Castine, ME, Tuesday, August 20, 2024 – Wayne Norton, Chairman of the Maine Maritime Academy Board of Trustees and the Presidential Search Committee are excited to announce that they have selected RPA Inc., a nationally recognized executive search firm which marks the formal launch of their Presidential search.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine, Wednesday, August 7 — Today, Maine Maritime Academy and ORBIS, Inc., a Portsmouth, NH-based defense contractor, hosted an event on campus highlighting the progress of the inaugural Naval Shipyard Institute workforce development program, offering a tour of the training cohorts, and providing the opportunity to interact with MMA leadership and faculty. Representatives from the offices of Governor Mills, Senator Collins, Senator King, as well as officials from the U.S. Navy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, MMA’s Board of Trustees and the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Labor were in attendance to discuss workforce development efforts. The Naval Shipyard Institute training project, funded by the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Industrial Base (SIB), is an intensive skills training program training over fifty in welding, machining, and marine electrical over the course of 14 weeks. Following the successful completion of the program, students will be eligible for employment at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard maintaining, repairing, and sustaining submarines.

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CASTINE, Maine, Friday, July 26 — Today, the historic schooner Bowdoin, the flagship of Maine Maritime Academy’s sailing fleet, arrived at her home port in Castine, Maine after a successful, eight-week Arctic voyage of more than 4,500 miles, having accomplished the goal of crossing north of the 70th Parallel. The schooner Bowdoin, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989, was purpose-built for Arctic exploration and launched from Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard in East Boothbay in 1921. This was the Bowdoin’s 30th Arctic voyage and the first in 16 years.

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