Council of American Master Mariners

Council of American Master Mariners A national organization of active and retired Captains, Pilots and Maritime Associates working for the betterment of the American Merchant Marine

Sailing on the last steam training cruise with Taxas and. Maine cadets. Heading to Halifax  after from New York to Belfa...
06/21/2025

Sailing on the last steam training cruise with Taxas and. Maine cadets. Heading to Halifax after from New York to Belfast.
Showing a little CAMM pride.

06/05/2025

Carl Martin Faanessen, CEO of Manila-based Noatun Maritime, reckons too many column inches are being spent exaggerating the plight of seafarers. “We are at risk of placing an entire group of highly skilled, adaptable and professional workers in a bucket,” he writes. Can we take a moment and plea...

05/20/2025
Today, our Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Brendan the Navigator. The Irish patron saint for seafarers.His N...
05/16/2025

Today, our Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Brendan the Navigator. The Irish patron saint for seafarers.

His Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbott) is a classic. Here is a link to the text:
https://sianechard.ca/web-pages/1285-2/

Here is an article from the Word on Fire: https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/the-fantastic-voyage-of-st-brendan-the-navigator/?gc_id=22274243470&g_special_campaign=true&gad_source=2&gad_campaignid=22270303580&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxJvBBhDuARIsAGUgNfgkwnPQ4Wbu-ge8DbJ6XWR9Fq5RrKaVnyxONtZhAATNfoeFF_JXu-saAuggEALw_wcB

Here is a short video about Brendan's voyage to North America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4WJdzvahGU

And here is a prayer asking for St. Brendan's intercessions:

PRAYER OF ST. BRENDAN
"Help me to journey beyond the familiar
and into the unknown.
Give me the faith to leave old ways
and break fresh ground with You.
Christ of the mysteries, I trust You
to be stronger than each storm within me.
I will trust in the darkness and know
that my times, even now, are in Your hand.
Tune my spirit to the music of heaven,
and somehow, make my obedience count for You."
AMEN.

Saint Brendan the Navigator was an Irish Saint. Brendan is reported to have voyaged to the New World centuries before Columbus. Was Saint Brendan the Navigat...

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05/16/2025

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Email from Port Arthur International Seafarers' Center Announcing: Port Arthur National Maritime Day Observance December 16, 2023 Port Arthur International Seafarers' Center A Home away from home for

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/trump-replaces-nominee-for-maritime-administrator?utm_source=mail_from_05/08/...
05/08/2025

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President Donald Trump has switched nominees for the post of Maritime Administrator, withdrawing the nomination of Capt. Brent Sadler (USN, ret'd...

05/02/2025
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05/02/2025

M.E.B.A. supports the relaunch of the SHIPS for America bill that aims to revitalize U.S. shipping and shipbuilding. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is heading up the bipartisan effort along with Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Rep. Trent Kelly (R-Miss.) and Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA). Left to right on the U.S. Capitol lawn where the bill announcement was made are M.E.B.A. Government Affairs Director Erick Siahaan, M.E.B.A. President Adam Vokac, Sen. Mark Kelly and M.E.B.A. Secretary-Treasurer Roland Rexha. Sen. Kelly noted, "The SHIPS for America Act is the most ambitious effort in a generation to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding and commercial maritime industries and counter China’s dominance over the oceans."

https://www.tradewindsnews.com/shipyards/ships-for-america-act-is-back-as-congress-looks-to-boost-us-maritime-sector/2-1-1813640

https://www.workboat.com/lawmakers-reintroduce-ships-for-america-act

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