5/22/2012 Station Identification and Notice Board

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                    YOUR PORTAL TO THE MARITIME WORLD                  

                                             WEDNESDAY MAY 22, 2013

HMS BOUNTY II, originally built larger than the 18th century original of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY fame, featured for more than twenty years in films and videos and then just one of the many casualties of Super Storm Sandy

                                                   

WEDNESDAY  MAY 22, 2013

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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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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.



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IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY: Not in order of occurrence: (1) News Section UpDate Announcement  (2) BACK THE BOT an appeal for kickstarter pledges for an important oceanographic development (3) How Far Will The Dragon Swim  Is the Dragon building a naval fuel reserve?

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