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April 26 1956 the converted tanker Ideal X leaves Newark, New Jersey, carrying 58 cargo-laden truck-trailers on its specially fitted deck. Containerization is born. Globalization has set sail.
The first container ship was the brainchild of North Carolina businessman Malcolm...
1862: Civil War ironclads stage the first sea battle in naval history between armour-plated vesselsThe battle took place at Hampton Roads, Virginia, where a day earlier the CSS Virginia (known popularly as the Merrimack, her name when she had been a frigate in the pre war U.S.f...
A British submarine lost during World War II, the HMS Olympus (N35), was found in the Mediterranean Sea, according to Malta authorities. The Odin class submarine was sunk by a mine off Malta in May 1942.Built by William Beardmore and Company, a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding...
It’s been 70 years since Japan attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, the single catastrophic event that launched the United States into World War II. Today we remember December 7th, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy
Damaged ships after the Japanese attack...
ATHENA " was built as the Stockholm, for Swedish-America Line in 1948.
In 1956, on her way to New York, she collided and sank the Italia Line flagship, ANDREA DORIA. In 1960 she was renamed, VOLKERFREUNDSCHAFT. In 1985 was sold again and renamed, VOLKER. In 1986 became the...
USS Antietam (CV/CVA/CVS-36) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during and shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the American Civil War Battle of Antietam (Maryland). Antietam was...
This beautiful painting by Joe Wilhelm is the CONTE BIANCAMANO, which was an Italian liner launched in 1925. The name was chosen in honor of Humbert I Biancamano, founder of the State of Savoy. She was built in the Scottish shipyards of William Beardmore & Co. in Dalmuir,...
To take a ship into the drydock is regular work in a shipyard but when in 1996 the famous ferry MANXMAN was to be drydocked it appeared that the vessel was too long and needed more than a metre of public road inHull. The problem was solved by slightly shortening her bow section so...
A Dutch submarine sunk in 1941 during the Japanese military campaign in Asia has been found in the South China Sea near Borneo.
HNLMS K XVI sank with 36 crew members on board after being hit by a Japanese torpedo on 25 December 1941. The wreck was found following a tip-off from a...
Before the steam ferry was created, people would cross the harbour in sampans. In 1870, a man named Grant Smith brought a twin-screw wooden-hulled boat from England and started running it across the harbour at irregular intervals.
In July 1873, an attempt was made to run steam...
PELAGOS was built at Harland & Wolff in 1901as the ATHENIC for Shaw Savill & Albion's service from London to Wellington, NZ. Bought in 1928 by the Norwegian Hvalfangerslsk Pelagos A/S, who converted the vessel to a whale factory ship. She was captured by the raider PENGUIN in...
Above seen the Passenger Airship Graf Zeppelin flying over the port of Amsterdam in October 1929, a photo hanging on the wall of Rudy Puister in Spain. The Airship was a large German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. It...
HMS Warrior - A revolutionary warship - quickly overtaken by even newer developments The HMS Warrior was the world's first iron-hull, armor-plated warship. It was also one of the largest ships of its time when launched in 1860. Iron hull ships were relatively new when the Warrior...
The OP TEN NOORT an 6,000 ton Dutch passenger liner based in Java and on regular service between Surabaya and Singapore. Converted to a hospital ship for the Dutch Navy at the outbreak of the war. In harbour at Surabaya during the Battle of the Java Sea, she was dispatched to look...
As a mariner, a couple of years ago I privately published a book which has proved to be of considerable interest to the older generation of fellow seafarers. It has been very well reviewed by Lloyd's List, by 'Sea Breezes' magazine and other publications.Copies of the flyer and two...
The "Britanis" was built for Matson Line as the "Monterey" in 1932 and retained this name until 1957 when she was re-named "Matsonia". In 1963 she was again re-named by Matson Lines as the "Lurline" as a result of the previous "Lurline" being sold to Chandris in 1963, which she...
The sinking of the Lyttelton to Wellington ferry Wahine on 10 April 1968 was New Zealand's worst modern maritime disaster. Fifty-one people lost their lives hat day, another died several weeks later and a 53rd victim died in 1990 from njuries sustained in the wreck. The...
The liner was ordered in 1938 to replace the aging ships on the Dutch East Indies route, her keel was laid in 1939 at De Schelde shipyard in Vlissingen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd . Interrupted by World War II and two bombing raids, the ship was not launched until July...
This is a little known area of WW2
JAPAN’S SUBMERSIBLE I-400 AIRCRAFT CARRIERSIn many ways HIJMS I-400 was decades ahead of her time. She was the world’s largest submarine with a length of 400-ft and a surface displacement of 3,530 tons. Above her main deck rose a 115-ft. long,...
CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL CRUISES, PRINSES DAPHNE 15,833gt, (1955)Built 1955 as fast cargo liner Port Sydney for Port Lines' UK - Australia service. In 1972, she was sold along with her sister ship, Port Melbourne,to John Karras for conversion to car ferries. Renamed Akrotiri...
Under severe weather conditions in the open sea, good seamanship dictates either run for it and hope to escape the worst and most certainly for North Pacific Typhoons that is by far and away the primary consideration. But in the worst case scenario, then its back to that hoary old...
The Red Ensign The Australian Red Ensign Flag Adopted:15 April 1954 Flag Proportion: 1:2 Use: Civil Ensign The Australian Civil Ensign, or Australian Red Ensign, is simply a red version of the Australian National flag. It is for use only at sea and officially never on land, but...
MASTER - from the 'Latin Magister', 'Maitre' - Person in Control, Having complete knowledge. MARINER - From the Latin "Marinus", 'Mare" - of the Sea MASTER MARINER - Captain of a Merchant Ship ( Oxford English Dictionary. The true origin of the title is lost in the...
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