If you weren’t at the NJ Maritime Museum fundraiser Saturday night, well, you were at the wrong place. Perfect weather. A great turnout. Thanks to the local businesses – LBI and [...]
Please plan to join fellow members, friends and neighbors at the NJ Maritime Museum annual fundraiser. This year, it will occur on Saturday, September 14 rain or shine. Food will be served [...]
Early in September, we had a visit to the museum by Elmer Smith and his family. As he was leaving, he expressed appreciation for the hospitality and promised to be in touch with some information [...]
I recently read a book titled “Into the Raging Sea” by Rachel Slade. This is the story of the sinking and loss of the container ship SS El Faro and all 33 of her crew. El Faro was designed and [...]
The NJ Maritime Museum brochure for 2017 is complete and out for printing. Soon, this brochure will be available – not just at the museum – but also in brochure racks in all the parkway and [...]
I am a shipwreck junkie. No question about it. I enjoyed 30 plus years of diving on them. Now I get (almost) as much enjoyment out of researching them and adding what I learn to the NJ Maritime [...]
One of the rewards of hanging out at the maritime museum is the opportunity to meet and learn from some very knowledgeable history buffs. Among the most gifted and most prolific is Tom Farner. [...]
It’s no accident that boats evolve from the waters they ply. The mariners of Barnegat Bay needed sturdy boats to move cargo across its choppy waters. Single-sail catboats were powerful vessels [...]
After being on-line for two years, the NJ Maritime Museum Shipwreck Data Base is getting a facelift. Not a major makeover. Just a nip and a tuck to make some portions of the data base easier to [...]
It is February 19, 1942. In the darkness of the cold winter morning, the stealthy German submarine U-432 follows the silhouette of a lone freighter steaming north fifty-five miles east of Cape [...]