Atticus Sawatzki's Blog

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the sinking of the SS El Faro, on October 1st, 2015. I was sailing as a Third Assistant Engineer for...

For the same reasons it attracted the bulk of the US Navy’s Atlantic Fleet, geography was to be destiny for Tidewater Virginia’s participati...

What are you going to write about? It should be about ships. If the trend of blog posts is an indicator (Gerry Connolly and Donald Trump, wi...

In the assessment of Zachary Schrag, the professor who wrote the book Great Society Subway, John F. Kennedy was the first American President...

I owe my readers a blog post for July (and for that matter, I ought to be publishing every two weeks- or fortnightly, as I have done for sev...

What I’ve been looking up today: Gerry Connolly, the late representative from the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. I met him at a Kings P...

If you can recall, several years ago I disagreed with renaming the USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) for several reasons: Firstly, there should b...