The Great White Fleet

At the turn of the century 100 years ago, the United States had just emerged from a series of military excursions in the Caribbean & Central America as well as in the Pacific. In an endeavor to exert a wider international influence, it was decided to build up the navy and to send it on … Read more

Early Wireless

Radio broadcasting from ships goes back a long way, almost to the beginning of wireless experimentation itself. The early experimenters in Europe, including Marconi himself, demonstrated the value of wireless communication by installing primitive experimental apparatus in small boats and transmitting messages across the intervening ocean. This form of wireless communication was also demonstrated in … Read more

Rob Olthof

We are mourning Rob Olthof. *07.12.1945 †23.09.2013 Maandagmorgen 23 september om half 12 kwam er een einde aan een uitzonderlijke vriendschap die Rob Olthof en ik 48 jaar lang hebben gedeeld. De vriendschap is ontstaan dankzij het weekblad dat de jonge babyboomers van destijds, vanaf 1965 konden kopen in de sigarenwinkel en meer: ‘Hitweek’. Het … Read more