点击地图与美国一起游览地中海Warren!
A recent inquiry from the Assistant Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World brought a really cool assemblage of watercolors in our collection to my attention. The images were painted by Joseph Partridge, an artist turned Marine stationed aboard USSWarren在1827年和1830年之间。
Hello readers, and welcome back to the Library blog. In response to the continual threat of piracy, the United Nations Security Council recently held its first ever debate on the subject. Lead by Indian ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, the council debated the need for better information sharing techniques, whether or not to continue using armed guards on merchant vessels, and the need for more powerful international laws and punishments for pirates. The full article is available这里。
事实上，这是第一次在联合国安全理事会直接讨论和辩论的盗版，这是一个迹象，可悲的是，盗版并不是在下降。相反，辩论强化了盗版仍然是普遍的概念，并将继续成为一个强大的敌对力量，即世界的国家需要团结起来。虽然索马里海岸的最近近期迈出了我们希望盗版最终能够被击败，但它可能是一个很长的艰难之旅，达成了这一结论。也许世界各国可以在不久的将来团结和粉碎这种祸害。然而，直到发生我们的海上工作人员必须生活在普遍的危害和死亡的威胁下，而世界各地的消费者将不得不为我们所理所当然的许多产品支付额外的费用。
Hello again, readers, and welcome back to the Library blog. A quick look at modern popular culture will make it clear even to the most casual of observers that the Caribbean Pirates of the 17thand 18th世纪是家庭娱乐中的图标。迪士尼的“加勒比海盗”系列已经取得了非常成功，而20th世纪充满了关于Swashbuckling英雄和海上冒险的电影。然而，我们的新闻标题的抽样描绘了盗版的非常不同的图片：集装箱船被篮球被篮球，持有赎金的工作人员和游客被绑架或杀死。事实上，世界认识到这个问题，并部署了几十个战舰，以抵制海盗威胁的商业和个人安全。为什么有盗版主题有这样的二分法？
As a historian, it seems to me that the issue of piracy meets its natural response in the modern headlines: piracy has been reviled and combated since time immemorial, as it should be. The catch is that people also like stories of adventure, romance and rooting for the underdog. English (and by extension, American) culture especially has always had a bit of a rebellious streak, with heroes like Robin Hood robbing the superfluously rich and thumbing their noses at a corruption. For the Anglo-American world, pirates served as an excellent source of rebellious fun once they had faded into the past a bit, and books like Robert Louis Stevenson’s宝藏岛capitalized on this fun in the late 1800s. About two centuries had passed since the buccaneers had last prowled the Caribbean, and it seemed safe to feature pirates as a source of adventure.
你好，有读者，欢迎回到图书馆博客。有些人可能会意识到海运和军队采取的最近采取的安全措施导致全球盗版的显着减少，特别是索马里海岸。武装船只船员，攻击海盗股权和增加海军巡逻等措施所有人都有助于减少这种困扰我们的水道。然而，许多人担心特别是武装船员的一项措施 - 可能具有比积极增益更大的负面影响。为了回应武装人员，一些海盗正在增加自己的火力和无情，以捕获他们的奖品。
但并不是没有希望的!新的安全公司3月ine MTS based in the British city of Aberdeen has developed a new remote vessel tracking system called Sentinel. Sentinel is a software package that monitors the location of a vessel on the water, and can compare this location to local weather and security warnings in order to help the vessel avoid them. In addition, if the vessel departs from its intended course, it can be tracked and followed by operators at Maritime MTS.
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Library blog. Since the early 1700s, Lloyd’s List has been an excellent go-to source for information regarding shipping news. Lloyd’s List – or rather, lists – cover a large swath of information, from updates on worldwide commercial ports to a tabulation of worldwide ship losses. That last particular tabulation is called Lloyd’s Casualty Week, and here at The Mariners’ Museum Library we have a collection of that exact series that stretches from July of 1950 up to the end of 2011. Inside, an amalgamation of all the recent ship casualties is listed on a weekly basis, from natural disasters to fires and even piracy. That last category is especially relevant nowadays, when the global pirating of merchant and personal vessels is more widely recognized in the media.
