These days big containerships can be found rushing through thick fog in the Dover Straits at 23 knots, visibility nil and thinking nothing of the terror...
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...
It is a faraway country, but what goes on in maritime Norway often reverberates around the world. Ships and shipping still matter in this country, with...
When you first joined a ship, one of the first questions you would ask was “who is the master?” It mattered because the attitude of the Old Man would...
Nowadays, we are so attuned to the notion of “fake news” that we don’t even trust the weather report and completely believe only the date you find on...
[caption id="attachment_67405" align="alignnone" width=""]London Royal Docks[/caption]Ships don’t seem to have “home ports” any more – they circle the...
More than half a century ago, with the ship alongside in Brooklyn, I witnessed a confrontation between a uniformed official, packing a side arm, and...
On our Commonwealth cargo liners, amid the run of the mill general cargo outbound and foodstuffs back, we would carry a fair amount of “specials” –...
We are terribly hung up on the need for “diversity” these days, with every government department in most developed countries ramming its importance...
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