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A row has broken out in Norway over a decision to move three ancient Viking ships, which may not survive the journey. The University of Oslo has decided to move three longships, probably by lorry and barge, to a new museum, despite dire warnings that the thousand-year-old oak vessels could fall apa...

Fire fighters have put out a blaze on board the famous 19th Century clipper Cutty Sark in Greenwich. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6670000/newsid_6675400/6675455.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm]BBC Video weblink:[/ur...

Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat -- where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood -- in an appeal for action on...

A group from Switzerland will attempt to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered boat. The ship, named SUN21, a 6 berth, 14-meter-long catamaran, will leave Seville, Spain, in December 2006 destined to ports in Florida and New York in the spring of 2007. This boat will use photovoltaic cells to ac...

A boat that plied the coast of the Holy Land 1,300 years ago carrying fish, carobs and olives is helping researchers better understand a little-known period in the region's history. The boat, discovered in a coastal lagoon near the northern city of Haifa, dates from the early 8th century, not lo...

The world's largest Viking ship will sail from Denmark to Norway next week, but it's too big to navigate its way into the Oslo Fjord. The upcoming voyage of the Havhingsten will thus end at Tønsberg, about a 90-minute drive south of the capital but a city rich in its own Viking history. The Danish ve...

Archaeologists excavating the seabed off Cyprus have discovered the tools of ancient mariners, which they believe were used by foragers more than 10,000 years ago - before the island had permanent settlements. The underwater discovery of what archaeologists said were the oldest materials reco...

On 29 March 2007 The Zong, a replica 18th century wooden square rigger will be accompanied up the Thames by Royal Navy Frigate HMS Northumberland on its pre-scheduled trip from Greenwich, through Tower Bridge to dock at Tower Pier. On board ship will be a group of African, Afro Caribbean and Englis...

The transport ship Akademik Fyodorov, flagship of the research fleet of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is currently cruising the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean has independently crossed the 87th latitude, thus becoming the world’s first ship to approach the North Pol...

It was a small gesture towards righting a 90-year-old wrong: to the sound of a South African naval band, a wreath was yesterday cast into the waters off the Isle of Wight on the south coast of England, which swallowed more than 600 young African lives in the small hours of February 21, 1917. The SS Mendi,...

Archaeologists in Perthshire will attempt to raise a Bronze Age boat from below the River Tay next month after undertaking excavation work yesterday. The 3,000-year-old log boat was found by a man with a metal detector on the mudflats near Abernethy, six years ago. The find was reported to Pe...

More than 800 men died. Britain suffered the worst loss of life in a naval disaster on home shores. But even to this day little notice has been paid in historical circles to the sinking of HMS Vanguard in 1917. The Vanguard the eighth Royal Navy vessel by that name was an aging ship in need of repair or repl...

Riddle of the last crewman may be solved after 65 years The body was in a navy liferaft, arms outstretched over the sides, when it washed ashore on Christmas Island, a speck in the Indian Ocean 1,600 miles (2,575km) from Australia. It appeared that the corpse had been drifting in the seas for weeks. The...

Images of the British Battleship, HMS Royal Oak, which sank in World War II has been revealed for the first time. Expand (39kb, 640 x 443) Expand (53kb, 640 x 445) Expand (71kb, 640 x 447) Expand (59kb, 640 x 443) HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, torpedoed in Sc...

Project to sink military ship begins After 10 years of fund-raising and getting permits, a project has begun to sink a retired military ship off Key West to serve as an artificial reef. Last Friday, the decommissioned U.S. Air Force missile-tracking ship Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a 523-foot ship tha...

The Queen Mary 2 has arrived in Sydney ahead of a reunion of the Cunard's royal liners. Aboard Chris Butler, an astronomer from Buena Park, has since Feb. 5, been cruising the Pacific, and giving the planetarium show aboard the Queen Mary 2 as the liner crossed from San Francisco to Australia. Ma...

A replica of the Swedish merchant ship "Gotheborg" will sail up the Pearl River in south China. It departed from the Swedish city of Gothenburg in October last year for China. Next Tuesday, it will reach Guangzhou and will stay in the province for one month. A wooden sailing boat modelled on a...

A replica of the oldest known shipwreck, Uluburun II, built by the 360 Degree Historical Research Association in Urla, Izmir, arrived in Bodrum for display as part of activities marking the 80th anniversary of Cabotage Day. Previously the ship had anchored in Istanbul, Marmaris, Cyprus and Kas re...

The oldest known remains of seafaring ships have been identified in a series of cave stores on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Built of cedar and acacia wood, the ships had been attacked by marine worms, and the site seems to have been a shipbreaker’s yard dating to the middle of the second millennium BC. ...

The research vessel Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev set out on a long expedition on Saturday. The two-stage expedition would last almost five months. During the first stage, scientists will explore...

Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a sal****er bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast. Part of a sunken shipment of up to 60 ceramic vessels, the 67-centimeter storage jar, or amphora, was the top find from what organisers say...

A shipwreck from imperial Roman, found off Cape Greco towards the Protaras area, Cyprus, could lead to the discovery of vessels sunk in antiquity's largest naval engagement, the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC. During late July and early August, a small international team of archaeologists and studen...

A new nuclear icebreaker will be built in Russia by 2015, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Monday after signing an agreement with the leadership of the northern Murmansk Region. Responsibility for Russia's nuclear icebreaker fleet will be handed over to Rosatom from the Mu...

The technical design of the European Research Icebreaker - Aurora Borealis (Berlin) The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association and the engineering company Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany (formerly Schiffko, GmbH) today presented the technical desig...

A muddy river bank in the flat, watery landscape of southern Essex may seem an unlikely place to find one of the most important ships in scientific history. But a combination of painstaking detective work and archaeology have convinced maritime historian Dr Robert Prescott that the banks of the Riv...

A last ditch bid to save an historic clipper from being broken up will be made later. The Carrick, which pre-dates the Cutty Sark, was built at Sunderland in 1864 and is now berthed at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, Ayrshire. North Ayrshire Council granted provisional permission for the shi...

A Russian marine biologist was drowned, and an Italian badly hurt, when the research vessel on which they were working was rammed by a cargo ship and sank off the coast of Sicily on 3 August. The ship, Thetis, was measuring marine biomass around seven kilometres off the island's coast when it was struc...

Yuangwang 5, a 25,000 tons displacement, new-generation tracking ship, was delivered on September 29 to China Satellite Maritime Telemetry and Telecontrol Department by the Jiangnan Shipyard. The ship is equipped to provide information for shipping, tracking and control, communicati...

Ferdinand R. Hassler, named after one of history's greatest surveyors and first superintendent of Coast Survey, is a small waterplane area, twin-hull coastal mapping vessel - the first of its kind to be constructed for NOAA. Hassler's twin-hull design is more stable than a mono-hull and particul...

An Australian World War II hospital ship, the Centaur, has been seen for the first time since it sank more than 60 years ago with a loss of 268 lives. Images of the wreck, more than 2km below the sea, were captured by a remote-controlled underwater camera. The ship's location was discovered last month f...

Korea's first Icebreaker in NZ, then to Antarctica The Araon, a state of the art icebreaker and the first ever domestically produced in Korea, will provide additional support for Korea's expanding polar research activities which are led by the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). [url=http:...

A piece of 9th Century AD history is being re-created, when the 'Jewel of Muscat', a replica of ancient Omani trading vessel set sail on Tuesday amidst much fanfare from Port Sultan Qaboos. The Jewel of Muscat is a copy of an ancient Omani trading vessel discovered wrecked off the coast of Indonesia in...

The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. At the time of her construction, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. Shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912, fo...

The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland. It was used by Scottish fishermen from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. These boats were mainly used to fish for herring using drift nets, and along with other designs of boat were known as herring drifters. [url=h...

RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy Minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanography researcher Jacques-Yves Cousteau, equipped with a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. She was severely damaged in 1996, and is undergoing a complete refurbishment in 2009...

Barry Clifford has been searching the high seas from Africa to Cape Cod, and he's hit real treasure. The Massachusetts-based historian and underwater explorer discovered the wreckage of the Whydah, a pirate ship that sunk off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717, making him the discoverer of the only confi...

Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Oc...

Thor Heyerdahl sets sail on the papyrus boat Ra II on the 17th May, 1970 Read more Ra II 1970 - 2010. Thor Heyerdahl the environmentalist Spoiler Egyption era RA II reed boat reconstruction of the 1970 Thor Heyerdahl expediti...

On the afternoon of 17 June 1940 the RMS Lancastria off the coast of France, came under attack from the Luftwaffe. After receiving three direct hits from a Junkers 88 bomber the liner sank in just 20 minutes, with the loss of an estimated 4,000 plus lives. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/w...

RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of RMS Titanic after the latter ship hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. Carpathia herself wa...

Victoria (or Nao Victoria, as well as Vittoria) was a Spanish carrack and the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Read more Nao Victoria REPLICA NAO VICTORIA JUAN MATASSI [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-Q...

Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as the 'QE2', is an ocean liner that was operated by Cunard from 1969 to 2008. The ship was launched on the 20th September, 1967. Read more

The SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship that saw service during the Second World War. She sailed with several convoys, before joining Convoy SL 64. Running low on fuel, she left the convoy and headed for Galway, Ireland, but was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. [url=http://en.wikip...

RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. The ship was launched on the 27th September, 1938. Read more

Ancient Warship Discovered A successful expedition, led by Deep Sea Productions founder Carl Douglas, has resulted in the discovery of an ancient warship off the island of Oland in Southern Sweden. It is believed to be Svärdet, a ship that went under in 1676. It is one of two giant ships that were lost...

The Essex was an American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. The ship, captained by George Pollard, Jr., was widely known for being attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820 - an incident that served as inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. R...

New Ice Patrol ship HMS Protector heads for the frozen south HMS Protector The Royal Navy's new ice patrol ship, HMS Protector, left Portsmouth earlier this week (Monday 28 November) for an eight-month deployment surveying and patrolling the seas around Antarctica. [url=http://www.antarctic...

HMS Challenger was a steam-assisted Royal Navy Pearl-class corvette launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She was the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. She was picked to undertake the first global marine research expedition: the Challenger expedition. To...

HMS Victory 'set to be recovered' from seabed The remains of a 300-year-old warship are to be raised from the sea bed, according to reports. The wreck of HMS Victory, a predecessor of Nelson's famous flagship, was found near the Channel Islands in 2008. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-166714...

Russian Icebreaker Heads to Argentine Antarctic Russian icebreaker, the Vasiliy Golovnin, left the port of Buenos Aires on Monday morning and headed on a mission to take about 60 Argentine scientists to research stations in Antarctica. [url=http://en.rian.ru/world...

Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Controlling Department in east Jiangsu province. [ur...

Move under way to save distinguished ice breaker The ice breaker that helped found McMurdo Station on Antarctica and performed a record-breaking 39 Arctic and Antarctic deployments may become scrap despite more than a decade of repairs and studies aimed at making the ship a museum or medical and s...

RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner that sank in the Saint Lawrence River following a collision with a Norwegian collier in the early hours of 29 May 1914. The accident, which claimed the lives of 1,012 people (840 passengers, 172 crew), remains the worst disaster in Canadian maritime history....

On 11 June 1770, the HM Bark Endeavour, captained by explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. Lightening the ship and re-floating it during an incoming tide eventually saved it Read more[video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clbc5yU7Fc...

German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Nazi German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She sank five ships but is perhaps best remembered for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized cryptographic material from...

During one of the routine crossings from Rosyth - Scapa Flow, HMS Astronomer was spotted and attacked by the German submarine U-58 . It happened June 1, 1940, in the area about 30 miles south-east of the Scottish town of Wick. Torpedo, fired just before midnight, about 23.48, hit the stern of HMS Astro...

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Boat Ancient Viking ships (Preview)	Off Topic	8	4247	May 7 20:47 2011 by Blobrana
A row has broken out in Norway over a decision to move three ancient Viking ships, which may not survive the journey. The University of Oslo has decided to move three longships, probably by lorry and barge, to a new museum, despite dire warnings that the thousand-year-old oak vessels could fall apa...
Boat Cutty Sark (Preview)	Off Topic	5	2057	Nov 21 23:43 2012 by Blobrana
Fire fighters have put out a blaze on board the famous 19th Century clipper Cutty Sark in Greenwich. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6670000/newsid_6675400/6675455.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm]BBC Video weblink:[/ur...
Boat Flood Noah's Ark (Preview)	Off Topic	2	2015	Jan 3 02:09 2010 by Blobrana
Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat -- where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood -- in an appeal for action on...
Boat Power Solar-powered boat (Preview)	Off Topic	7	3089	Dec 19 20:14 2012 by Blobrana
A group from Switzerland will attempt to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered boat. The ship, named SUN21, a 6 berth, 14-meter-long catamaran, will leave Seville, Spain, in December 2006 destined to ports in Florida and New York in the spring of 2007. This boat will use photovoltaic cells to ac...
Boat Ancient Arabic boat (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1880	Sep 25 22:12 2007 by Blobrana
A boat that plied the coast of the Holy Land 1,300 years ago carrying fish, carobs and olives is helping researchers better understand a little-known period in the region's history. The boat, discovered in a coastal lagoon near the northern city of Haifa, dates from the early 8th century, not lo...
Boat Havhingsten (Preview)	Off Topic	5	2257	Jul 27 16:00 2008 by Blobrana
The world's largest Viking ship will sail from Denmark to Norway next week, but it's too big to navigate its way into the Oslo Fjord. The upcoming voyage of the Havhingsten will thus end at Tønsberg, about a 90-minute drive south of the capital but a city rich in its own Viking history. The Danish ve...
Boat Ancient mariners ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	11	3924	Sep 19 07:33 2016 by Blobrana
Archaeologists excavating the seabed off Cyprus have discovered the tools of ancient mariners, which they believe were used by foragers more than 10,000 years ago - before the island had permanent settlements. The underwater discovery of what archaeologists said were the oldest materials reco...
Boat Slaveship Zong (Preview)	Trash	0	1552	Mar 29 18:57 2007 by Blobrana
On 29 March 2007 The Zong, a replica 18th century wooden square rigger will be accompanied up the Thames by Royal Navy Frigate HMS Northumberland on its pre-scheduled trip from Greenwich, through Tower Bridge to dock at Tower Pier. On board ship will be a group of African, Afro Caribbean and Englis...
Boat Akademik Fyodorov (Preview)	General news	8	4845	Feb 7 22:52 2010 by Blobrana
The transport ship Akademik Fyodorov, flagship of the research fleet of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is currently cruising the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean has independently crossed the 87th latitude, thus becoming the world’s first ship to approach the North Pol...
Boat SS Mendi (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1389	Feb 21 13:06 2017 by Blobrana
It was a small gesture towards righting a 90-year-old wrong: to the sound of a South African naval band, a wreath was yesterday cast into the waters off the Isle of Wight on the south coast of England, which swallowed more than 600 young African lives in the small hours of February 21, 1917. The SS Mendi,...
Archaeology Boat Neolithic Bronze Age boat ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	29	13523	Feb 28 21:42 2013 by Blobrana
Archaeologists in Perthshire will attempt to raise a Bronze Age boat from below the River Tay next month after undertaking excavation work yesterday. The 3,000-year-old log boat was found by a man with a metal detector on the mudflats near Abernethy, six years ago. The find was reported to Pe...
Boat HMS Vanguard (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1331	Jul 10 18:03 2007 by Blobrana
More than 800 men died. Britain suffered the worst loss of life in a naval disaster on home shores. But even to this day little notice has been paid in historical circles to the sinking of HMS Vanguard in 1917. The Vanguard the eighth Royal Navy vessel by that name was an aging ship in need of repair or repl...
Boat HMAS Sydney (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1289	Mar 18 00:09 2008 by Blobrana
Riddle of the last crewman may be solved after 65 years The body was in a navy liferaft, arms outstretched over the sides, when it washed ashore on Christmas Island, a speck in the Indian Ocean 1,600 miles (2,575km) from Australia. It appeared that the corpse had been drifting in the seas for weeks. The...
Boat HMS Royal Oak (Preview)	Off Topic	3	1761	Oct 13 20:05 2014 by Blobrana
Images of the British Battleship, HMS Royal Oak, which sank in World War II has been revealed for the first time. Expand (39kb, 640 x 443) Expand (53kb, 640 x 445) Expand (71kb, 640 x 447) Expand (59kb, 640 x 443) HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, torpedoed in Sc...
Boat Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1301	Apr 8 20:30 2007 by Blobrana
Project to sink military ship begins After 10 years of fund-raising and getting permits, a project has begun to sink a retired military ship off Key West to serve as an artificial reef. Last Friday, the decommissioned U.S. Air Force missile-tracking ship Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a 523-foot ship tha...
Boat The Queen Mary 2 (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1261	Feb 20 03:21 2007 by Blobrana
The Queen Mary 2 has arrived in Sydney ahead of a reunion of the Cunard's royal liners. Aboard Chris Butler, an astronomer from Buena Park, has since Feb. 5, been cruising the Pacific, and giving the planetarium show aboard the Queen Mary 2 as the liner crossed from San Francisco to Australia. Ma...
Boat Merchant ship Gotheborg (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1797	Jul 20 16:43 2006 by Blobrana
A replica of the Swedish merchant ship "Gotheborg" will sail up the Pearl River in south China. It departed from the Swedish city of Gothenburg in October last year for China. Next Tuesday, it will reach Guangzhou and will stay in the province for one month. A wooden sailing boat modelled on a...
Archaeology Boat Oldest Shipwreck (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1880	Nov 12 21:24 2008 by Blobrana
A replica of the oldest known shipwreck, Uluburun II, built by the 360 Degree Historical Research Association in Urla, Izmir, arrived in Bodrum for display as part of activities marking the 80th anniversary of Cabotage Day. Previously the ship had anchored in Istanbul, Marmaris, Cyprus and Kas re...
Boat Pharaonic Ship (Preview)	Off Topic	1	2839	May 9 19:20 2010 by Blobrana
The oldest known remains of seafaring ships have been identified in a series of cave stores on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Built of cedar and acacia wood, the ships had been attacked by marine worms, and the site seems to have been a shipbreaker’s yard dating to the middle of the second millennium BC. ...
Boat RV Akademik Lavrentyev (Preview)	General news	0	1348	Jun 18 14:01 2005 by Blobrana
The research vessel Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev set out on a long expedition on Saturday. The two-stage expedition would last almost five months. During the first stage, scientists will explore...
Boat Shipwreck ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	28	7908	Aug 25 18:09 2014 by Blobrana
Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a sal****er bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast. Part of a sunken shipment of up to 60 ceramic vessels, the 67-centimeter storage jar, or amphora, was the top find from what organisers say...
Boat Battle of Salamis (Preview)	Trash	3	1938	Sep 19 22:39 2012 by Blobrana
A shipwreck from imperial Roman, found off Cape Greco towards the Protaras area, Cyprus, could lead to the discovery of vessels sunk in antiquity's largest naval engagement, the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC. During late July and early August, a small international team of archaeologists and studen...
Boat Nuclear icebreaker (Preview)	General news	0	1146	Jun 9 23:00 2008 by Blobrana
A new nuclear icebreaker will be built in Russia by 2015, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Monday after signing an agreement with the leadership of the northern Murmansk Region. Responsibility for Russia's nuclear icebreaker fleet will be handed over to Rosatom from the Mu...
Boat Icebreaker (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1083	Dec 4 19:20 2008 by Blobrana
The technical design of the European Research Icebreaker - Aurora Borealis (Berlin) The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association and the engineering company Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany (formerly Schiffko, GmbH) today presented the technical desig...
Boat HMS Beagle (Preview)	Off Topic	6	2559	Dec 26 23:36 2012 by Blobrana
A muddy river bank in the flat, watery landscape of southern Essex may seem an unlikely place to find one of the most important ships in scientific history. But a combination of painstaking detective work and archaeology have convinced maritime historian Dr Robert Prescott that the banks of the Riv...
Boat The Carrick (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1447	Feb 24 11:13 2012 by Blobrana
A last ditch bid to save an historic clipper from being broken up will be made later. The Carrick, which pre-dates the Cutty Sark, was built at Sunderland in 1864 and is now berthed at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, Ayrshire. North Ayrshire Council granted provisional permission for the shi...
Boat Research vessel Thetis (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1344	Aug 7 19:38 2007 by Blobrana
A Russian marine biologist was drowned, and an Italian badly hurt, when the research vessel on which they were working was rammed by a cargo ship and sank off the coast of Sicily on 3 August. The ship, Thetis, was measuring marine biomass around seven kilometres off the island's coast when it was struc...
Boat Yuangwang 5 (Preview)	General news	0	1410	Sep 30 10:03 2007 by Blobrana
Yuangwang 5, a 25,000 tons displacement, new-generation tracking ship, was delivered on September 29 to China Satellite Maritime Telemetry and Telecontrol Department by the Jiangnan Shipyard. The ship is equipped to provide information for shipping, tracking and control, communicati...
Boat Ferdinand R. Hassler (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1202	Dec 22 07:11 2009 by Blobrana
Ferdinand R. Hassler, named after one of history's greatest surveyors and first superintendent of Coast Survey, is a small waterplane area, twin-hull coastal mapping vessel - the first of its kind to be constructed for NOAA. Hassler's twin-hull design is more stable than a mono-hull and particul...
Boat Australian Hospital Ship Centaur (Preview)	Trash	0	1171	Jan 10 14:26 2010 by Blobrana
An Australian World War II hospital ship, the Centaur, has been seen for the first time since it sank more than 60 years ago with a loss of 268 lives. Images of the wreck, more than 2km below the sea, were captured by a remote-controlled underwater camera. The ship's location was discovered last month f...
Boat Araon Icebreaker (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1382	Jan 10 22:45 2010 by Blobrana
Korea's first Icebreaker in NZ, then to Antarctica The Araon, a state of the art icebreaker and the first ever domestically produced in Korea, will provide additional support for Korea's expanding polar research activities which are led by the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). [url=http:...
Boat Jewel of Muscat (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1309	Apr 1 07:21 2010 by Blobrana
A piece of 9th Century AD history is being re-created, when the 'Jewel of Muscat', a replica of ancient Omani trading vessel set sail on Tuesday amidst much fanfare from Port Sultan Qaboos. The Jewel of Muscat is a copy of an ancient Omani trading vessel discovered wrecked off the coast of Indonesia in...
Boat RMS Titanic (Preview)	Trash	9	2407	Jun 18 11:43 2015 by Blobrana
The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by British shipping company White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. At the time of her construction, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. Shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912, fo...
Boat Fifie (Preview)	Trash	0	1143	May 12 19:52 2010 by Blobrana
The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland. It was used by Scottish fishermen from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. These boats were mainly used to fish for herring using drift nets, and along with other designs of boat were known as herring drifters. [url=h...
Boat RV Calypso (Preview)	Trash	2	1507	Jan 7 23:16 2016 by Blobrana
RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy Minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanography researcher Jacques-Yves Cousteau, equipped with a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. She was severely damaged in 1996, and is undergoing a complete refurbishment in 2009...
Boat Whydah Gally (Preview)	Trash	0	1099	Feb 22 01:43 2011 by Blobrana
Barry Clifford has been searching the high seas from Africa to Cape Cod, and he's hit real treasure. The Massachusetts-based historian and underwater explorer discovered the wreckage of the Whydah, a pirate ship that sunk off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717, making him the discoverer of the only confi...
Boat Kon-Tiki (Preview)	Off Topic	3	1547	Aug 6 22:47 2012 by Blobrana
Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Oc...
Boat Ra II (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1026	May 16 23:04 2012 by Blobrana
Thor Heyerdahl sets sail on the papyrus boat Ra II on the 17th May, 1970 Read more Ra II 1970 - 2010. Thor Heyerdahl the environmentalist Spoiler Egyption era RA II reed boat reconstruction of the 1970 Thor Heyerdahl expediti...
Boat RMS Lancastria (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1325	Jun 16 23:14 2012 by Blobrana
On the afternoon of 17 June 1940 the RMS Lancastria off the coast of France, came under attack from the Luftwaffe. After receiving three direct hits from a Junkers 88 bomber the liner sank in just 20 minutes, with the loss of an estimated 4,000 plus lives. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/w...
Boat RMS Carpathia (Preview)	Trash	1	889	Jul 16 22:37 2012 by Blobrana
RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of RMS Titanic after the latter ship hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. Carpathia herself wa...
Boat Nao Victoria (Preview)	Off Topic	0	855	Sep 5 23:26 2011 by Blobrana
Victoria (or Nao Victoria, as well as Vittoria) was a Spanish carrack and the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Read more Nao Victoria REPLICA NAO VICTORIA JUAN MATASSI [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-Q...
Boat Queen Elizabeth 2 (Preview)	Trash	2	1365	Sep 19 22:41 2012 by Blobrana
Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as the 'QE2', is an ocean liner that was operated by Cunard from 1969 to 2008. The ship was launched on the 20th September, 1967. Read more
Boat SS Gairsoppa (Preview)	Off Topic	2	975	Jul 19 07:12 2012 by Blobrana
The SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship that saw service during the Second World War. She sailed with several convoys, before joining Convoy SL 64. Running low on fuel, she left the convoy and headed for Galway, Ireland, but was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. [url=http://en.wikip...
Boat RMS Queen Elizabeth (Preview)	Trash	1	925	Sep 26 22:28 2012 by Blobrana
RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. The ship was launched on the 27th September, 1938. Read more
Boat Svärdet (Preview)	Trash	0	852	Nov 16 23:23 2011 by Blobrana
Ancient Warship Discovered A successful expedition, led by Deep Sea Productions founder Carl Douglas, has resulted in the discovery of an ancient warship off the island of Oland in Southern Sweden. It is believed to be Svärdet, a ship that went under in 1676. It is one of two giant ships that were lost...
Boat Whaleship Essex (Preview)	Trash	1	968	Nov 19 23:57 2012 by Blobrana
The Essex was an American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. The ship, captained by George Pollard, Jr., was widely known for being attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820 - an incident that served as inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. R...
Boat HMS Protector (Preview)	Trash	0	790	Nov 30 13:59 2011 by Blobrana
New Ice Patrol ship HMS Protector heads for the frozen south HMS Protector The Royal Navy's new ice patrol ship, HMS Protector, left Portsmouth earlier this week (Monday 28 November) for an eight-month deployment surveying and patrolling the seas around Antarctica. [url=http://www.antarctic...
Boat HMS Challenger (Preview)	Off Topic	2	1543	Dec 21 00:12 2012 by Blobrana
HMS Challenger was a steam-assisted Royal Navy Pearl-class corvette launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She was the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. She was picked to undertake the first global marine research expedition: the Challenger expedition. To...
Boat HMS Victory (1737) (Preview)	Trash	0	1133	Jan 22 15:11 2012 by Blobrana
HMS Victory 'set to be recovered' from seabed The remains of a 300-year-old warship are to be raised from the sea bed, according to reports. The wreck of HMS Victory, a predecessor of Nelson's famous flagship, was found near the Channel Islands in 2008. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-166714...
Boat Icebreaker Vasiliy Golovnin (Preview)	Off Topic	0	838	Feb 6 09:28 2012 by Blobrana
Russian Icebreaker Heads to Argentine Antarctic Russian icebreaker, the Vasiliy Golovnin, left the port of Buenos Aires on Monday morning and headed on a mission to take about 60 Argentine scientists to research stations in Antarctica. [url=http://en.rian.ru/world...
Boat Yuanwang VI (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1075	Feb 17 08:25 2012 by Blobrana
Space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concludes trip China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang VI concluded its 154-day trip on Thursday after covering more than 30,000 sea miles. The ship returned to the port of China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Controlling Department in east Jiangsu province. [ur...
Boat USS Glacier (Preview)	Off Topic	0	795	Apr 18 05:47 2012 by Blobrana
Move under way to save distinguished ice breaker The ice breaker that helped found McMurdo Station on Antarctica and performed a record-breaking 39 Arctic and Antarctic deployments may become scrap despite more than a decade of repairs and studies aimed at making the ship a museum or medical and s...
Boat RMS Empress of Ireland (Preview)	Off Topic	1	859	May 28 15:45 2013 by Blobrana
RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner that sank in the Saint Lawrence River following a collision with a Norwegian collier in the early hours of 29 May 1914. The accident, which claimed the lives of 1,012 people (840 passengers, 172 crew), remains the worst disaster in Canadian maritime history....
Boat HM Bark Endeavour (Preview)	Off Topic	0	801	Jun 10 23:20 2012 by Blobrana
On 11 June 1770, the HM Bark Endeavour, captained by explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. Lightening the ship and re-floating it during an incoming tide eventually saved it Read more[video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clbc5yU7Fc...
Boat German submarine U-559 (Preview)	Off Topic	0	671	Oct 29 22:38 2012 by Blobrana
German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Nazi German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She sank five ships but is perhaps best remembered for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized cryptographic material from...
Boat HMS Astronomer (Preview)	Trash	0	962	Jun 14 17:55 2013 by Blobrana
During one of the routine crossings from Rosyth - Scapa Flow, HMS Astronomer was spotted and attacked by the German submarine U-58 . It happened June 1, 1940, in the area about 30 miles south-east of the Scottish town of Wick. Torpedo, fired just before midnight, about 23.48, hit the stern of HMS Astro...