It was a picture of a brand new pilot boat in Work Boat World that got me thinking; a beautiful and powerful craft, clearly built for heavy weather and the efficient ..
Tag: history
Low-key shipping legend Frank Tsao Wen King died last weekend in Singapore aged 95. He had been ill for some years.
He was a leader of the hugely successful group of ..
Edited by Rob Houston
A magnificent and beautifully illustrated book in the best of DK (or Dorling Kindersley) ..
COLUMN | What do the Saudi Arabian drone attacks mean for the offshore industry? [Offshore Accounts]
Monday opened with the most significant spike in the oil price since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, with Brent crude shooting up 20 per cent to over US$70 per ..
By Michael Veitch
This excellent book has been a long time coming. Your reviewer, whose father fought in the battle, thought ..
By Ben Smith An interesting approach to maritime, or at least ship, history. This is a little book comprising some 33 very briefly but well captioned postcards. However ..
Commercial fishing is an industry rooted in tradition. The Fish Mammas of Ghana are honoured for the generations that they have acted as the rightful middlemen between ..
By Mariano Sciaroni
A most interesting and thought-provoking book that valuably describes an important but largely forgotten ..
In our Commonwealth liners, we were blue water sailors, accustomed to the odd storm and occasional monsoon, but largely unprepared for anything too extreme. Ice was ..
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