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Ships have been hitting the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly 150 years
A Mexican navy tall ship’s fatal collision with the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday highlighted a hazard that has worried ...
Magnificent tall ship to sail into Dorset
On December 25, 1492, the Santa María ran aground off the coast of present-day Haiti. Unable to salvage the ship, Columbus ...
INSV Kaundinya: Indian Navy’s ‘stitched ship’ inspired by 5th century Ajanta painting
The Indian Navy on Wednesday inducted INSV Kaundinya, a stitched sail ship based on a fifth-century ship showcased in a ...
Navy recreates stitched ship based on 5th century Ajanta paintings
INSV Kaundinya, an ancient stitched sail ship, showcases India's rich shipbuilding heritage with a historic transoceanic ...
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Ships have been hitting the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly 150 years
According to an 1878 report in the New York Daily Tribune, the U.S. Navy wooden ... go from sail ships to steam ships,” Haw said. “You don’t need a huge clearance.” Yet mast strikes ...
Ajanta Cave inspired stitched ship to be inducted today
A one-of-a-kind project to recreate a 5th-century stitched shipbased on an ancient painting from the Ajanta Caves has been ...
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‘How many people get to do that again?’ Pictou shipbuilder on launching Hector for the second time
“How many people get to do that again? I mean, we’re talking an 18th-century sailing vessel, a tall ship,” said Vern Shea, ...
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Indian Navy reconstructs ancient ship inspired by Ajanta Cave paintings
A 1,600-year-old wooden ship, long extinct and no longer in naval service anywhere in the world, has been successfully ...