How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? ~transport Article 4393 words, published May 10 2021 15 votes
Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures ~travel Article 1236 words 10 votes
For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage ~humanities.history Article 1014 words 10 votes
Supply bottlenecks leave dozens of container ships anchored off California coast ~finance Article 1085 words, published Mar 21 2021 7 votes
Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years ~transport Article 926 words 21 votes
Massive container ship stuck in Suez Canal, blocking world's busiest shipping route ~transport Article 1162 words 44 votes
Multiple US Navy destroyers were swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California over numerous nights ~tech Article 2912 words 11 votes
Shipping carriers rejected tons of US agricultural exports, opting to send empty containers to China instead ~news usa china Article 1993 words 11 votes
Two documentary makers have gone on trial in Sweden concerning the illegal exploration of the 1994 MS Estonia ferry disaster wreck ~tv Article 542 words 5 votes
Sweden looks to change law so 1994 ferry disaster can be re-examined – new documentary questions findings of original investigation ~transport Article 636 words 5 votes
This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 838 words 5 votes
Norway pioneered electric ferries – now it's making them self-driving ~transport Article 862 words 8 votes
Wallenius Marine is developing a ship called Oceanbird, which could transport 7,000 cars and trucks across the Atlantic propelled only by the wind ~enviro Article 764 words, published Oct 22 2020 7 votes
The COVID cruise ship and the Maine fishing town ~health Article 4061 words, published Sep 2 2020 4 votes
Sweden, Finland and Estonia to look at new evidence on MS Estonia sinking in 1994 – ferry sank with the loss of 852 lives, in one of Europe's worst peacetime maritime disasters ~transport Article 276 words 7 votes
A group of migrants rescued by a Danish tanker in the Mediterranean have been allowed to land in Italy after more than forty days at sea ~transport Article 5 votes
Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea ~humanities.history Article 332 words 8 votes
Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard ~health Article 440 words 11 votes
What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective? ~humanities.history Video 4:04, published Jun 22 2020 7 votes
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century ~humanities.history Article 181 words 6 votes
US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission ~transport Article 1379 words 6 votes
The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months ~humanities.history Article 2744 words 32 votes
What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill ~humanities.history Video 4:58, published Jan 21 2020 7 votes
Shipments of SUVs wait out at at sea, revealing scope of US auto market glut ~transport Article 13 votes
How the virus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt may help coronavirus researchers ~health Article 987 words 6 votes
Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken US aircraft carrier finds that about 60% of positive cases have not shown symptoms ~health Article 584 words 14 votes
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine ~humanities.history Article 852 words 9 votes
Acting US Navy Secretary: 'I stand by every word I said' after leak of carrier speech ~health Article 109 words 11 votes
Venezuelan patrol ship sunk itself after ramming a cruise liner with a reinforced hull ~transport Article 1186 words 9 votes
Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020 ~health Article 3537 words 3 votes
Coronavirus forces cruise ships to drop anchor in surprising places around the world ~health Article 1597 words, published Mar 1 2020 5 votes
State Department warns Americans against cruise ship travel during coronavirus outbreak ~health Article 1102 words 11 votes
Quarantined by coronavirus, cruise ship passengers make 'life-long friends' ~life Article 1252 words 10 votes
Ten passengers aboard a cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus ~health Article 350 words 8 votes
Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976 ~humanities.history Article 542 words 3 votes
Oslo to introduce electric ferries from next year – five newly-built electric boats will ply their way around the Inner Oslofjord ~transport Link 4 votes
The demise of formal nights on cruises: How dress codes are tearing passengers apart ~travel Article 1577 words 14 votes
Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway ~humanities.history Article 353 words 7 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa ~humanities.history Article 359 words, published Nov 8 2019 5 votes
How a cargo ship helped win WW2: The Liberty Ship story ~humanities.history Video 7:21, published Nov 15 2017 4 votes
How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac ~humanities.history Article 2163 words, published Oct 18 2019 4 votes
Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident ~humanities.history Article 237 words, published Jul 19 2019 4 votes
New Zealand has launched its first big boat of the 2021 America's Cup ~sports Article 210 words 5 votes