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Built in 1911 and at the heart of supplying Allied forces during the two world wars, D/S Hestmanden has berthed in Leith this ...
Star of the Seas has completed her sea trials like the Star she is, and is one important step closer to her August debut.
Star of the Seas will have a 5,610-passenger capacity based on double occupancy — but will approach 8,000 passengers plus ...
An east coast fishing vessel has returned back to the region for the first time in more than a century as it prepares for a new lease of life.
Around 20 years ago a maritime historian told me about an almost forgotten little Belfast-built ship called The Mullogh.
A ketch’s mainmast is forward and its smaller mizzenmast is aft. “In the old days, when they were sailing cargo, the schooner ...
An official report into last year’s yacht tragedy, which killed seven, found that the boat could easily capsize in high winds ...
Volunteers from the RNLI in Troon were called out to rescue a sailing vessel with "machinery problems" that was drifting off the Ayrshire coast. Crews were alerted to the stricken vessel shortly after ...
But a sailing trip gone awry has brought him to ... Years later, he found out why the 11-ton steel ketch vessel was special — in the 1990 “Cape to Rio Race” across the southern Atlantic ...
Perhaps the singular merit of Ian Kumekawa’s “Empty Vessel” is to remind us that, before President Trump steamrolled the news cycle with tariffs, globalism was already a well-established ...
They are sailing from Palau in the Southwest Pacific to Taiwan's outlying Orchid Island to revive ancient cultural links between the two island countries. Trump proposes $163 billion cut to ...
Two weeks earlier, Lush had set sail from Cape Town ... he confirmed by noting that the masthead instruments on his cat-ketch rig had vanished. Those spars were still standing.