Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson and detained its crew
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Swedish nonprofit owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage
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Shropshire blacksmith is part of a team that has been invited to Denmark to forge an authentic anchor for a reconstructed Viking ship
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International scientists are heading to Greenland on the UK's polar research ship RRS Sir David Attenborough to study how quickly melting ice sheets are pushing vital ocean currents towards collapse
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I sail the world in a replica 10th-century Viking longboat – it has brought new friendships and showed me how generous people can be
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Finland tests new system to help detect threats to subsea cables before incidents happen – scores of breaches in previous years have crippled critical underwater infrastructure
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Electric ships are slowly starting to make sense
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The high‑tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
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Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels
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The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
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Newcastle council is looking into restoring a ferry route between the UK city and Bergen in Norway – it last operated in 2008, when it was cancelled due to rising oil prices
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European nations issue warning to Russia-linked shadow fleet
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Finland is the undisputed world leader when it comes to icebreakers – Finnish companies have designed 80% of all those currently in operation, and 60% were built at shipyards there
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Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
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Scientists find foreign trees and one fingerprint on iron age warship from Scandinavia
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Bringing back the battleship? - Railguns, US shipbuilding and a 35,000 ton bad idea?
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How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
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Supercritical CO2 is used to extract caffeine from coffee, but this strange phase of carbon dioxide is really weird
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“The Edmund Fitzgerald - First divers on the Fitz”
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Not all Norwegian folk tales are friendly stories of trolls turning to stone or gnomes stirring porridge – the story of ‘Draugen’
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Flettner rotor sail technology was invented more than 100 years ago. Modern need for fuel efficiency is bringing it back.
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After more than a century of various proposals and planning, Norway has once again officially abandoned the ambitious Stad Ship Tunnel project
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For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
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Radioactive hulk of aircraft carrier USS Independence located off San Francisco coast (2015)
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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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Frontline report: Russia’s oil smugglers are running out of ocean as UK freezes 100+ shadow fleet tankers
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Norway wants to be Europe's carbon dump – aiming to capture carbon dioxide from factories and bury it beneath the North Sea
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The hidden engineering of floating bridges
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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Denmark tests unmanned robotic sailboat fleet – vessels will patrol Danish and NATO waters in the Baltic and North Seas, where maritime tensions and suspected sabotage have escalated
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In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered
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Global ferry electrification accelerates: 70% of new orders go electric
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Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
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My shipwreck story
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MV Derbyshire: the sinking no one could explain
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How immersed tube tunnels are built
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way at the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum
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World's first commercial-scale e-methanol plant begins operations in Denmark – Maersk set to buy part of the production as a low-emission fuel for its fleet of container ships
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The first ships carrying Chinese goods with 145% tariffs are arriving in Los Angeles. Shipments are down.
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How the US built 5,000 ships in World War II
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I actually bought a $1,000 electric boat from China. Here’s what showed up.
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How the 'Shetland Bus' helped Norway resist Nazi Germany – innocent-looking fishing boats delivered valuable cargo and special agents
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All ships passing through European waters must now provide proof of insurance
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US lays out plans to hit Chinese ships with port fees
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Cancellations of Chinese freight ships begin as bookings plummet
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