Certain items of information are expected to be included in US Navy ships’ logs—ship’s location, connection to pier, material condition, condition of readiness, other ships present, source of power, location of SOPA—and there are only so many ways this limited … Continue reading →
In February of 2023, McFarland Books published the first book-length treatment of an old US Navy tradition of writing the first deck log entry of the New Year in verse. Titled Midwatch in Verse: New Year’s Deck Log Poetry of … Continue reading →
The Ship: USS Idaho (BB 42) was a New Mexico-class dreadnaught battleship commissioned March 24, 1919. While returning from exercises in the western Pacific in late 1925, Idaho carried the famous Naval airman Commander John Rodgers back to San Francisco … Continue reading →