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Construction on the Varberg Tunnel in Sweden—part of a modern railway project—has resulted in an unexpected bounty of historical underwater finds: six shipwrecks spanning the Middle Ages to the 17 th ...
The Lottie Cooper tragedy, which claimed a Norwegian sailor in 1894, is on display near the YMCA with the frame of the ship ...
ALPENA, MI – This early freighter’s steel hull proved brittle when it tore apart on a Lake Huron reef in 1906. The nearly 300 ...
Mickey and Minnie have been installed on the stern of Disney Cruise Line's massive new ship, Disney Adventure.
Construction workers excavating the site of a former fish market in Spain made a breathtaking discovery in the form of a medieval wooden ship.. The Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) reported ...
When a ship is decommissioned, its name will be struck from the Naval Vessel Register, allowing the Navy to reuse it on a future vessel. Its hull designation , on the other hand, will never be reused.
After more than three years’ construction in a cavernous assembly hall in Rosyth, Fife, the 28-metre-tall doors were opened and HMS Venturer began to emerge. The ship is the first of five Type ...
Huge wind turbine ship that attracted attention in Hull completes its first installation at offshore wind farm Wind Peak will install 100 turbines, each standing over 250m tall, at RWE’s Sofia ...
ELECTRIC welding, instead of rivetting, is being widely adopted in shipbuilding. In German naval dockyards it has practically superseded rivetting. Electrically welded ships have practically no ...
Using timber from West Sweden, the clinker-built style craft—where the edges of the timbers overlap—still included two hull sections from the ship’s starboard side, along with scattered timbers.