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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy So what does a semi-retired mega-billionaire philanthropist do with his spare time?

The Queen Elizabeth II is headed for Cape Town, South Africa. This just in from BBC News: Cunard sold the Southampton-based liner for £50m to the United Arab

Saturday, a Lockheed Martin led team held a keel-laying ceremony at Marinette Marine’s shipyard for the USS Fort Worth, marking the start of construction

Fred Fry is on vacation this week. Welcome to this 170th (abbreviated) edition of Maritime Monday. You can find links to all the previous editions at the

Photo by nasebaer Chief Journalist David Nagle of US Naval Sea Systems Command brings us Milestones in Ship Construction: “So the ship’s been

A feature we recently implemented is gCaptain site search built on the google search engine. We had this before but only on the homepage, lat week we added new

A few months ago we received a press release from McMurdo on a revolutionary product, the Fast-Find 210 PLB, a portable version of an EPIRB, The revolutionary

. Frequently passing under bridges for a living and over them in the family sedan we, like most mariners, have a fascination with bridge design and basically

Get your TIVO’s ready…. In a new, featured, television show The Discovery Channel looks to find out the very real story behind the story of the

The National Maritime Security Advisory Committee (The primary industry advisory committee that provides security policy guidance to the US Coast Guard) has

This story comes via our friends at the excellent blog Maritime Accident Casebook (MAC for short). Bob Couttie

We first met Hydraulic Marine Systems during our coverage of the International Workboat Show in December and, like the rest of the trade show participants,

The Local

Should LRIT replace Amver? This question was raised by Ryan Erickson on the Unofficial Coast Guard Blog. Ryan did a nice job of highlighting many of the

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Image via Wikipedia This photo from the maritime incident archives is of the New Carissa… the freighter that ran aground on a beach near Coos Bay,

We have covered many maritime LEGO creations in the past, including a rather impressive Aircraft Carrier, and have even been told of a mystical all LEGO port

This week’s incident photo of the week is of the Italian ferry M/V Vincenzo Florio, enroute from Naples to Palermo. The BBC tells

These photos show the laying of the bow section of a new drillship being built in South Korea. Click on the photos for more details or HERE for more

ShipSpotting has the end of the car carrier DYVI PACIFIC in a giant dockside capsize before sea trials were even completed in “One way to get rid of