When this book first arrived from the publisher, your reviewer was tempted to bin it. Its rather “sensationalist” cover reminded him of the avalanche of books about ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Work Boat World Features.
When this book first arrived from the publisher, your reviewer was tempted to bin it. Its rather “sensationalist” cover reminded him of the avalanche of books about ..
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Dry Cargo World, Search and Rescue.
A live export vessel with a cargo of 14,600 sheep capsized off the coast of Romania on Sunday, November 24. The Palau-flagged Queen Hind had just left the Port of Midia ..
Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on . Posted in Maritime Security World, Ship World Features, Tanker World.
In the early hours of July 4, an armed party of British Royal Marines. embarked in a helicopter, and a number of RHIBs, boarded the VLCC Grace 1, off the British ..
Written by Alexey Muraviev on . Posted in Naval, Work Boat World Features.
While the world’s attention in recent weeks has been firmly fixed on the United States’ presidential race, Russia under Vladimir Putin has made a number of surprising ..
Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on . Posted in Maritime Security World, Work Boat World Features.
Strategically located, multi ethnic, multi-faith Lebanon is frequently the focus for regional security problems. These are often maritime in nature. There are sea border ..
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Maritime Security World, Tanker World.
The British military has detained an Iranian crude tanker in the waters off Gibraltar after it received intelligence that the vessel was transporting oil to Syria in ..
Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.
Hamlet famously asked, “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles”. ..
Written by Trevor Hollingsbee on . Posted in Maritime Security World, Ship World Features, Tanker World.
On July 19, Iranian forces conducted a professionally-executed operation to seize the Swedish-owned, UK-flagged, tanker Stena Impero, while it was underway in ..
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Dry Cargo World, Non-Naval (Maritime Security).
The Hellenic Coast Guard intercepted and seized on December 5 a Syrian-flagged vessel carrying drugs worth approximately US$113 million.
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