Passenger Features/Opinion (Passenger)

Frances Bodkin – Catamaran ferries to serve commuter routes in Australia’s Sydney Harbour
TT-Line Company's Spirit of Tasmania IV. The ferry was already handed over in 2024, but technical issues and a lack of adequate wharf facilities have prevented it from entering service as originally scheduled.
Navigator with binoculars on ship's bridge
COLUMN | Holiday Shorts 2025, part one of two: four maritime films for your vacation and two books [Offshore Accounts]
Viking Hathor & Viking Sobek – Viking's 82-guest newbuilds to sail on Nile River cruises
BOOK REVIEW | Leith-Built Ships, Volume 4: Robb Caledon [Leith Division] 1965-1984
AWARDS 2024 | Best Medium Ferry – Vittorio Morace – Liberty Lines
COLUMN | An Easter tale of two shipbuilding island nations: one self-crucified, the other resurrected [An Innocent Australian]
COLUMN | Resurrection at Easter, part two of two: subsea mining scramble; Wood Group woes; a new ferry fiasco in Scotland [Offshore Accounts]
Sea Express III – Fast catamaran ferry delivered to Virgin Islands operator
BOOK REVIEW | Shiphandling, The Beautiful Game
OPINION | Sunk costs: Pacific shipwrecks and the urgent call for the Nairobi Convention
COLUMN | Another ferry fiasco: Kiwi recovery as shambolic Scots look good compared to hapless Tasmanians [Offshore Accounts]
Seabreeze (photo date unknown)
Rescuers scour the waters of Myanmar's Yangon River for any sign of passengers who went missing after a ferry capsized in the area on July 10, 2024. At least five of the ferry's passengers perished in the tragedy while another three have gone missing.
China State Shipbuilding Corporation yard
Bridge consoles on the Royal New Zealand Navy survey ship HMNZS Manawanui, November 22, 2019 (cropped from original)
The Twelve Days of Christmas 2024: three black wells in Namibia, two Namibian jailbirds, and a Scottish ferry in a pear tree [Offshore Accounts]
United States in the mid-1950s (colorised version of a black and white photograph by an unknown author)
Loose ends, part one: Scottish Ferry Fiasco nears first finish; SBM’s Whistleblower vindicated [Offshore Accounts]
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