Following an excellent performance in 2020 when the global ferry fatality toll was the lowest since the Baird Maritime Passenger Vessel Accident database commenced in 196 ..
Co-founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Baird Maritime and Work Boat World magazine, Neil has travelled the length and breadth of this planet in over 40 years in the business. He knows the global work boat industry better than anyone.
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ferries, Maritime Tourism, Ro-Pax World, Search and Rescue, Work Boat World Features.
Following an excellent performance in 2020 when the global ferry fatality toll was the lowest since the Baird Maritime Passenger Vessel Accident database commenced in 196 ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Naval, Work Boat World Features.
Reclusive, Orkney-based author Angus Konstam is impressively productive and exceptionally good at digging out unusual bits of naval history. His latest little Osprey “N ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Naval, Work Boat World Features.
This is an interesting but rather over-long approach to a well-known and very important naval battle. However, despite the excessive detail incorporated in this very usef ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Naval, Work Boat World Features.
This is another book that combines the talents of former American naval officer, and now brilliant academic historian, Mark Stille, and the formidable Anglo-American publ ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Naval, Work Boat World Features.
This is another excellent example of Osprey Publishing’s “Campaign” series of brief but information-packed histories of important naval battles. In this case, the s ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Catching, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Fishing & Aquaculture, Fishing Boat World Features, Work Boat World Features.
To declare a bias, I first met the author in at a FishExpo in Seattle nearly forty years ago. We got on well and have remained vaguely in touch since. Like me, he is a f ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Naval, Work Boat World Features.
Mark Stille is a former officer in the United States Navy who has since become a very energetic and prolific academic historian. He also thinks deeply about the subjects ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Maritime Security, Naval, Work Boat World Features.
Reading this first-rate book soon after the United States of America withdrew ignominiously, after 20 wasted years, from Afghanistan, it was more than ever difficult to u ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Passenger Vessels, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Passenger Vessels, Passenger Vessel World, Work Boat World Features.
As we approach year’s end, this is our final Vessel Feature Week for 2021. After this, we will be announcing our much sought-after Baird Maritime Awards. For us, they a ..
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