Click here for some of the previous posts featuring research vessels.
Here was Armstrong yesterday around this hour, but
as of this writing, she’s almost back to Woods Hole, cruising along the southern side of the Elizabeth Islands, an archipelago I’ve never visited.
For more info on
Armstrong and her mission,
click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s happy to see a science ship arrive with the fleet.
For more on the past 400 years of Woods Hole history, click here.
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May 27, 2017 at 9:29 pm
Jim Gallant
Sonetimes back when I was a boy in the 1960’s, when my Dad’s boat was moored in Onset at the south end of the Cape Cod Canal, we used to run out to the Elizabeth Islands to fish, and often to go ashore in the dinghy for picnics and such. Returning one evening from one of those summertime trips when I was just 9 years old in 1968, we had a black and white 12-volt portable TV on board. My older brother was watching live coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, when the rioting broke out outside the Convention Hall. I was too young to fully realize the historical implications of what was going on, but I do remember wondering why all the police officers were attacking the crowds in the street with their billy clubs. It disturbed me to the point that I went outside on the after deck, and laid down on the aft sedan bench at the stern and just stared up at the brilliant stars in the sky above Buzzards Bay, listening to the drone of the engine all the way home. It’s funny what stays with you from childhood, even after nearly fifty years. -Jim.