Stumbling below decks with a lighted lantern or candle on a wooden ship had definite risks. Oil lamps could drip, spill over and light a ship afire in no time. Candles had similar dangers. Lord knows how many ships afire sunk into King Neptune’s world…
Posts tagged as “Mark C. Nuccio”
The new century arrived in 1900 and so did America’s view of its place in the world. With its defeat of Spain in the Spanish -American War, the United States had new claims to be a world power. To flex its muscles meant the refitting…
There was a time when Brooklyn ruled the seas. It’s hard to imagine now. But for over 165 years, Brooklyn built the newest and fastest ships in the world, and it all started in Wallabout Bay where the British starved Colonial prisoners in ghost ships…
Take a boy of nine who couldn’t read or spell, give him a highly illustrated book called “20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA” and what happens? He lives his life as an inventor, artist and writer with a love of all things oceanic. Jules Verne inspired…
From the Jersey side of the New York Bight, along the Long Island Coast, Montauk Point, the shores of Block, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, and into the Sound, as every year goes by, we have been privileged to see the resurgence of ocean mammals. This…
As a lifetime Long Islander (YeahBud! Brooklyn and Queens are Long Island!) I’ve visited ports of call from Red Hook to Montauk and Orient. One of my old favorites was Greenport back when potato farmers drove tractors to town for breakfast at 6:30 AM. The…
There is no doubt the last year and a half has been a particularly trying time for everyone. Recently, however, there have been some bright spots in the water world of competitive sailing. With the easing of Covid this year, the Sayville Yacht Club proudly…
The Hudson River has been called “The Rhine” and ‘’Danube” of America. She is graced by cities, towns, castles, grand estates, mountains, farms, woodlands and marinas. It has been sailed on, fished, fought over, loved, polluted and redeemed by a humble folk singer who devoted…
Not many of us have generations of family who have lived and worked on, and by the sea. Jed Meade is one of those lucky salts. Jed’s family history goes back to the age of sailing ships, and he lives in the house his grandfather,…
There have been many ship disasters in history accounting for large losses in lives. Most of us immediately think “Titanic – 1,128 victims, Lusitania-1,500 and the Andrea Doria – 69 (Including divers)”. All are assumed to have taken place on the ocean. They are documented…