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This 50 meter yacht promises to be vastly cleaner and more fuel-efficient than traditional marine powerplants, and Sabdes says the 50M will have a higher

The New York Times ran a great feature last week: “What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish” Steven Senne/Associated

The Guardian tells us: A Chinese cargo ship believed to be carrying 77 tonnes of small arms, including more than 3m rounds of ammunition, AK47 assault rifles,

BBC reports on a long standing maritime tradition: Last year the Duchess of Cornwall failed to smash a bottle on the side of cruise liner Queen Victoria; later

Painful Rectal Itch By The Artful Blogger OK, I’m back from my little “vacation.” Seven months may have been a bit excessive, but what the

Via, The London Daily Mail. The world’s biggest cruise liner is to have a New York-style “Central Park” on the ship, its owners have

Fellow maritime podcaster and friend Peter Mello points us to this interesting theory about the sinking of the world’s most famous ship. The NYTimes

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 106th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 56 here. (Published 23 April 2007) You can

Hit hard by the internet crash in 2000 cable laying ships (video) were hard pressed to find contracts laying subsea communication cable and took on less

David Mearns, shipwreck hunter at the Maritime Museum in Fremantle talking about the finding of HMAS Sydney. Picture: Colin Murty Today’s The Australian

(56 minutes) Download MP3 file: Messing About In Ships Episode 18 (April 10, 2008) Show Notes over at Messing About In Ships blog Subscribe Via iTunes

Only in the eclectic world of the maritime blogosphere could the best provider of interesting content find its roots in a parking problem. Such is the case

On Wednesday’s  blog it was reported the that the Queen of the West on the Columbia River suffered a severe engine room fire. Ironically while

We received email that our last quiz was just too easy so we challenge you to try this…. the above picture shows something carried aboard certain ships

This map shows the antipodes of each point on the Earth‘s surface – the points where the blue and pink overlap are land antipodes. Notice that most

The following is posted by Fred Fry: Welcome to this 105th edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 55 here. (Published 16 April 2007) You can

The following is posted by Fred Fry: I mentioned back in Maritime Monday 103 that National Geographic is set to start airing a short series called

Photo By OneEighteen Your car’s parked in the lot outside a roadside diner, well off the road, when a another vehicle pulling a trailer passes. As it

With the help of our friends at Vessel Trax and many hours at the computer we have taken the list of Transportation Worker’s Identification Card ( TWIC )

(Ed. note: Thanks to colleague and regular gCaptain commenter, Capt. Jack Richards pointing me to information on Argo.) Brief History of Argo The name Argo was