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Yachts

VESSEL REVIEW | Boardwalk – 117m custom yacht built for family retreats

Baird Maritime
TCG Ç-159
Naval Auxiliary/Support

VESSEL REVIEW | TCG C-159 & TCG C-160 – Turkish Navy's newest landing craft for ship-to-shore, ship-to-ship and pier-to-pier transport

Baird Maritime
Austal's shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. Three Evolved Cape-class patrol boats and three smaller Guardian-class patrol boats are moored pierside while a fourth Evolved Cape-class boat is mounted on a slipway.
Security

OPINION | A welcome wildcat? Austal, AUKUS and an ownership mud wrestle

Michael Shoebridge
The tanker Sea Gull 9 as seen from an Indian Coast Guard patrol aircraft
Accidents

Indian Coast Guard helps stabilise flooded tanker off Paradip

Will Xavier
Creels Pixabay
Unmanned Fishing

Project proposes use of underwater drones to help recover lost fishing gear

Jens Karsten
Sound of Scalpay and Sound of Sleat
Ro-Pax

Scottish operator Western Ferries names newest Ro-Pax pair

Gareth Havelock
The yacht Tai Tam as seen from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft
Accidents

Four rescued from sinking yacht following collision with whale off Norfolk Island

Jens Karsten
A foreign vessel apprehended for suspected illegal fishing and other offences near Scott Reef off Western Australia, September 22, 2026
Fishing Regulation & Enforcement

Two foreign vessels apprehended for suspected illegal fishing off Western Australia

Will Xavier
The decommissioned US Navy Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Klakring after being hit during a live-fire exercise off Scotland, September 25, 2026. Ex-Klakring was expended as a target as part of the joint US-UK Exercise Atlantic Thunder 26.
Naval Ships

Decommissioned US Navy frigate sunk off Scotland during joint exercise

Will Xavier
Greenpeace protester on the New Zealand Government-owned research vessel Tangaroa. Five of the group's activists boarded the vessel without authorisation on September 26, 2026, to protest its use for seabed mineral surveys off New Zealand.
Research, Environment & Training

Attention-seeking environmental activists occupy research vessel following mineral survey off New Zealand

Rafael Sanches
Windward Munich at her christening
Offshore Support & Maintenance

Windward Offshore formally names third hybrid CSOV in series

Gareth Havelock
Royal Daffodil
Ferry

UK's Mersey Ferries opens newest vessel to public

Gareth Havelock
Havbryn
Trawling

Norway's Havbryn welcomes new pelagic trawler to fleet

Jens Karsten
Marinus
Tankers

Sweden's Sirius Shipping christens first tanker in new series

Gareth Havelock
Battleship Diplomat cover
Naval Ships

BOOK REVIEW | Battleship Diplomat: The Enduring Legacy of the USS Missouri

Dr Neil Baird
The charred wreck of the Philippine ferry June Aster. The vessel caught fire while underway off Palawan province on the late evening of September 9, 2026. Seventy-seven people who were on the ferry perished in the tragedy while 43 were rescued and another eight remain unaccounted for as of September 28, 2026.
Coast Guard

Philippine Coast Guard files criminal complaint against ferry captain following deadly fire

Will Xavier
Map of Absheron gas field, Azerbaijan
Gas

Greenlight given for Azerbaijan offshore gas field expansion

Alan Bosworth
The Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse stands as an active aid to navigation at the end of a breakwater located off the coast of Oswego, New York
Marine Infrastructure

USACE begins $14.9m phase of Oswego Harbor breakwater repairs

Alan Bosworth
US Navy Underwater Construction Team (UTC) 1 and Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 conduct arctic exercise missions at Thule Air Base in Greenland
Security

Denmark hopes for lasting NATO role in Greenland following US deal

Reuters
Barakah ADNOC
Tankers

UAE, Kuwait tap offshore transfers to fuel Asian petrochemical rebound

Reuters
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