Yarmouth Roads: Open View of the Estuary by Thomas Rowlandson (1756‑1827)
1536 × 527
USAT Dorchester was a United States Army Transport ship that was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat on February 3, 1943, during World War II. It was sailing to Greenland as part of a naval convoy.
The loss of the ship became especially famous because of the story of the death of four Army chaplains, known as the “Four Chaplains” or the “Immortal Chaplains,” who all gave away their life jackets to save others before they died.
Action Funnies
D.C. Comics
1938
Classic Comics #14 Westward Ho! - First Edition (Gilberton, 1943)
Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley. The novel is set in the Elizabethan era, and follows the adventures of Amyas Leigh who sets sail with Francis Drake and other privateers to the Caribbean, where they battle with the Spanish.
Captains Courageous (MGM, R-1973) Adventure / movie poster
Starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin, Mickey Rooney, John Carradine, and Jack La Rue.
Directed by Victor Fleming.
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a fishing boat in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure’s magazine, beginning with the November, 1896 edition. +
The Captain’s Table (Rank, 1959) movie poster
Comedy Starring Peggy Cummins, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray, Maurice Denham, Richard Wattis, Reginald Beckwith, and Lionel Murton. Directed by Jack Lee.
A ship’s captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor and ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the new position involves, not least the way he becomes the target for all the comely unattached women on board. (imdb)
Tuesday’s Nautical Mystery Movie; Name that flick…
Tora! Tora! Tora! was a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatized the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Directed by Richard Fleischer and featuring an ensemble cast including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore and Jason Robards…
The Woman on Pier 13 (RKO, 1950). Three Sheet
Successful, newly married Brad Collins once belonged to the Communist Party of the USA, and now the Party will stop at nothing to use him. (imdb)
Film Noir; Starring Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter, Richard Rober, William Talman, and Paul Guilfoyle. Directed by Robert Stevenson.
Coming this week on Maritime Monday:
Tora! Tora! Tora! (20th Century Fox, 1970). One Sheet
Starring Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Frank Aletter, Leon Ames, and Richard Anderson. Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda.
Titanic (20th Century Fox, 1953) One Sheet
Starring Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter, Brian Aherne, Richard Basehart, Allyn Joslyn, James Todd, Frances Bergen, and William Johnstone.
Directed by Jean Negulesco.
Titanic (1953 film) won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. The film was also nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award.
World War II film about US Navy dirigibles starring Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, and James Gleason, and directed by William A. Wellman. This film is one of the very few movies except training films to depict this military unit.
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