When borders closed, seafarers on ships around the world suddenly had no way home. Half a year later, there’s no solution in sight.
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By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) – Shipping industry officials called on Thursday for safe passage for hundreds of seafarers and their ships stuck in Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian maritime officials...
Float out of Genting Dream at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany on August 19, 2016. The Genting Dream is 335.35 m long, 39.7 m wide and has a gr...
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In memory of the great ships and their brave crews...lost in the Battle of Java Sea 1941.
The Markgraf was among dozens of ships from the German High Seas Fleet scuttled by their crews off Orkney in 1919.
WITH A DESTROYER FLOTILLA AT SEA. AUGUST 1940, ON BOARD SHIPS OF THE FLOTILLA. A Supermarine Spitfire dive bombing a destroyer to exercise gun crews. Creator: Ware, C J (Lt). Source: © IWM (A 475)
Aircraft carriers are ships outfitted with flight decks to launch and land airplanes. Learn about the parts of aircraft carriers and aircraft carrier crews.
An escort carrier battles through the Arctic Sea during the winter of 1944–45. The crews of merchant ships and their escorts faced not only the danger of enemy attacks but often fierce gales and huge seas.
Due to outbreaks of Covid-19 among crews, the Naval Service has been forced to introduce new protocols in an effort to prevent further ships being tak...
These ghost ships aren’t home to phantom sailors, but they are equally mysterious, with crews that seemingly vanished in thin air.
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Recruitment Pirate crews needed frequent replenishing.Most pirates were volunteers, but casualties from combat,disease,accidents and occasional desertions took their toll.So pirates took every opportunity they could to acquire new men.Since able seamen,maritime carpenters,coopers and navigators were preferred,it was sensible for pirates to seek recruits from among the crews of the ships they took as prizes.
Bartholomew Roberts, also known as Black Bart, was a notorious pirate who raided ships. Here are some of the harsh - and sometimes unexpected - rules that governed the crews on his ships: The Pirate Code.
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Navies are tough on their ships. From commissioning to when they leave the service, naval vessels are driven hard, fulfilling myriad missions and carrying their sailors and marines the world over. More often than not at the end of their service these ships are sold to allies, scrapped or sometimes sunk to create coral reefs or for target practice. However, there are some that are preserved as places for the public to get a sense for what life was like for warships and their crews on the high seas. In the U.S. there are 164 ships, members of the Historic
Once a major hub for the shipping industry, all five Great Lakes contain lighthouses that were used to guide ships and their crews to safety. Many crew members of these ships encountered untimely deaths at these lighthouses, however, making them a hub for something else. Here are 11 tales of spirits, in lighthouses ranging from Michigan to New York.
Wendy Laursen looks at how a European programme and various indepenent initiatives aim to apply air transport technology to ships in order to take control ashore rather than rely entirely on ship crews, thus reducing the risk of human error and, hopefully, enhancing safety.
