5/27/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board.

WELCOME TO AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS

                    YOUR PORTAL TO THE MARITIME WORLD                

                                             MONDAY MAY 27, 2013

                                                        MEMORIAL DAY 2013

                                                   

USS MISSOURI IN ACTION

Take a moment and click on the link below to watch THE PATH OF THE WARRIOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKqT0-3JV5E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Lets Us Remember Those Who Paid The Ultimate Price For Our Freedom Today.  We Here Working At AAB Today Pause to Remember Our Friends Among The 134 Crewmen Lost On The Air Craft Carrier Forrestal on July 29, 1967 Off The Coast Of Vietnam In The Worst Air Craft Carrier Fire Since WWII.

RIP Shipmates 

But Let Us Also Remember That The Generation Of American Servicemen And Women With The Highest Per Capita Rate of Combat Participation Since WWII Is The Presently Serving One.

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

MONDAY  MAY 27, 2013   MEMORIAL DAY

TO VIEW A SHORT VIDEO DESCRIBING THIS SITE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFw32RRJY98
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THE NATIONAL ANTHEM TODAY IS PERFORMED AS THE FULL VERSION, MANY AMERICANS HAVE NEVER HEARD THE COMPLETE LYRIC, WHAT IS SUNG AT MOST PUBLIC EVENTS IS A SHORTENED VERSION 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYPN-1Yjt0 Full Lyric version

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NOTICE:   

TIME  RAN OUT ON THE BOT  "KICKSTARTER" FUNDS PROJECT. WE HOPE THIS IS JUST A DELAY AND NOT THE END OF THE PROJECT. 

  Ocean Bots: Learn about, and hopefully contribute to the development of these diving robots intended to help repair the world's damaged coral reefs .Even though the KickStarter Project ended you can probably contribute directly. To learn more about the Coral Bot and its team of developers click here:  http://www.coralbots.org/  to contact the Coral Bot team click here: http://www.coralbots.org/ 

The deadline for contributing to the Kick Starter program was 06:13 Monday morning 5/27/2013.
We post the daily opening station ID at midnight EST. At that time the goal had not been reached.
This is not the end of the Bots however. There is no reason why all those who did pledge can't make a direct contribution, contact the Bot team at http://www.coralbots.org/.

WE STILL "BACK THE BOT" WE URGE YOU TO CONTRIBUTE AND WE'LL KEEP YOU POSTED ON PROGRESS RIGHT HERE.

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THE BIG LINKS LOCKER:

UNLOCKING THE MARITIME WORLD: Our mission is literally to  unlock the maritime world by making all English language maritime data easy to find,  available, evaluated when possible, and affordable. We suggest checking our subject pages to your right first, by clicking on the subject section most like your particular interest. These pages will bring you to short introductions,  free links, free videos, book reviews and book lists on the subjects. If that doesn't answer your question come back here and click any of the "super links" below that appear most appropriate, the broadest and most general is hyper linked just below. This is an entire web site of nothing but links to maritime websites and blogs of every description.

"The Mother of All Maritime Links": 
http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html#top 

If you don't find the book you need among those we have reviewed so far or linked to click into the Amazon general search engine via the link below or as provided within our special interest sections which you reach by clicking on their titles listed to your right.

GENERAL MARITIME BOOK SEARCH :

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=admiralty%2C+marine%2C+maritime%2C+boating

We think the following links to major sites aligned with our "Special Interest Pages" can often provide answers to commonly asked questions:

ADMIRALTY or MARITIME LAW:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/admiralty 

Note: The Cornell site when you arrive in the Admiralty section has two tabs : "Overview" and "Resources". If you are doing legal research the "Resources" tab is a fast route into most relevant statutes, and regulations, Supreme Court Cases, and even some state cases.

GENERAL MARITIME NEWS

WORLD MARITIME NEWS:

http://worldmaritimenews.com/

MARITIME TV: Videos and television broadcasts on all manner of maritime subjects http://www.maritimetv.com/

NAVAL HISTORY:

Naval History Blog, Joint Effort of the U.S. Naval Institute and the Naval history and heritage Command.

http://www.navalhistory.org/

NAVAL NEWS:
USNI NEWS:  http://news.usni.org/author/slagrone  

A NAVAL NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE: NOSI Naval Open Source Intelligence:

http://www.nosi.org/


OCEANOGRAPHY: The Scripts Institute

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu

SHIP RESEARCH: 

SHIPINDEX.ORG

Find publications that mention a particular ship recently or deep into recorded history:  http://www.shipindex.org/  limited free service very reasonable short and long term subscriptions.

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NEWS OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER

NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst

Namazu is our senior maritime analyst and star commentator, many visitors check in just to see what the giant catfish has to say lately. When he has something new we post it in this space. Other wise his stuff is all over the blog postings, and an index to his posts is in the INDEX AND FINDING AIDS SECTION.. At the end of Thursday's day's second posting Namazu predicts the most probable year for the start of the China vs Japan, Philippines, and U.S. naval war over the islands of the China Seas. Today he retells the story of Sgt. Reckless the Marine corps horse, and non biped war heroine.

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SCROLL DOWN FROM HERE:  To read today's posts and keep scrolling to read older posts, or click on a date for posts in the right hand column.

IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY: Not in order of occurrence: (1) Namazu retells the story of Sgt. Reckless (2) Fragments of Hope-A story of coral reef restoration

SPECIAL INTEREST PAGES SUCH AS ADMIRALTY LAW, DIVING, FISHING, BOAT BUILDING ,ETC. : Click on the title of interest in the column on your right.