Back in the days when lookouts were posted on ship’s fo’csl’ heads and as well as keeping a good lookout the man had to repeat the time on the ship’s bell in resp ..
So as I write this it is Independence Day, so we have just clicked over into the second half of the year. It’s perhaps somewhat perverse of me, then, to look back at la ..
Coming through a tricky section of waterway in the Moreton Bay Islands, the car ferry 'Seaway' came to a sudden silence as all engines died. This four-engined car ferry h ..
It was the alleged misdemeanours of an aircraft carrier’s captain that reminded me of my bicycle. It was in all the newspapers in this northern hemisphere – the capta ..
Ship design, we were brought up to believe is a matter of compromise – and lots of them! A shipowner, who, after all, is paying for the thing, requires a ship that can ..
Ships and Shipping editorial
Much of the developed world, even such recalcitrant nations as Australia, Japan and the Unite ..
Many readers will be aware of the famous instruction in a recipe for hare soup – “first catch your hare”. The instruction is attributed either to Mrs. Glasse’s < ..
By MICHAEL GREY MBE
There would have been a few ripples right across the maritime world at the news a few weeks ago that Princess Cruises had been f ..
Ships and Shipping editorial - April 2007
The maritime industry remains generally reluctant to learn from its counterpart ..
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