History of Maritime

Cutty Sark - whisky - was created in 1923.

Leif Ericson was the first European Viking to set foot in the New World ( America), 500 years before Christopher Columbus. However, the vikings made few voyages to America after Leif and it was forgotten again until Christopher Columbus found it again in 1492.

It was rainy a not very nice weather and it was very cold most of the time they were wooden ships

They were poorly defended with the exception of Singapore and the Japanese had crippled the largest pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor

Matthew Flinders did not discover Australia. Australia had already been "discovered" by the Aborigines, followed by Asian traders of trepang (sea slugs), followed by Dutch seaman Willem Jansz in 1606.

Columbus was about 41 on his first voyage.

The Challenger expedition of 1872 to 1876 was the first expedition entirely devoted to marine science.

The US Navy is older than the USA. The birthday of the US Navy is October 13, 1775. The Royal Navy of Great Britain is traced back to before the ninth century. The present Royal Navy was formally created as the national naval force of the Kingdom of England in 1660. As history repeats itself in cycles, before the British Navy there was The Spanish Armada (Grande y Felicísima Armada or Armada Invencible) literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy" or "Invincible Fleet") was the Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1588. The purpose to overthrow Elizabeth I of England and end her involvement in the Spanish Netherlands her privateers in the Atlantic and Pacific. We then go to the Roman Navy, during the course of the First Punic War (264 BC), the Roman navy was massively expanded during that war. Before that... The Greek and the Persian navy were both quite powerful. You have to go into the dark days of unwritten history at this point as fires, book worms, and other misfortune tidied up, but in the year 2000 BC or so the Egyptians had a naval force considered the leader. I imagine even before that there were boys battling each other in the creeks and stream to dominate the know world and their brothers.

The Titanic's sister ships were called the Olympic and the Britannic. The Olympic was the 'lead ship' and built first. The Britannic was built after the Titanic and was originally going to be called the Gigantic.

John Paul Jones is considered to be the "Father of the American Navy."

Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan is probably the "Father of Modern Navies."

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover is the "Father of the Nuclear Navy."

It is a mutiny.

The most famous is the USS Maine (ACR-1) that was sunk near Havana; its captain at the time was Captain Charles Sigsbee.

1924, he became a flying cadet in the United States Air Reserve, training at Brooks and Kelly fields near San Antonio, Texas. He graduated with a pursuit pilot's rating and a rank of second lieutenant. The Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis hired him as a test pilot, flying mail from St. Louis to Chicago. 1927, First successful Solo Transatlantic Flight from the New York to Paris.

He developed the artificial heart and lung, with the help of Dr. Alexis Carrel.

1929, he did flyby photographs of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula.

He had Six Siblings

A clipper is a fast-sailing ship used in the early maritime days. It had three masts, was square-rigged, and the hull was designed to slice through the water.

Sao Cristovao (Saint Christopher)

(la Nina was Christopher Columbus's)

Vespucci really wasn't that significant in history, but a map maker read his book and believed his claim about finding North America. He over stated his explorations in his book. The London map society in the 1800's proved he only landed in South America. Yet, the map maker in the 1500's named North America after Vespucci.

Sailing.

the astrolabe was used to determine:

1. the position of the sun, moon, and other heavenly bodies

2. the accurate time of celestial events like sunrises, sunsets, phases of the moon, etc.

3. to determine latitude, longitude, and altitude

4. used in surveying, navigation, and triangulation ( trigonometry and geometry.

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was a Portuguese explorer who was the first European to navigate the coast of present day California. He was also one of the founders of the city of Oaxaca, in Mexico.

The Beothuk were a first nations people living in Newfoundland.

The last known Beothuk died in 1829.

The Titanic set sail April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England on its maiden voyage to New York.