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Saving the Steamship SS United States

She was called the unsinkable ship, built in 1912 to the latest technological developments of her time and the highest standards of luxury, so that only the super-rich of the time could afford for her...

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The National Review's El Faro Stupidity

“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience.” - Ernest Hemingway The recent National Review article by Eftychis John Gregos-Mourginakis and Joshua Jacobs, “B...

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240 Years of Navy Celebrated in Images

On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress approved legislation for two vessels to be equipped and armed with 10 carriage guns as well as crews of 80 sailors charged with intercepting transport shi...

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Burgess Marine Takes Over Marchwood Slipways

Britain’s largest independent ship repairer Burgess Marine has secured a long-term lease for slipways on the South Coast of England. The Marchwood Slipways site has been renamed Burgess Marine Marc...

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Herding Both Reindeer and Oil

Across the vast tundra of northern Eurasia, nomadic indigenous peoples have herded reindeer for thousands of years. From the Sami in Fennoscandia and northwest Russia to the Chukchi in northeast Russi...

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Study Finds 25 Percent of Fish Eat Rubbish

Roughly a quarter of the fish sampled from fish markets in California and Indonesia contained man-made debris, plastic or fibrous material, in their guts, according to a study from the University of C...

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Sailors' Society to Hold Fundraising Event in Greece

Sailors’ Society will hold its first ever fundraising event in Greece on Thursday 15 October in Athenaeum InterContinental Athens’ stunning ballroom. The night will see the industry coming together in...

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Ulusoy Selects Trojan MarinexTM for Retrofit Project

Trojan Marinex announced today that Turkey-based Ulusoy Denizyollari Isletmeciligi A.S. has selected the Trojan Marinex Ballast Water Treatment (BWT) system to retrofit 12 vessels, including bulk carr...

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Bankruptcy Plagues Offshore Drilling Market

The most significant bankruptcy of the current oil downturn has shone a spotlight on what is perhaps the most oversupplied corner of the energy world: the market for offshore rig services. Samson R...

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Kalmar to Deliver Four New-Generation Reachstackers

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has announced a contract to supply Immingham Container Terminal in the UK with four Kalmar Gloria reachstackers equipped with new Kalmar K-Motion technology. The units are pa...