World War II Navy Submarine
maritime museum based in the Baltimore Inner Harbor, have an opportunity to tour the U.S. Navy submarine that fired the final torpedoes and sank the last two Japanese ships in World War II.
The U.S.S. Torsk, commissioned in the last days of the war, now stands guard next to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. The historic [...]
Marine Wind Generators
Wind generators produce electricity when the wind spins their blades, and the harder the wind blows, the more power they produce.
Many larger sailboats and powerboats — especially those based in the Caribbean, where the wind blows hard almost continuously — mount marine wind generators to capture that wind energy and use it.
But boats in other [...]
Bell was rung, Boat will sail
A 24-hour day is divided into 4-hour segments or watches. When a crew member is “on watch,” that means he or she is on duty, and to be off watch is to be off duty. In order to create an uneven number of watches, so that the crew member isn’t on duty the same time [...]