As a MaritimeMatters reader, you may know Peter Knego for his amazingly detailed ship blogs, SEA TREKS and DECKED! The roving blogger from internet cafe’s across the globe regularly brings you the latest on new and vintage passenger ships. But when he’s not doing all that, he is trying to save the remains of a [...]
Things at Seattle-based niche market cruise line Cruise West seem to be in flux as the company offices have reportedly shut down, leaving just an outgoing message that states the line is not accepting reservations for future cruises. Cruise West cites it is restructuring under new ownership but will still be operating its two scheduled [...]
Southampton restores Titanic Engineers Memorial with a ceremony today, marking the bravery of the engineers who died when the ill-fated RMS TITANIC sank 98 years ago, en route to New York, after colliding with an iceberg. The memorial was originally unveiled in 1914 by Sir Archibald Denny, president of the Institute of the Marine Engineers, [...]
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth will be naming Cunard’s latest vessel, the QUEEN ELIZABETH in Southampton on Monday, October 11, 2010, just prior to the ship’s maiden sailing on October 12. This will be the fourth Cunarder named by Her Majesty, who launched the SS CARONIA while still a princess in 1947. She also christened the [...]
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, another Japanese-built ferry has arrived [...]
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 shared by two nations, Scotland [...]
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 former copper mine town of [...]
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, 22 1/2 knots Passengers: Four [...]
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, TYNWALD, SNAEFELL and MONA’S ISLE [...]
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 and its remains should be [...]
