For many years prior to independence, India-based warships, frequently indigenously-built, operated within a succession of mainly British-officered maritime forces. The ..
On the same day that a jury in New York convicted disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein of two counts of criminal sexual acts, all eyes in offshore were on Houston, ..
Readers with long memories (i.e. old ones) will recall that in 2000, the CEO of BP, John Browne, now Baron Browne of Madingley, vowed that the company’s initials would ..
The importance of pearling to the maritime history of Australia is oft forgotten. Without the expensive marketing campaigns of a handful of modern cultured pearl ..
Forgive me, gentle reader, I am not referring to that Mr. Bean, but rather to Martin Bean, who is said to be vice-chancellor of the Royal Melbourne Institute of ..
As with any well-run ship, a regular task in port, for some responsible officer, was to read the draught marks on bow and stern. It was important, for several obvious ..
The Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis recently released a thought-provoking assessment of the US Navy’s plan for its surface forces. Taking ..
For the past three or four years the Baird Maritime portal has seemingly featured news about newly launched tugs almost daily. Interestingly, the tug sector is apparently ..
The construction of this series of 70 World War II-style ships commenced in 1948 in four Soviet shipyards with the first commissioned in February 1950. Nothing like a ..
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