Outdoor Life – THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY – ALL CRIME, ALL THE TIME

History in Photos: Presidential travel at sea; Harry S. Truman vacation to Bermuda from Washington, D.C.

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021City Desk0

In August of 1946, President Harry Truman and key advisors took a two week trip on the USS Williamsburg to Newport, Rhode Island, via the Potomac River, stopping at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, transiting the Chesapeake Bay, C&D Canal to Newport. They were escorted by a Navy warship and paused in Delaware Bay to […]

COAST GUARD FREES PELICAN HELD PRISONER ON BAY SHIP: assisted Wildlife ER in rescue

October 10, 2020October 11, 2020City Desk0

CAPE CHARLES, VA, UNITED STATES 10.10.2020 Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen Lehmann U.S. Coast Guard District 5 Service members from Coast Guard Station Cape Charles rescued a pelican in distress near Kiptopeke State Park in Cape Charles, Virginia, Oct. 10, 2020. The Coast Guard worked alongside members from Wildlife ER, a non-profit wildlife rehabilitation […]

SUMMER SEA STORIES: Jet ski slammed into moored sailboat; two rescued by Coast Guard from sinking boat off Jersey

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020City Desk1

Jet-Ski Rider Dies After Crashing Into Moored Sailboat in Boston Harbor At approximately 4:30 p.m. on July 27, 2020, the Massachusetts State Police reports that troopers, Boston Police, and Environmental Police responded to a jet-ski crash in Boston Harbor off Malibu Beach in Dorchester. The victim was transported to Boston Medical Center where he was […]

1918 Bay Crossing Study: SPAN WOULD BRIDGE THE CHESAPEAKE

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020City Desk0

Maryland Governor Emerson Harrington appointed a study committee in 1918, as shown in the article below from a Snow Hill, Maryland newspaper – the DEMOCRAT MESSENGER. The ferry above transited the Chesapeake Bay until 1952 when a bridge over the Chesapeake was finally built. 1918 Bay Crossing Study: SPAN WOULD BRIDGE THE CHESAPEAKE Governor Harrington […]

COAST GUARD: Body of Gideon McKean recovered 2,000 feet from where his mother Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean was found in the Chesapeake

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020City Desk0

UPDATE on the recovery of the body of Lt. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s grandson UPDATE BY MD NATURAL RESOURCES POLICE: COAST GUARD: Search suspended for the daughter of former Md. Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and grandson sought in search after going missing in a canoe in rough weather SHADYSIDE, MD. — The daughter and grandson […]