The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just the opposite was the case with little to no population concentration in major industrial centres as the predominantly rural resource-dependent Maritime economy continued on the same path as it had since European settlement on the region's shores.

The traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S. A. Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center – best known as simply " The Center " – has occupied the former Food & Maritime Trades High School at 208 West 13th Street since 1984.

This low pressure zone attracts the Tropical Maritime Airmass ( MT ) from the south Atlantic Ocean since areas of low pressures experiences inward blowing winds because winds are moving air blowing outwards from regions of high pressure to regions of low pressure.

There had been significant buildings on this land since the reign of William I. Greenwich Palace, next to the site of the present-day Maritime Museum was the birthplace of Henry VIII and the Tudors used Greenwich Castle, which was built on the land that the Observatory now stands on.

*, ex-T-AK-290, a vehicle cargo ship in non-commissioned Military Sealift Command service as USNS Pollux ( T-AKR-290 ) from 1981 to 2007, since 2007 maintained by the United States Maritime Administration as part of the Ready Reserve Force

The " Rijkswet " of December 12, 1985, for the maritime boundaries between The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, and the Maritime Boundaries Treaty signed March 31, 1978, between the Republic of Venezuela and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, introduced December 12, 1978, and valid for Aruba since January 1, 1986.

The Maritime Festivals were organised by the Whitehaven Festival Company, made up a of board of volunteers, who have since launched new events in the town.

Member of the Socialist Party ( PS ) since 1974, he was first elected to the National Assembly in 1978 for the fourth constituency of Seine Maritime département.

A variation of the fez has been commonly worn in Maritime Southeast Asia since the 19th century when it was introduced by Muslims from South Asia.

Its principal work since 1973 has been the implementation of the IALA Maritime Buoyage System.

The October 12, 1984, ICJ ruling, Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area ( Canada / United States of America ), has since highlighted a gap in the maritime boundary for several dozen kilometres between the current end of the International Boundary and the 1984 Gulf of Maine boundary starting point.

When Château-Renault had set out for the Caribbean in 1701, war between France and the Maritime Powers had not yet been declared ; but the convoy had since received news of the outbreak of hostilities and of Rooke's blockade of Cádiz, the usual destination of the silver fleet from America.

* Coriolis: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime Studies ( online academic publication ), a peer-reviewed academic journal available freely and online since 2010

He has been an adjunct professor at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History since 1990 and served as its director from 1996 to 2001.

The factory in Killybegs closed in 2003 and has been open since 2006 as the Maritime & Heritage Centre.

The city has been a major naval shipbuilding centre from the 18th century, being the capital of the Spanish Navy's Maritime Department of the North since the time of the early Bourbons.

The 1913 Port Chalmers Old Identities Society's collection was transferred to the old Post Office building and reopened as the Port Chalmers Museum in 1987, and has since been renamed the Regional Maritime Museum.

The United States Maritime Commission was an independent executive agency of the U. S. federal government that was created by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, passed by Congress on June 29, 1936, and replaced the United States Shipping Board which had existed since World War I.

She was purchased ( Oct 2006 ) by the owner of the Inveraray Maritime Museum who carried out some work on her but she has since been resold to a new owner who has already started on her major restoration work.

CRM has since been adopted in different industries and organizations including fire services ( to improve situational awareness on the fireground ) and the maritime industry, where CRM is referred to as BRM ( Bridge Resource Management ) or MRM ( Maritime Resource Management ).

They have been published by Conway Maritime Press ( now Conway Publishing ) since the 1980s, and republished in the US by the Naval Institute Press.

A Maritime Union ( or an Atlantic Union ) would face significant political challenges in gaining broad acceptance across the region, particularly where the existing provinces trace their history since European discovery for several centuries.

During the Second World War the Canadian Army built a large military supply base in the city to service the Maritime military establishment.

* Nan Godet, Dr Edward Harris, Pillars of the Bridge: The Establishment of the United States bases on Bermuda during the Second World War ( Bermuda Maritime Museum, Dockyard, 1991 )

( For more detail of the first investors in the Cunard Line and also the early life of Charles Maciver, see Liverpool Nautical Research Society's Second Merseyside Maritime History pp 33 – 37 1991.

During the Second World War he joined the U. S. Maritime Service.

When the Qing Chinese government was terrified by the advance of the Anglo-French expedition of 1860 and the burning of the Summer Palace in the Second Opium War, he worked on their fears so dexterously that, in the Convention of Peking, he obtained for Russia Outer Manchuria – not only the left bank of the Amur, the original object of the mission, but also a large extent of territory and seacoast south of that river that would become the Russian Maritime Province.

Naval Weapons Station Yorktown hosts 25 tenant commands which include the Navy Munitions Command, the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity, the Marine Corps Second Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk detachment, Navy Expeditionary Medical Support Command, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, Riverine Squadron THREE, Maritime Civil Affairs Squadron TWO, and 19 Storefronts.

** Lui Tuck Yew, Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Chief of Navy and former Chief Executive of the Maritime and Port Authority, Singapore

Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the centre of Liverpool, England, where a system of intertwining waterways and docks is now being developed for mainly residential and leisure use.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

Additionally outside the region, Kibibati is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the IMF, International Maritime Organization, International Olympic Committee, International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), Universal Postal Union and the World Meteorological Organization.

The UN World Maritime University is also located in Malmö.

The World Maritime University ( WMU ) operates under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), a specialized agency of the United Nations.

North Korea also belongs to the Food and Agriculture Organization ; the International Civil Aviation Organization ; the International Postal Union ; the UN Conference on Trade and Development ; the ITU ; the UN Development Programme ; the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ; the World Health Organization ; the World Intellectual Property Organization ; the World Meteorological Organization ; the International Maritime Organization ; the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Non-Aligned Movement.

The War of 1812 had some effect on the shipping industry in the Maritime colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton Island ; however, the significant Royal Navy presence in Halifax and other ports in the region prevented any serious attempts by American raiders.

* February 7 – Maritime Commission fleet operations transferred to War Shipping Administration ( lasting until September 1, 1946 ).

During the French and Indian War, 11, 500 Acadians were forcibly relocated from the Canadian Maritime Provinces — first to the Thirteen Colonies and then to France.

After the dissolution of the first coalition through the peace of Travendal and with the victory at Narva ; the Swedish chancellor, Benedict Oxenstjerna, attempted to use the bidding for the favor of Sweden by France and the Maritime Powers ( then on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession ) to end the war and make Charles an arbiter of Europe.

** X-Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention

* Howard L. Vickery-Rear Admiral Howard Vickery, Vice Chairman U. S. Maritime Commission during World War II

During World War II, he attacked the National Maritime Union, the labor organization for the civilian United States Merchant Marine, which he said was run by Communists.

A joint committee of the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum and the Ministry of Defence was established, and reported in June 1968 that preservation was practical.

Nearby is the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, the largest maritime museum in California, as is the museum ship SS Lane Victory, a fully operational victory ship of World War II and National Historic Landmark.

To the annoyance of the Maritime Powers the Swedes now saw their rôle outside the great power-struggle of the Nine Years ' War, exploiting opportunities to increase their own maritime trade.

The approaches made to Spain came to naught ( the Nine Years ' War was not a religious war ), but the Maritime Powers were also keen for peace.

" In fact, during the Nine Years ' War field armies had waxed to nearly 100, 000 men in 1695, the strain of which had reduced the Maritime Powers to a fiscal crisis while the French struggled under the weight of a shattered economy.

* The Home Front: Manitowoc County in World War II: A digital collection of resources contributed by Manitowoc County Historical Society, the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, the Manitowoc Public Library, and the Lester Public Library in Two Rivers.

Britain encouraged a Maritime Union between these colonies, hoping that they would then become less economically and politically dependent on the Crown, as well as provide for greater economic and military power for the region in light of the ongoing American Civil War.

After World War Two the island became host to British Army units including 415 Maritime Unit RCT and the Ammunition Sub-Depot RAOC.

The base was turned over to the United States Air Force after World War II, becoming Shiroi Air Base, and was transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in 1959, becoming JMSDF Shimofusa Air Base.

The collection of the National Maritime Museum also includes items taken from Germany after World War II, including several ship models and paintings.

Prior to the end of World War II Japanese ship names were rendered in kanji ; after the end of the war this tradition was abandoned in favor of hiragana to separate the perception of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces from the old navy.

* X: Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention

" Maritime Operations In The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.

During World War II, under various titles ( including the Order of the Red Banner of Military Valour and Order of the Red Banner for Maritime Valour ), it was presented both to individuals and to units for acts of extreme military heroism.

Notable assignments included serving as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair during the 1930s, and as Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission during World War II.