Category Archives: Where’d it come from?
American marine salvage: from The Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corp. to TITAN Salvage
A few weeks ago the US Navy awarded TITAN Salvage the contract to serve as the commercial marine salvage and engineering support contractor for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the division of the US Navy responsible for engineering, building, … Continue reading
So what’s that banner pic about?
You can imagine my surprise yesterday morning when, mired in 1830′s marine salvage research, I found out the day’s post had been Freshly Pressed. Sweet — over the next hour this blog had more hits than it has in an … Continue reading
Filed under Shipwreck culture, Source of the Week, Where'd it come from?
Ireland’s shipwreck landscape
Some places just ooze shipwrecks. Take the west coast of Ireland, a wreck trap for centuries. Blogger Mary Bermingham’s lyric description (recently posted here) wonderfully captures its shipwreck landscape: There are high winds and a strange, warm, misty rain like … Continue reading
Filed under Where'd it come from?, Wrecks in the News
