Langley. Commissioned in March 1922, Langley was the U.S. Navy’s first conventional aircraft carrier. In October-November 1922, she.
Topics: History, Navy

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The Queen Mary was in service for decades as both a World War II transport ship and a luxury liner. It wasn’t intended as such at the time, but the Queen Mary was named “The Grey Ghost” during the war because of the color she was...
Topics: Halloween, History, Offbeat, queen mary

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The List Universe brings us: Top 10 Unsolved MysteriesMystery number 2, the harrowing tail of the sailing ship: Mary Celeste Mary Celeste was launched in Nova Scotia in 1860. Her original name was “Amazon”. She was 103 ft overall displacing 280 tons.
Topics: Halloween, History

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The legend of The Flying Dutchman is said to have started in 1641 when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope:Vanderdecken’s MistakeIn the year 1729, a Dutch ship called the Flying Dutchman1, captained by the infamous...
Topics: curse, disturbed, masts, sceptical, Uncategorized

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