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1/x Have you ever heard of a ship that raced another ship with her crew and passengers in a drunken stupor, hit a rock, and caused almost two decades of civil war? One man survived. “No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster”. This is the story of the White Ship. #maritimehistory

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If you conduct an oil spill response exercise using straw to simulate oil, and that straw washes ashore weeks later... can you really call that a successful cleanup? 🧐🤷‍♂️ www.gva.be/binnenland/h...

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High water today is around 3.30pm. They will probably commence lifting operations on the final mast at around 3pm.

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Båda döms för dödsolyckan

The captain and pilot are sentenced after the boat accident off Tjörn with the Misje Verde. A mother and daughter died in the serious boat accident off Tjörn at the end of July. The captain and pilot are now both convicted of crimes. www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver...

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En mamma och en dotter dog i den svåra båtolyckan utanför Tjörn i slutet av juli. Kaptenen och lotsen på det lastfartyg som körde på båten döms nu båda för brott. Rätten menar att de har ”brustit i go...

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Weather conditions are better., They're lowering the cutter head

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

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1/26 In August 1942, an island was weeks from surrender, and everything depended on one tanker. She was torpedoed, bombed, had two aircraft crash onto her, broke her back, was abandoned twice, and arrived with her decks awash, lashed between two destroyers. The SS Ohio. A🧵 #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/x Several times a day, the BBC reads out a list of sea areas, and one of them is named after a man. He took Darwin around the world, invented the weather forecast, was mocked in Parliament and the press for it, and died broken and in debt. Robert FitzRoy. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pilot pick up with the small "jol" (for more pilot boat porn go and follow _sailorsatsea on IG)

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/x For twenty years, British yards built a cargo ship that looked like a submarine wearing a wall: rounded sides, a narrow raised spine running fore and aft, almost no flat deck at all. 176 of them. Then the shape vanished completely because a tax rule changed. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Soooo.... Am I working on a miniature version to put on your desk .... maybe...

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can a wedding be any more perfect?

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/x On a June morning in 1904, a thousand women and children boarded a paddle steamer in New York for a Sunday school picnic. Within an hour, more than a thousand of them were dead, in a burning ship, in a river, in sight of the shore. The General Slocum. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/x Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is taken hostage in a lifeboat, and US Navy SEALs end it after five days. The snipers dealt with the guys in the lifeboat. The Belgians dealt with the guy at the top of the whole trade. A thread.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/x A guy from Bruges, Belgium, raced a sailing car along a Dutch beach at a speed nobody had ever travelled on land, helped give the American dime its name, made decimal fractions part of daily life, and wrote a book on how to find a harbour at sea. Simon Stevin A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/x You've probably seen this video in the news. I want to talk about the whole "She's a small boat; she should have given way to the large vessel" fantasy

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1/x Two 10,000 ton Japanese raiders, sixteen heavy guns, torpedoes, seaplanes, 21 knots, against a corvette with one 12-pounder and a tanker with one old 4-inch. The raiders lost. 11 November 1942. A thread.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1/x 13 December 2021, 0327, Baltic Sea. The UK cargo ship Scot Carrier ploughed into the Danish barge Karin Høj in the Bornholmsgat traffic separation scheme off Sweden. The barge capsized in seconds. Both her crew died. The MAIB investigation is grim reading. A long 🧵

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/x On 19 July 2024 the 656-foot bulk carrier Yangze 7 ran into the back of the 50-foot towboat Miss Peggy in the Houston Ship Channel. The towboat capsized and sank; one of her five crew drowned. The US NTSB published its investigation report in July 2026.

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MSC Renaissance III entering Zandvliet Lock, Antwerp. Heading to drydock to fix a hull breach. She's patched up with a temporary magnetic patch.

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1/x On a misty Sunday morning in 1942, in the empty middle of the South Atlantic, a cargo ship sailing empty met a German warship. The warship ordered her to stop. She attacked instead. Both ships died that morning. This is the SS Stephen Hopkins, and the duel of 27 September. #maritimehistory

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According to Yemeni sources, the Houthi have deployed mines in the Bab el Mandeb. Needs to be confirmed. Not impossible, but against what the houthi claimed in the past that they would not attack shipping indiscriminately (they do have a shaky track record claims vs reality)

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Oman Conducts SAR as US and Iran Argue Over Circumstances of Tanker Attack

The Omani Maritime Security Center confirmed on Tuesday, September 15, that it has undertaken a search and rescue effort for the crew of a Panama-flagged product tanker, while saying that two seafarers are missing. maritime-executive.com/article/oman...

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The Omani Maritime Security Center confirmed on Tuesday, September 15, that it has undertaken a search and rescue effort for the crew of a Panama-flag...

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/x The widest ships in the world are not tankers or aircraft carriers. They are four Norwegian survey vessels, 104 metres long and 70 metres across the stern, shaped like slices of pie. They exist for one purpose: to listen to rocks. This is the Ramform Titan class. #shipbuilding

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The cost of hiring a VLCC on the industry’s benchmark trade (Middle East to the Far East) route has topped $1 million a day for the first time. A year ago, it was less than $100,000 a day.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New cruise ship terminal dock in Whittier catches fire Whittier fire dept. volunteer says ‘half the dock is gone’ to large blaze www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/09/14/n...

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New cruise ship terminal dock in Whittier catches fire

The newly built terminal dock in Whittier caught fire Monday with flames and billowing smoke engulfing the area around the dock.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1/x For my American friends, I might need to explain something. You might notice me writing "Merchant Navy" instead of "Merchant Marine". In the UK, and other countries in Europe, we use Merchant Navy. Why? A short thread

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1/x So, in the last week I witnessed a bit of an ugly discussion on X between John Konrad of GCaptain and others about the status of merchant mariners during wartime. This has spurred me on to make a series of threads about the merchant navy during WW2 and I'm going to start with a statue.

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A Voyage to Bring Norway’s Lighthouses Into the 21st Century (Gift Article)

I posted two threads about lighthouses today. This is a NYT article that I like about Norway's drive to modernize its lighthouses (gift article): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/s...

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More than 2,000 navigational beacons, big and small, oversee the nation’s 60,000-mile-long coast. Now they need an upgrade.

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1/x So... lighthouses... They are quaint. But are they still used? Yes, although less than before, of course, but a prudent mariner will still use them. How? A small🧵 about luminous and nominal ranges. #maritime #maritimenavigation

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