What are a bunch of tankers doing anchored off Perth’s iconic Scarborough Beach? They’ve been out there for months. With my natural curiosity piqued, I started doing ..
Author: Kent Stewart
Founder of Maritime Engineers, a multi-region maritime consultancy with clients in the oil and gas industry, navy, commercial shipping and marine insurance, Kent Stewart is our resident expert on commercial shipping and the offshore industries.
One winter night in 1889, the sleek new P&O mail steamer Britannia was making her way up the east coast of Australia, at a very respectable 15 knots, when the mate on ..
Larrikin: a mischievous young person an uncultivated, rowdy but good natured person- a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political convention. A ..
In 1976 I was invited to join the North Esk in Newcastle. The local office instructed me to go down to the Western basin wheat berth to sign on. But when I arrived, there ..
No history of Australian shipping would be complete without mention of one of its most notorious and colourful species, the ships painters and dockers. Formally known as ..
“Nobody fits an open loop scrubber on their ship to clean the environment”. These are the words of legendary US based Norwegian ship financier, Morten Arntzen. Morten ..
Do fourteen ships constitute an industry? That’s my current tally of the number of ships in the Australian shipping industry. You can even name them all – the four ..
One winter’s night in 1889 the sleek new P&O mail steamer, Britannia was making her way up the east coast of Australia at a very respectable 15 knots when the mate ..
For most of the last century Australia was involved in war. In the two world wars alone, Australia committed over forty merchant ships as troop carriers, hospital ships ..
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