Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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US naval buildup in Indo-Pacific seen as warning to China
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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The day the pirates came
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill
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Shipments of SUVs wait out at at sea, revealing scope of US auto market glut
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Inside the nightmare voyage of the Diamond Princess
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Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates
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How the virus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt may help coronavirus researchers
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Australian, US vessels in South China Sea as China flexes muscles
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Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic
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Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken US aircraft carrier finds that about 60% of positive cases have not shown symptoms
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Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
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Acting US Navy Secretary: 'I stand by every word I said' after leak of carrier speech
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Venezuelan patrol ship sunk itself after ramming a cruise liner with a reinforced hull
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COVID-19 cases reported on both US aircraft carriers in western Pacific
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Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020
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Coronavirus forces cruise ships to drop anchor in surprising places around the world
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Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
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Quarantined by coronavirus, cruise ship passengers make 'life-long friends'
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Divers discover an abandoned underwater strip club
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Ten passengers aboard a cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus
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Oslo to introduce electric ferries from next year – five newly-built electric boats will ply their way around the Inner Oslofjord
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Sweden dodged a bullet by not building this nuclear submarine – the reactor had an insufficient amount of nuclear shielding
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster
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The demise of formal nights on cruises: How dress codes are tearing passengers apart
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The story of Freedom Ship
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Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway
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He was hijacked by pirates - and then mistaken for one. One man’s ordeal in the Gulf of Guinea, the world’s most dangerous shipping route.
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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
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Oslo wants to build the world's first zero-emissions port
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How a cargo ship helped win WW2: The Liberty Ship story
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How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Sweden's navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack – seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia
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Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident
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US Navy Surface Action Group consisting of a cruiser, three destroyers, and a helicopter strike squadron are operating in the Arctic waters surrounding Iceland
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New Zealand has launched its first big boat of the 2021 America's Cup
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg nears end of her Atlantic crossing on zero-carbon yacht
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Sweden receives indications Iran is ready to release British tanker Stena Impero
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International science expedition reached the North Pole with the Norwegian coastguard's vessel KV Svalbard
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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The world's largest all-electric ferry has completed its maiden voyage between Søby to Fynshav
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The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers
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Gothenburg port in Sweden has installed the country's first automated sobriety check to prevent drivers over the alcohol limit from venturing on to its road network
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Wonderful Copenhagen was set up to bring more tourists to the Danish capital – now it's under fire for doing too little to stop them coming
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Twice a year this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm's archipelago
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