"Believe it or not, the story of USS Monitor starts with this vessel."
"This was the time of kings, an era of Scandinavian supremacy over the Atlantic sea waves, a time of conquest and of the great northern sea Empire, the age of the dragon boats."
"The seafaring heritage of the Carthaginians remains unparalleled."
"When the Edmund Fitzgerald launched in 1958, it was the largest ship to sail on the Great Lakes, just one foot below the maximum allowed length of 730."
"The boat became a local legend on both sides of the US-Canada border and earned it the nickname 'The Titanic of the Great Lakes.'"
"The Seawise Giant... throughout its 30-year lifespan, it was renamed six times, changed hands equally as many times, and survived being sunk by a missile."
"The introduction of the SS Kaiser Wilhelm de Grossa was a global sensation, marking a new era in maritime luxury and speed."
"Sydney to Hobart '98 yacht race is Australia's biggest ever peacetime rescue operation."
"The ningan is a cryptic and intriguing part of Maritime folklore."
"In 1629, a Dutch merchant vessel called the Batavia ran aground on a small coral island roughly 37 miles off the Australian coast."
"When a believer genuinely asks Allah for forgiveness, then they should know in their heart that Allah forgave. You should not doubt that Allah forgave."
"Without them, the world may never have heard the distress signals, and we'd likely still be trying to work out what happened to this day."
"Violet Jessup survived all three ship disasters... insane, but she kept going."
"Two thousand men died in the high seas trying to stop slavery."
"From the sea have come wealth, power, and new ideas from across the globe."
"The real reason these men were never seen again will likely never be known as it persists to be one of the most perplexing disappearances in Maritime history."
"Companies had already insured the ship's cargo over 100 years earlier so they all decided to divide the treasure with almost all of it going to the companies."
"The number of people: 'The proportion of people in a given nation associated with seafaring was a major factor...'"
"Bellamy was captain of one of the most powerful ships on the sea."
"The Mary Celeste has become synonymous with the very idea of a ghost ship being the first ship that people think of when they hear the term."
"She stole the Blue Riband on her maiden voyage and keeps it to this day."
"An extraordinary scale: 1,600 ships refitted or built from scratch."
"China didn't go to sea for fun. China went to sea to make money like all great maritime powers."
"The legend of the ship the enemy simply could not sink."
"Recounting the story of the wreck of the Glen Aslan captures this sense of romance and adventure beautifully."
"A wooden Stone Age platform was found on the seabed close to England's Isle of Wight in mid-2019, and it might be the oldest boat-building site in the world."
"The most exciting Maritime Discovery since the Mary Rose in 1982."
"Mariners of ancient times measured and mapped the earth with fantastic precision."
"The final Buccaneer, the final one carrying the true story of NAA."
"Fortune favors the bold, and luckily for you, Buccaneers and Pirate Republics have a clear advantage."
"The importance of the maritime Silk Road cannot be overstated."
"Their sagas sending messages over millennia when people see their ships coming they will either be very impressed or very frightened."
"Sailing into the wind, often seen as the greatest obstacle to the colonization of the Pacific, made sense."
"The story of the human conquest of the sea can never be complete because these people wrote its first chapter."
"Thor Heyerdal showed the academic world today that 58 centuries ago you could sail anywhere in the world in a reed ship."
"When Greek divers on a boat at the turn of the century hit a storm on the island of Antikythera..."
"The discovery of Endurance is considered to be one of the most challenging shipwreck explorations to this day."
"The world travels by boat. The natural advantage, the historical advantages of Greece in this area are to be seized and exploited."
"Completing the deepest known shipwreck dive in history."
"The mystery of the Mary Celeste continues to baffle."
"This is the largest shipwreck collection ever found in a single side."
"The Spanish galleon San Jose: sunk off the coast of Cartagena with billions in treasure."
"Some scholars believe that there’s evidence of African people making contact with people in South America once again long before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492."
"On January 20, 1914, the London International convention officially adopted SOS as the standard distress signal."
"Titanic's crown as the largest steamship would barely last longer than a year by June 1913. SS Imperator would enter service limping in at almost 6,000 more tons than Titanic."
"While the memory of the Titanic lives on, for more than seven decades, the ship itself remained lost, hidden somewhere beneath the vast North Atlantic."
"Control over the maritime Silk Road... invaluable."
"Joshua left a bit of a legend, and it's that legend of each man in time having they desired the dream to go to sea."
"Edward Collins, the owner of the Collins Line, had just lost half of his family in the sinking and would never be the same again."
"There are no proper memorials. This is an era of ships that has mostly been forgotten and a company of ships buried in history."
"The Mary Celeste: a ghost ship vanished into thin air."
"Britannic had one of the most fascinating careers of any ship, serving in two world wars and providing safe passage for hundreds of thousands of people."
"Indian ships were much more durable than English ships."
"Scientists believe that there was once a continent which formerly filled a large part of the world's most extensive maritime basin."
"There's just something so Victorian and Industrial about the tall straight funnels of Titanic's day."
"The loss of one of the greatest ships in the world to something as trivial as some matches and some straw really represents the risks of the age of sail."
"Let this saga of the flying clipper ships take us back to those pre-war days."
"From 3000 BCE onward, they used different sailing boats along with outrigger canoes and catamarans to disperse across the Indo-Pacific islands."
"The USS Constitution whooped the derriere of the HMS Guerriere and earned itself the nickname Old Ironsides."
"Titanic should not have been there at that time... sailing into an ice field at full speed."
"The Mary Celeste, magnificent isn't she? This 280-ton Brigantine was found fully seaworthy and floating unmanned in the Atlantic in 1872, abandoned by her entire crew and passengers."
"The Titanic is undoubtedly the most famous ship to have ever sailed."
"Bill Pinkney: a trailblazing mariner who broke racial barriers."
"The Khufu ship is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity."
"This is the story of the USS Indianapolis, the most remarkable ship ever to sail the seven seas."
"Joshua Slocum became the first man on Earth to complete a solo sail around the world."
"Exploring how the first ocean liner of its kind actually worked and what life was really like for the crew."
"Back in 1823, a boat named the Jenny left port on an exploration. However, along the way, something went wrong, and it seems like the men aboard starved and then froze to death."
"Adriatic was the first passenger ship in the world to have a proper swimming pool."
"...the risks these Mariners were forced to take in order to achieve these goals made shipwrecks a way of life for the people of the Great Lakes."
"The ships and their passengers were never found, and de la Peruse became part of an unsolved historic mystery."
"The Arabs eventually obtained large latine sails."
"Arab ships already traded with the African side of the Red and Arabian Seas thousands of years ago."
"The design could be applied to junks of all sizes, from smaller river craft to massive ocean-going liners."
"China's maritime past is one of the most glorious chapters because it's unique."
"More than 3,000 shipwrecks are lying around the island."
"Before comprehensive charts were created and readily available, ships relied on Navigators who knew the waters they were sailing through to chart a safe course."
"RMS Queen Mary: A floating hotel with a haunted reputation, where guests might encounter long-gone passengers in ghostly form."
"Thomas's greatest achievement was Duart, built on the Turin reef 12 miles west of the Ross of Mull, lying in an important shipping channel. It had claimed 30 ships in just over half a century."
"We do have a very proud maritime history in this country."
"About 5% of East India Company ships never came back."
"Legend states that on December 5th, 1880, a ship known as The Ellen Austin left Liverpool and headed towards New York. While on their trip, the crew spotted a creepy ship floating in fog."
"There have been numerous sightings of the HMS Eurydice since then."
"This submarine maybe more than any other has been left in the most original condition that you can possibly find. And that includes how you access the submarine. So in order to get into the Razorback, well, you have to go in just like the crew did through one of these hatches."
"The shipwreck of Shackleton's Endurance."
"To date, authorities disagree on the specific factors which contributed to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and to this day, the true cause of the freighter’s capsizal remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the Great Lakes."
"The prosperity brought about by schooners and steamers came with a heavy price: lost lives, and a lake bottom littered with shipwrecks."
"In the hearts of the British nation, the heroic Cutty Sark was the true winner."
"It was said to be the largest safest ship afloat but on its maiden voyage in 1912 1500 people perished when it struck an iceberg and sank name the ship the Titanic corrected you have 400."
"The one constant definition I can give is that a Block Island wrecker is somebody who makes a living off of all the shipwrecks that happen on and around Block Island."
"These crews weren't exactly like saving ships out of the goodness of their heart or anything, but still, like, it seems to me like most Sailors were pretty appreciative of the Block Island Records."
"It's just so easy to imagine everybody swarming down from these giant Bluffs rushing to their boats eager to head out into the storm to negotiate a deal."
"These shipwrecks are thousands of years old and might potentially rewrite the maritime history of Southeast Asia."
"Nobody knows how long the stone spent at sea before it was washed up, but its thick coating of green algae suggests it was quite a while."
"This lends credence to the possibility that ancient people could have exploited the natural highways formed by the Atlantic currents and winds."
"People have a special feeling still about this ship and they're very emotional when they come back and see her again."
"...the mighty and unsinkable Edmund Fitzgerald."
"The SS California was very close to the Titanic when it sank, but they turned off their radio when they did not hear the SOS calls."
"Poached salmon with mousseline sauce and cucumbers: a signature dish of the White Star Line."
"Her name is easily the most recognizable ship's name in history; her story is legend. She is, of course, Enterprise."
"This is the story of these men, a vanishing breed: the sailing oystermen."
"New Orleans was basically a bustling maritime entrepot."
"The Piri Reis map shows the northern part of Antarctica ice-free, which has led to speculations about ancient maritime civilizations."
"I've always been so fascinated with the Titanic."
"If these planks could talk, what stories these boats would tell."
"Britain was the dominant maritime power of the period, that is beyond dispute."
"Our mission is to promote, protect, preserve, and expand our nation's understanding of our Maritime history."
"The southern junk that East Asian merchants use in the maritime trade of Asia for centuries was actually developed and adopted from the ship designs of our own Austronesian ancestors."
"Among the largest wooden sailing ships ever built, they carried cargos of China's most precious products to be traded for the treasures the Chinese emperor and his kingdom coveted."
"If not for the kindness of the Visayans, then perhaps many of the Europeans would have died in the middle of the sea."
"There is still 50,000 wrecks in the Baltic Sea."
"The Titanic was believed to be Unsinkable."
"It's not only wars that create shipwrecks."
"A legendary ship was now in the water for the first time."
"The maiden voyage of Mauritania commenced on a promising note as the ship gracefully glided into Queenstown, Ireland, to embark passengers and exchange mail."
"Through it all, Mauritania reigned supreme, holding on to the blue ribband for an astonishing 19 years."
"As the most esteemed symbol of maritime triumph, she left an indelible mark on history, forever celebrated as the embodiment of boundless achievement and an unwavering legacy."
"This stretch of shore has claimed hundreds of lives through a number of brutal shipwrecks."
"The competition between nations to build the largest, most powerful ocean liners was something like the space race of the era."
"Steam power effectively ended the age of sail."
"It's the only remaining surviving White Star Line ship in the world."
"Remember how Thomas Andrews had told some passengers on the Titanic that the ship could be cut into three individual pieces and each piece would float?"
"I'm on a mission to rebuild and restore this one hundred and eight year old classic sailing yacht Tallyho."
"This bar pays tribute to Carnival's 50 years of fun and maritime history."
"The sea put the Great in Great Britain. International Trade, politics, and our military success have all depended on controlling the oceans."
"Celtic was one of the first White Star liners to be designed prioritizing passenger comfort over speed."
"Designing these ships to sustain general comfort against harsh storms was a wise move and a testament to the whole comfort over speed thing."
"The Big Four were all gorgeous steamers and stood as resilient and notable ships for the White Star Line."
"The mega battle for the oceans involves epic clashes, daring harbor raids, and covert underwater adventures that have churned the seas through the ages."
"Historically, it had been two-man teams that managed a lighthouse, but this was increased to a minimum of three following what became known as the Smalls Lighthouse tragedy."
"My fascination with the sea was cemented."
"Those who have dived her report seeing the four men still at their positions, keeping spectral watch from the wheelhouse."
"Although Titanic had lifeboat space for 1178 people, there are nearly 500 seats that were sent away empty."
"Britain dominated naval power throughout the nineteenth century, and the Empire was, of course, a maritime-based one."
"The CSS Georgia doesn't give up her secrets very easily."
"I love how they are reusing and recycling the ships on new ships to really pay tribute to their history."
"Welcome to Queen Mary 2, this incredible ship is the only ocean liner remaining in service in the world today."
"In the beginning, all the way back in 1906, we're going to see what's going to become really the standard Great Lakes freighter design for several decades in the early 20th century."
"In Aquatic Park Cove, you get to share the anchorage with these historic boats behind you, which are part of the National Park Service Maritime Museum."
"Ching Xi, one of the most successful pirates in history, controlled a fleet of 1,200 ships crewed by about 70,000 pirates."
"Australia's treacherous coast and coral reefs have claimed over 8,000 ships."
"Once upon a time, they were the proud queens of the seas."
"The driving force behind all of this was trade and the Dutch merchant fleet, which eventually included more than two thousand ships, more than the fleets of England and France combined."
"A Clipper ship called the Flying Cloud entered San Francisco, having left Harbor under the guidance of him and his wife."
"Sour in alcohol, that goes back to the maritime era, whenever they determined that scurvy can be prevented with some vitamin C and fruits and limes and lemons and whatnot."
"Quite a few ships were sunk at sea at various points and for various reasons after the tests were complete."
"It's bigger than most other burial boats found in Norway, large enough to carry six men across huge bodies of water."
"The building of one of the largest keys in Europe would herald a golden age of maritime activity for Waterford."
"If this is actually the Triumfante, it will be the first study of a ship built following the groundbreaking designs of one of the most important ship designers of the 18th century."
"The change of mentality took place at the end of the 70s in the early 80s when the sunken ship began to be seen as a historical document."
"It was an amazing time for maritime navigation and seamanship."
"The Mary Celeste moored in New York at Pier 50 and she was made ready for yet another Atlantic Crossing in her career."
"It seems like there's not as much information out here for the Virginia sloop as there are for other boats, so that'll make a bit of a challenge, but at the same time, that'll make it fun."
"It is worth considering finally to say, of course, the ships are beautiful, but there's more to it than that."
"The tower of Belem, which greeted mariners upon their return to Portugal."
"The relays had been well remembered and frequently discussed as vivid incidents in the quiet life of a New England seaport."
"It is believed they used rafts or boats around 60,000 years ago with groups of diverse people settling in the archipelago."
"There are countless tales of maritime expeditions which resulted in catastrophic injury, death, or the mysterious disappearances of those on board."
"The Cutty Sark was one of the fastest sailing ships that has ever been built."
"Before the Panama Canal was built, ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans passed a cape on Tierra del Fuego."
"Scurvy killed more sailors than shipwrecks and encounters with natives and other perils of the ocean."
"We were part of a large group of enthusiasts who would be celebrating the Norway's special heritage and history as French Line's SS France."
"With an estimated 3 million shipwrecks unaccounted for still at the bottom of the ocean, it's no wonder there's a lot of intrigue surrounding shipwrecks."
"Into the lighthouse moved the only woman lighthouse tender in the United States."
"Drake was the first captain to complete the feat of circumnavigation."
"If you want to learn anything about the design of Titanic or Olympic, you need to study the ships that came before them."
"In the old days, it was wooden ships and iron men."
"Unlike the other two ships of this fleet, the RMS Olympic did not sink."
"It was the White Star Line's intention that this ship, along with her two sisters, Olympic and Titanic, would be the biggest and most luxurious vessels on the Atlantic."
"This made the Wyoming the largest wooden ship ever built."
"This is Den Helder, a saltwater city filled with old ships still headed for distant shores to bring back rum and coffee."
"The Titanic and all ships that were part of the Olympic class were extremely well-built and very safe vessels."
"Cutty Sark, the Greyhound of the sea, is the best known historic vessel."