Quote of the day

 July 17 from tjs

"Fear is the tool of the tyrant" - Maureen Comey after being fired by Donald J. Trump.Of course, he wasn't too kind to her father, either.

The Eagle Blue Chronicles: May 26 from tjsI once witnessed the launching of ...

The Eagle Blue Chronicles:  May 26 from tjsI once witnessed the launching of ...:  May 26 from tjs I once witnessed the launching of a USLines Containership at SunShipyard  sponsor was Austronaut Jim Lovell. After the Cham...

Hurricane Season

 As we approach the hurricane season, I recall an incident in the long ago. With a storm alert, our Port Manager in Port Everglades thought it prudent to fill a 5000gallon 20 ft stainless steel tank with potable water for his employee needs. He then received a call from FEMA who proceeded to appropriate this unit for the emergency. When things settled down we went looking for our unit and finally located it empty at the local zoo. Go figure.

One potato two potato

 July 10 from tjs

In breakbulk days USL put a C2 vessel into Searsport, Maine to load a cargo of bagged potatoes for Europe - it was a post war era. The longshoremen there rigged up a chute to slide the bags down into the hold. During a break the workers, to amuse themselves, began sliding down the chute and the clicker counter counted each as a bag. Upon outturn, the receiving country advised there was a shortage of twenty bags and no one knew why, And that's the way it was!