Belfast Tall Ship Festival

800,000 enjoy Belfast Tall Ships festival - August 18, 2009

The equivalent of half the population of Northern Ireland visited the Tall Ships during their four day stay in Belfast. Organizers estimate that around 800,000 people crowded to the city`s docks for the biggest event ever staged on the island of Ireland.

Great reading by Matthew Maples aboard the bark Europa > "A Young Man and the Sea" http://tallshipsailing.wordpress.com/

http://www.gotobelfast.com/newsroom/photo_gallery/tall_ships_belfast_2009.aspx

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/PICTURE-GALLERY-Tall-Ships-Convoy.5558832.jp

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/tallships/tall-ships-40-vessels-to-dock-in-belfast-as-400000-flock-to-city-14449822.html

http://www.gotobelfast.com/tall_ships_belfast_2009.aspx

Ship Disappears in European Waters - Update

Ship Disappears in European Waters
The Arctic Sea, a cargo ship, was last heard from on July 30 when it was in the Bay of Biscay, according to Russian media reports. It was due in port in Algeria on Aug. 4.


http://news.aol.com/article/arctic-sea-ship-disappears-in-european/614920
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/11/arctic-sea-missing-ship-pirates
http://www.eaglespeak.us/2009/08/martime-security-missing-ship-shows.html
http://www.eaglespeak.us/2009/08/mystery-of-missing-ship-deepens.html
http://www.odin.fm/GPublisher/articles/45-m-v-Arctic-Sea-after-assault-in-Swedish-waters-disappeared-without-any-trace-enroute-Finland-----Algeria.asp

UPDATE > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1206602/Missing-ghost-ship-Arctic-Sea-spotted-Cape-Verde--Russia-says-false-alarm.html