I was reading about an account of a recent accident involving a ship’s lifeboat, but not a serious one, thank goodness, with a man having to be fished out of the water. ..
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Australia: It could be said that the only thing keeping the New South Wales Liberal/National coalition state government in power is the even greater incompetence of its A ..
FEATURE | In for the long haul (part 1): good news and bad news about Australia’s frigate transition
Moving from the Collins-class submarines to the Attack class is not the only long and complex capability transition that the Royal Australian Navy is embarking upon. The ..
A 27-year-old South Australian man has appeared in Sydney Central Local Court following the seizure of approximately 200 kilograms of cocaine allegedly located on board a ..
For most of the last century Australia was involved in war. In the two world wars alone, Australia committed over forty merchant ships as troop carriers, hospital ships a ..
The New South Wales state government has awarded a A$1.3 billion (US$920 million) contract to Transdev to add 400 weekly ferry services to its existing operations in Sydn ..
Regular readers may recall my article of October 31 last year titled Sydney Ferries fiasco. Well, my questioning then of the competence and honesty of the Liberal/Nationa ..
By Captain James Colnett RN
This is a wonderful and enjoyable little book. It comprises a very well up-dated and annotated jo ..
For the last 100 years, Sydney ferries have been designed and built to meet peak load demand.
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