BySeaWaves Magazine – Sep 15, 2026 Bundesmarine On Saturday, September 19, 2026, at 10 a.m., the sail training ship “Gorch Fock” will return to its home port of Kiel after 165 days of absence and more than 14,000 nautical miles from a very special journey. The 189th overseas training voyage took the tall ship, underContinue reading “Gorch Fock Returns to Kiel”
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Nothing like that Northern Wedding
Posted on September 17, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland Some 40 years ago, in the darkest stretch of the Cold War, Exercise Northern Wedding ’86 was a massive, three-week NATO maritime and amphibious exercise conducted from late August to mid-September 1986, involving 150 ships, 35,000 troops, and 500 aircraft from 10 Western nations. The NARA has hundredsContinue reading “Nothing like that Northern Wedding”
German U-boat SM U118. Washed ashore at Hastings on 15 April 1919. (Photos)
Clouds on Cape Cod: The (Four of the) Five Sisters Cup Finish – Photos
Posted on July 13, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland Leave a comment The 400-mile run from the Hudson through the Cape Cod Precautionary Area to Boston by four of the Gorch Fock-class training barques over the weekend was won by Gorch Fock II, which also won the original OpSail76 Five Sisters Race and is the current holder of the Tiffany Trophy. Ironically, theContinue reading “Clouds on Cape Cod: The (Four of the) Five Sisters Cup Finish – Photos”
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