Tweet Britain’s Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a grant of just under £1 million to the SS ROBIN, which will allow the ship to re-open to the public. Floating above the water on purpose-built pontoon, SS ROBIN returned to her London home last summer after a three year restoration program. The…
Tweet Update 4: February 3 – The PNG Maritime Safety Authority says 246 people have been pulled from the sea, vessels and aircraft are still searching. The Authority’s Captain Nurur Rahman said that people can survive for 3 or 4 days in the warmer water, and they will continue searching…
Tweet News stories coming out of Washington State this week indicate we are witnessing the very end of an era for several of the more senior members of the large fleet of ferries that once plied the waters of Puget Sound, some dating back to the 1920′s. On Monday, January…
Tweet Continuing Shawn J. Dake’s Cruise Ships 2011, The Year In Review: Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean International placed an order for two additional ships under the code name “Project Sunshine,” which will represent their next generation after the OASIS and ALLURE OF THE SEAS. The 158,000 gross ton vessels…
Tweet Update: February 1, the U.S. Coast Guard has received a salvage plan submitted by Foss Maritime, owners of the stranded DELTA MARINER. Local divers have confirm that debris from the bridge was not in contact with the ship’s hull and importantly that the hull did not sustain any significant…
Tweet Keep up to date with Peter Knego on Twitter by clicking here Strikes at Fincantieri’s troubled Sestri Ponente shipyard (formerly the famed Ansaldo that built LEONARDO DA VINCI, ANDREA DORIA and a galaxy of brilliant Italian liners) have delayed the completion of Oceania Cruises 1,250 passenger RIVIERA. The maiden…
Tweet Cunard Line Keep up to date with Peter Knego on Twitter by clicking here QUEEN ELIZABETH Triple Decked!, Part One of a three part top-to-bottom virtual tour Gleaned From a Cunard Line Press Release: On 4 February, Cunard Line’s QUEEN ELIZABETH will make her inaugural call to San Francisco,…
Tweet Continuing Shawn J. Dake’s Cruise Ships 2011, The Year In Review: Aida, Ibero & Paquet Aida Cruises took delivery of their newest ship, the 2,192 passenger AIDASOL in the first quarter of 2011. On April 1st, it had the distinction of being the first vessel to use the new…
Tweet COSTA CONCORDIA A Look At The Short Career Of A Cruise Ship By Shawn J. Dake When a large passenger ship meets with disaster, that event becomes the only thing the ship will forever be known for in the minds of the public. Such will be the case with…
Tweet In the span of one week since the grounding of the COSTA CONCORDIA, many words have been written and images have flashed across television screens throughout the world. The media continues to search for ever more salacious elements to a story that by itself is already not lacking in drama. …
