As the El Faro Wreck Nears Ten Years Past, A New Masterpiece Emerges in Maeve McGoran’s “Shipwreck: How a Captain, Company and Culture Sank The SS El Faro”
Think you know a lot about the SS El Faro? I sure do. I read three great books about the
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The Ship That Wouldn’t Die
Twice rescued, twice transformed, some ships just are overachievers By Robert R. Frump (Time to start writing again about maritime
At the Ninth Anniversary of the SS El Faro Disaster, Here is a Bob Frump Podcast About Maritime Safety, the SS Poet, the SS Marine Electric , the El Faro and Frump’s Forty Years on the Maritime Beat
I sat down with Cyprus-based Captain VS Parani a while back and think this podcast may be of interest to
The SS El Faro Sailed into Hurricane Joaquin and Maritime History Seven Years Ago Today to Become the Most Significant American Wreck of the 21st Century
The SS El Faro and her crew of 33 disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin seven years ago today and the matter
Ten Top Things Wrong with the Merchant Marine
gcaptain.com/top-10-reasons-why-the-us-merchant-marine-is-failing/ Captain Conrad and gCap nail it
From the Archives: The SS Penny, Sister of the Lost Ship SS Poet, Makes One Last Trip
(Circa 1981. The Inquirer had given me a lot of leash to follow the story of the SS Poet and
Recent Maritime Tales: From the SS El Faro to the SS Poet, to Modern Day “Press Gangs” Off the Texas Coast
Modern Day “Impressment” in the Bouchard IncidentBouchard Barges and the Concept of Modern Press GangesIs the situation with those Bouchard
February in Review: From Bad Barges to the Bad Boards of Review to the Marine Electric and the Jones Act
We covered some ground in February. Here is a recap of posts for the month. (Note: Last post here is
Boom! Bang! Dang! With Third World Standards, One of America’s Largest Petroleum Barge Companies Has Posed an Active Safety and Pollution Threat to New York and Texas Coasts, the Coast Guard Says
Boom First the company ran an old rusty barge to the point where vapors seeped out and it exploded killing
The Most Famous Rescues — Followed by the Worst Investigations — The Wrecks of the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer
Nearly everyone who watched the movie The Finest Hours knows the story of the famous rescue back in 1952 —