Providing personnel and vessel management for your business
with USCG licensed captains, crew, and dock workers.
Providing personnel and vessel management for your business
with USCG licensed captains, crew, and dock workers.
This will be our fourth year providing captains, crew and vessel management to the Thames River Heritage Park water taxi, tours and charters. This year the Heritage Park will be adding a third vessel and a dock at the Submarine Force Nautilus Museum! They have incredible history tours, harbor tours and there is a chance that they may be facilitating a Ledge Light tour as well! The Heritage Park has an incredible amount of activities and events planned for 2022. Please go to their website for more information. https://www.thamesriverheritagepark.org/
VLM will be providing operators and laborers to Sterling Aquatic LLC for the 2022 season! For all of your aquatic weed removal and shoreline reclamation needs, please go to their website. https://sterlingaquatic.com/
VLM will be providing workers for the New London City Pier for the 2022 season! To see all of the concerts and events happening this season, just visit their website.
The Continental Navy of the fledgling United Colonies of America was at times, non-existent. Many Colonies which had Coastlines quickly converted their Merchant Ships into their own "Navies" - to harass British Supply and Warships. These "Privateers" were small and agile Ships, many with shallow enough draught to slip into Inlets and deep Rivers to escape capture or retribution.
A well known "Sponsor" of Colonial Privateering, was The Colony of Connecticut. At the time New London was a busy deep water whaling port and had a ready supply of knowledgeable seafarers and ships for the task.
The Standard they used was a Blue Field in entirety. A White Canton was placed in the Upper Left corner. The grape vine in the canton comes from the Connecticut coat of arms.. The Connecticut Privateer Flag was flown from 1776 to 1779.
VLM proudly flies the Connecticut Privateer Standard on all our vessels in honor of those brave privateers from Connecticut that were such a thorn in the side of the world's most powerful Navy.