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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Thursday, May 22, 2003

Hey, today's National Maritime Day!

It was first proclaimed by FDR in 1933 to honor Merchant Mariners and to commemorate the passage of the steamship SS Savannah across the Atlantic in 1819. The Savannah is generally credited as the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, but it was also rigged for sail, and used its engine only a small portion of the time during the passage.

(Thanks to the magic of Google, we find at least one very partisan fellow who notes that the Dutch ship Curacao made the first transatlantic passage entirely under its own power a few year later in 1826.)

Anyway, go do boaty things to celebrate.

posted by Terry at 1:54:00 PM

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