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HMS Victory’s remaining masts are coming down

Alastair — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:38:43 +0000

HMS Victory’s team of conservators, shipwrights and riggers have started taking down her remaining masts as part of The Big Repair – the ten-year, £42m project to conserve Nelson’s flagship for future generations. As Stuart Sheldon, Lead Rigger at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, puts it: “HMS Victory matters to people in a […]

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The London Museum – Docklands

Alastair — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:33:33 +0000

The London Museum Docklands is a ‘must-see’ museum that tells the history of the River Thames and the growth of London’s huge port system from the first Roman settlements to the modern-day regeneration of the Canary Wharf area. It is housed, appropriately, right at the heart of docklands in the ‘No. 1 Warehouse’ at West […]

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What’s the significance of Brittany Ferries’ New-Generation Cross-Channel Ferries?

Alastair — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:10:37 +0000

Almost one year ago, Brittany Ferries introduced their new flagship ‘Guillaume de Normandie‘, intended to replace the old ‘Normandie‘ on their Portsmouth – Caen/Ouistreham* route. Like her sister ship, Saint-Malo (SM), which began operating Portsmouth – St Malo two months earlier, the Guillaume de Normandie (GdN) is not a simple replacement, she’s a Chinese-built new-generation […]

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What would happen if your preferred Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) shut down?

Alastair — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:36:08 +0000

This is some interesting engineering. Have you wondered, as you watch your Amazon parcel “just 5 stops away”, what our world would look like if we suddenly lost GPS? It’s not just you, and a squillion delivery drivers. It would effect all transport systems (apart maybe for rail!), and it’s estimated that just a short […]

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Another Operator Interested in Ground Effect Vessels

Alastair — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:00:36 +0000

REGENT Craft, the developer and manufacturer of all-electric Seaglider vessels, and DHL Express have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the use of electric Seaglider vessels for short haul, coastal, and island logistics, at this week’s Dubai Airshow. The Seaglider Ground Effect Vessel (GEV), a next-generation maritime craft, combines the speed of […]

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Sail-powered cargo ship will also carry passengers

Alastair — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:23:23 +0000

Yesterday, the French shipping company Neoline held a naming ceremony in its registration port of Nantes for its first sail-powered Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) cargo ship. As I write, Neoliner Origin, is heading down the Loire estuary* passing the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard at St. Nazaire where she got her two giant, self-furling, self-adjusting SolidSails that […]

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Cunard’s 185th anniversary celebrated with an exhibition of historic photographs

Alastair — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:06:15 +0000

Tomorrow (27 May) in Liverpool, the shipping and cruise line Cunard opens its new ‘Sea of Glamour’ photography exhibition, celebrating the line’s 185 year history. Curated by British photographer and filmmaker Mary McCartney, the exhibition features 185 incredible images – sourced from the Cunard archives, and a collection of guest pictures, chosen from more than […]

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airbnb overnights on the USS Cobia, a WW2 Gato-class submarine

Alastair — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:23:41 +0000

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum’s USS Cobia is now available for overnight Bed & Breakfast bookings through airbnb. The US Navy submarine, which played a key role in the Pacific during World War II and has been has been a museum ship in Wisconsin since 1970, can take private groups of over 16 people for overnight […]

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Former HMS Ambuscade expected to return to Glasgow as a Ship Museum

Alastair — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:30:01 +0000

The Type 21 frigate and veteran of the Falklands War, PNS Tariq (ex-HMS Ambuscade) is expected to return to her birthplace on the Clyde sometime next year, to become a ship museum. HMS Ambuscade was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde 1n 1973 and served with the Royal Navy, including during the Falklands War, […]

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Dunkirk Maritime and Port Museum

Alastair — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:39:13 +0000

The Dunkirk Maritime and Port Museum (Musée Maritime & Portuaire de Dunkerque) tells the history of France’s third largest port, its workers, its ships, and its seamen. “Wait! What? Third largest?” That may come as a surprise to some, because to most people, especially anglophiles, Dunkerque or “Dunkirk” is pretty much known for just one […]

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