Trim Sighting: As far back as cartographers were making maps, usually a sea serpent was included among the various sea monsters in the ocean. A sea monster really was a catch-all name for a sea creature that people didn’t known anything about. People studying the various ocean creatures today conclude that many of these early Read More …
Category: Quirky Ship Names
IOU schooner and the Loss Claim
IOU Schooner: As if it was not silly enough to have a schooner called ICU, there was another ship sailing around the 1860s with the name IOU. Going to show that acronym IOU was in use earlier than we might initially think. Loss of the IOU The interesting thing about the ship named IOU was Read More …