August 30, 2010 UPDATE: The MAESTRO is now officially beached behind the remains of WINNER 5 (ex AUSONIA). MAESTRO will be cleared for breaking in a couple weeks, allowing WINNER’s demolition to be completed. Once that occurs, she will be dragged closer to the shore, stripped and cut down. Meanwhile,…
Scotland’s Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop announced that the preferred bidder for the 1864-built clipper ship CITY OF ADELAIDE would be the City of Adelaide Preservation Trust, thereby returning the ship to the Australian city after which she was named. Ms Hyslop said: “The ‘City of Adelaide’ has an illustrious past…
CLIPPER ADVENTURER (ex ALLA TARASOVA), a 1975-built passenger ship with 128 passengers and 69 crew members on board, has run aground on an uncharted rock in the Arctic Ocean while on a cruise through the Northwest Passage. No injuries were reported and the passengers have been transferred to Kugluktuk, a…
MINGHUA, (ex ANCERVILLE, SEA WORLD) by Martin Cox (first appeared on MaritimeMatters in 2000. Updated in 2004, 2007, 2010) Built as ANCERVILLE Compagnie de Navigation Paquet, Marseilles Built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique, St. Nazaire 14,224 gt 551 x 72 ft 2 12-cyl diesels, Burmeister & Wain from builders Twin Screw,…
Updated with larger images on August 15, 2011. The 1955-built mini-liner MV WAPPEN VON HAMBURG, after a long life and years of neglect, is about to embark upon a new life along the San Francisco waterfront as the MV AURORA. Part one of this Decked! feature details this handsome ship’s…
British Turbine Steam Ship MANXMAN is reportedly soon to be demolished. MANXMAN was launched from the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, February 8, 1955. She was the last vessel in her class of six similar ships ordered by the Isle of Man Steam Packet. Her sisters KING ORRY, MONA’S QUEEN,…
A well-funded 20-day research expedition intends to create a 3D digital map of the entire TITANIC wreck site. After the wreck of the TITANIC was discovered in 1985 by a team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard, it has been the object of an ongoing argument over whether the famous ship…
Carnival Corporation has ordered the seventh new ship for its German-based AIDA Cruises subsidy in the past six years. The 71,300 gt cruise ship will carry 2.192 passengers and will be constructed by the Meyer-Werft yard in Papenburg, Germany. The line’s goal is to have 10 “club” ships by 2013. …
The Los Angeles Steamship Company came into being around the purchase of two ships already famous on the West Coast; the YALE and HARVARD. These two vessels were originaly built for New York-Boston service, then later operated by Admiral Line on the West Coast before World War 1. The U.S.…
Updated with larger images — August 14, 2011. Join Peter Knego on one of his 2010 Sea Treks aboard the 1955-built MV AURORA (ex WAPPEN VON HAMBURG, DELOS, PACIFIC STAR, POLAR STAR, XANADU, EXPEX, FAITHFUL) as she is towed from her recent moorings at Rio Vista in the Sacramento River…
