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March 3, 2021

BOOK REVIEW | Special Report – Submarines: Your Questions Answered

Written by Neil Baird on March 3, 2021. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Book Reviews, Submersibles (Naval), Work Boat World Features.

Discounting much of the self-serving twaddle from the retired admirals and military industrial complex executives who contributed to it, this report from the Australian ..

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February 5, 2021

BOOK REVIEW | Dunkirk and the Little Ships

Written by Neil Baird on February 5, 2021. Posted in Book Reviews, Naval, Work Boat World Features.

Another fine little book from the prolific Osprey Publishing, this time, however, under the trademark of Shire Publications. Whatever the reason for that, it is very much ..

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December 23, 2020

BOOK REVIEW | Mosul: Australia’s Secret War Inside the ISIS Caliphate

Written by Neil Baird on December 23, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Work Boat World Features.

When this book first arrived from the publisher, your reviewer was tempted to bin it. Its rather “sensationalist” cover reminded him of the avalanche of books about ..

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February 23, 2021

BOOK REVIEW | Lifting and Lifting Appliances aboard Ship

Written by Neil Baird on February 23, 2021. Posted in Book Reviews, Deck Equipment, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

Mike Wall, who produces a very interesting and practical column for Baird Maritime, is a widely experienced British born and trained marine engineer. For the latter half ..

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January 20, 2021

BOOK REVIEW | Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge

Written by Neil Baird on January 20, 2021. Posted in Book Reviews, Naval, Work Boat World Features.

This is an excellent book that is excitingly written and brilliantly explained by way of historical facts and technical, political and geographic details. One of the best ..

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December 17, 2020

BOOK REVIEW | A Guide to Bulk Carrier Operations

Written by Neil Baird on December 17, 2020. Posted in Book Reviews, Dry Cargo World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

This excellent and very valuable book produced by the ever-invaluable Nautical Institute is a development of Captain Jack Isbester’s Bulk Carrier Practice, on which it ..

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February 16, 2021

BOOK REVIEW | Peril at Sea and Salvage: A Guide for Masters — Sixth Edition

Written by Neil Baird on February 16, 2021. Posted in Book Reviews, Salvage Operations, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

This long overdue “bible” on the perils of the sea and salvage should not just be required reading and compulsory digestion for ship masters but for all ..

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January 6, 2021

BOOK REVIEW | I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Written by Neil Baird on January 6, 2021. Posted in Book Reviews, Naval, Work Boat World Features.

This excellent book is one of the new breed of World War II histories that incorporate substantial comment from some of the few remaining participants in that war. It ..

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December 3, 2020

BOOK REVIEW | War in the Far East: Japan Runs Wild 1942-1943

Written by Neil Baird on December 3, 2020. Posted in Book Reviews, Naval, Work Boat World Features.

The first volume of the trilogy of which this is the second was excellent. This volume is, if anything, even better. Brilliantly researched and enhanced by numerous ..

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Five missing after Chinese longliner capsizes off Okinawa
Longlining World

Five missing after Chinese longliner capsizes off Okinawa

By Baird Maritime
OPINION | Agalega: A glimpse of India’s remote island military base
Naval

OPINION | Agalega: A glimpse of India’s remote island military base

By Samuel Bashfield
FEATURE | Why the Philippines’ only luxury cruise ship is no longer sailing
Cruise

FEATURE | Why the Philippines’ only luxury cruise ship is no longer sailing

By Baird Maritime
Seaspan buys 2019-built boxship pair
Boxship World

Seaspan buys 2019-built boxship pair

By Baird Maritime
Shipping company, chief officer convicted for dumping garbage in Great Barrier Reef
Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore

Shipping company, chief officer convicted for dumping garbage in Great Barrier Reef

By Ausmarine
EU to join North Pacific Fisheries Commission
Regulation & Enforcement

EU to join North Pacific Fisheries Commission

By Baird Maritime

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