Fair Winds & Following Seas

Movie Review – The Finest Hours (2016)

April 3, 2022 Tim Migaki

“We all live or we all die.” BM1 Bernie Webber Director: Craig Gillespie Producers: Jim Whitaker, Dorothy Aufiero Starring: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster,

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Book Review: The Finest Hours by Michael Tougias and Casey Sherman

March 27, 2022 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Published in 2009, this is yet another history of the Fort Mercer and Pendleton disasters, which were two T2 tankers that split

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Book Review: Two Tankers Down by Robert Frump

March 20, 2022 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Published in 2008, this is a history of the T2 tankers Fort Mercer and Pendleton, which split in half off the coast

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Book Review: Rescue At The Top of The World by Shawn Shallow

February 27, 2022 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Published in 2005, this is a dramatized narrative of the Overland Relief Expedition where three men of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear,

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Book Review: So Others May Live by Martha LaGuardia-Kotite

February 13, 2022 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Published in 2006, this book examines the development of the U.S. Coast Guard’s rescue swimmer program in the 1980s before chronicling several

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Book Review: Life and Death at Cape Disappointment by Christopher D’Amelio

February 6, 2022 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content This 2021 memoir chronicles U.S. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christopher D’Amelio’s time as a surfman at Coast Guard Station Cape

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Book Review: All Present and Accounted For by Steven Craig

January 2, 2022 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content A history of the Hamilton-class U.S. Coast Guard cutter Jarvis (WHEC-725) and her grounding and near sinking in 1972. The book is

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Book Review: Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix & Linton Wells

December 12, 2021 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Published in 1997, this massive 800+ page door stopper examines the various light and heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The

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What is Bad History?

December 5, 2021 Tim Migaki

There has been much discussion over the content and curriculum that is being, should be, or should not be taught in social studies and history

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Book Review: The Art of Wargaming by Peter Perla

November 28, 2021 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Originally published in 1990, this second edition was edited by John Curry and published in 2011. A treatise on the theoretical aspects

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Book Review: How to Study History by Norman Cantor & Richard Schneider

October 31, 2021 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Published in 1967 and similar in subject (but not necessarily in content or presentation) to Conal Furay and Michael Salevouris’s The Methods

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Book Review: A Companion to the Study of History by Michael Stanford

October 17, 2021 Tim Migaki

Topic & Content Published in 1994, this book is about the theoretical and philosophical concepts behind the study of history as past events and the

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Sailor Speak of the Week – Seacock

May 11, 2022 Tim Migaki

Definition Noun An opening through the hull below the waterline, with the valve, to let a controllable amount of seawater in. Origin Probably the 16th

The Executor & the Operations of Death Squadron [WIP]

May 4, 2022 Tim Migaki

Galactic Imperial Navy Star Dreadnought/Super Star Destroyer NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS CURRENTLY A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, BUT I WANTED TO AT LEAST GET SOMETHING OUT FOR MAY

Sailor Speak of the Week – Royal

May 4, 2022 Tim Migaki

Definition Noun A small sail hoisted above the topgallant sail. Origin The 17th century. Comments The term possibly came from the idea that anything royal

Sailor Speak of the Week – Quartermaster

April 27, 2022 Tim Migaki

Definition Noun A rating in the sea services for a petty officer that attends to navigational duties such as steering the vessel, signaling, and attending

Sailor Speak of the Week – Prow

April 20, 2022 Tim Migaki

Definition Noun An older term for the bow of any vessel. Origin 16th century. From the Old French word, proue, and back to the Old

Book Review: The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester

April 17, 2022 Tim Migaki

Topic Set sometime during the Battle of the Atlantic, U.S. Navy Commander George Krause assumes his first command aboard the fictional Mahan-class destroyer, USS Keeling.

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