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Image via SF Chronicle A replica 16th century junk (Chinese sailing vessel) sank off Taiwan Sunday after a collision involving a Liberian freighter.  The junk

Image via flickr user Maasmondmaritime The Iranian-flagged freight ship Danoosh (shown above) was intentionally grounded along the Singapore straits Thursday

Here is a shot from LTJG Tasha Thomas (HEALY’s Public Affairs Officer) in one of her regular updates to family and friends about life aboard the

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On April 16, 1947, the Liberty ship, S.S. Grandcamp exploded dockside in the port at Texas City, Texas.  The blast and the fires that followed killed about

Here is a collection of photos taken from this past week’s Maersk Alabama piracy incident.  The images and descriptions are provided the U.S. Navy. 

YM TAICHUNG lost 14 containers of cargo, with 21 damaged containers remaining on board, when the vessel reported they encountered heavy weather on April 5th in

The maritime and ship-building industry has a constant need to move the world’s heaviest loads between ship and shore and even employees  the biggest

Some of you may have noticed the recent change we made to gCaptain’s homepage.  I will not get into the underlying reasons for the switch, but one thing

Nearly 300 cows were stuck on board the Mathew Flinders when it ran aground on Kings Island just off of Tasmania, Australia late Monday night.  Initial

Photo set by maritime photographer terrafesta of a large ship battling arctic ice. Slideshow and Flickr photo

Today, a towing vessel pushing eight barges allided with the Popps Ferry Bridge in Biloxi, Miss., causing a 150-foot section of the bridge to collapse  into

We thank gCaptain reader Steve Taylor for pointing us to this amazing collection of photos put from the battlefield of Aden. Click HERE to enjoy the

This week’s best photo is by Flickr photographer  WimKok.  Click HERE for full

Boston.com tells

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF8eDuX1C24 This footage, released by the Associated Press, shows a USCG helicopter flyby of the 58-foot fishing vessel, Icy

Smashing Magazine, the site for web designers, has an excelent collection of HDR photos. They explain; Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR)

See gCaptain’s full list of incident photos HERE Radio Canada tells

(Photo: Reuters) The Bahaman-flagged cruise ship, Ocean Nova, ran aground in Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay amid high winds and rough seas Tuesday morning

To help promote our friends at The Ugly Ship blog we are starting a contest for the ugliest ship. The top 5 contest winners, as voted on by our