Marine Artist John A. Noble: Birthday Centenary Celebrations
The Noble Maritime Collection is set to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Staten Island seaman artist. John A. From 1928 until 1945, Noble worked as a seaman on schooners and in marine salvage. In 1928, while on a schooner that was towing out down the Kill van Kull, the waterway that separates Staten Island from New Jersey, he saw the old Port Johnston coal docks for the first time. Filled with new but obsolete wooden ships, the great coalport had become a great boneyard. In 1941, Noble began to build his floating studio there, out of parts of vessels he salvaged.
11 Yacht Race Sailors Rescued off Philippines
The Philippine Coast Guard said that the sailors were on board the yacht "Tipsy Frenz" competing in a sailing race from Hong Kong to Taiwan when it sank A passing Hong Kong cargo ship "Easy Success" which was on its way to the Philippines, rescued the survivors. The PCG said that its vessel BRP Nueva Vizcaya will meet the cargo vessel at the entrance of South Harbor in Manila and will bring the sailors to its headquarters. It is not known whether any of the rescued persons was injured, nor what caused the yacht to sink