Sailing ship

age of sixteen. While she was sailing, she got caught in a storm and sent an emergency signal to rescue her. This caused a controversy among the media on whether Abby was too young to sail. Abby was fully capable of sailing the world solo mainly because of her legal rights, as well as her experience and passion. Since there was no standard age to sail alone, Abby was legally able to do so. According to U.S. sailing laws, no person or organization interested in sailing or any activity related…

As I have mentioned Sir Francis Drake crossed the passage, taking sixteen days and he lost four ships in the process. The Passage is named after Sir Francis Drake, although it was alleged to be crossed by a Spanish Marine Explores named Francisco de Hoces in 1525. It wasn’t until 1575 that Sir Francis Drake made his voyage across Drake’s Passage and his ship that crossed the passage was blown south. Crossing Drake’s passage next in 1616 was a Dutch Explorer who was named Willem…

tells of his story of a ship wreck in the freezing Antarctic seas. Lewis had recently graduated from college and was pursuing his dream of being a scientific observer. He received his first job from a fishing company in South Africa who would be fishing south of the island, South Georgia. While out at seas, the boat experiences several mechanical problems during a storm and the crew has to abandon ship. Seventeen crewmembers perished before being rescued by another fishing ship close by, the…

Chapter Summary: 1 Talks about Billy, Bobby, Dale, Sully, and Bugsby, the crew on Adrea Grail, one of the biggest money making fishing boats. A big part of chapter 1 is another crew on a different boat found a bottle with a note in it at Georges Bank, and came from the Falcon, which dissapeared a year before, foreshowdowing what could happen later in the book to Andrea Grail. The rest of the chapter talks about how dangerous Georges bank is and how unpredictable the ocean is. 2 The crew comes…

Ricketts seek out boat and crew for a Marine Science expedition. Fishing out of Monterey bay is no strange occurrence, but Steinbeck’s and Ricketts voyage was quite different from all the other boating operations in the area. They were planning on sailing into the Sea of Cortez between the boarder of Mexico, and Baja California. This territory at the time was still being explored and documented do to the rather rural area that surrounds it, so extreme caution was being taken. The purpose of the…

It was officially Farragut’s first fight at sea, though he did not witness any casualties on his ship during the capture of the Alert, the first ship captured by the US during the War. Arguably, Farragut’s first real fight came on February 13, 1814 in Valparaiso. David Porter was in the process of commanding his ship on a cruise around Cape Horn and made a stop in Valparaiso, before a planned sail to the Galapagos Islands. While there, the crew of the Essex…

power. Dr. Marsetio himself divided the theory of sea power into two such as the theory of sea power from the east and from the west. Speaking about theory of sea power from the east, Cheng Ho who was came from Yunnan Province in West China, was sailing to all over the world and resulting almost 24 geographic sea map. His mission was not to invaded a country but rather to trading, and diplomacy purpose. Therefore, it is proven the use of maritime power for economic purpose and diplomacy rather…

It has an interesting history and nowadays many people love to relive and learn about the final voyage of the Loch Ard. In 1873, a sailing vessel called ‘Loch Ard’ was built by two companies: Charles Connell & Company and Barclay, Curdle & Company in Scotstoun, Scotland. This prodigious boat belonged to the Loch Line group. Indeed, this company owned many sailing vessels, which traveled between Great Britain and Australia. In addition, Loch Ard was a colossal boat at this time with three masts…

bad conditions, the mask of darkness, a open hatch, a worn down crew, a clerical error and a radar malfunction led to the demise of this ship. None of the seven crew members expected these unfortunate events to…

Press-Gangs and for good reasons too. They would find you in the street at night, beat you up, and throw you in a ship. You would have to work on the ship for months on end and your family would have no clue where you went. Other than the shrill thought that you had been impressed. Press-Gangs would look for men aged 18-55, with seafaring habits. Meaning that they knew what they were doing on a ship. Press-Gangs were not supposed to seize foreigners but that rule was easily forgotten because…