The steam-powered freighter SOLON TURMAN was towed from the California’s Suisuin Bay mothball fleet today to be cleansed and dismantled, but unlike previous ships that have gone to the scrapyards this one will not be making the long final voyage to Brownsville, Texas. Instead, the ship will travel about six…
Kristina Cruises has announced today that its 1960-built MV KRISTINA REGINA (ex BORE) may be sold to a newly-formed Turku-based company, Oy S/S Borea Ab for use as a floating hotel and museum. The handsome twin funneled, 4,295 gt liner, which was originally steam powered, will be forced out of…
July 26, 2010 Update:: Kudos to Mr. Hallgren for his ongoing efforts to find a home for this former Swedish icon. He is in talks with the port of Stockholm (who were originally NOT interested), which is now showing some interest in providing a possible berth for the MONA LISA. …
The MS PHILIPPINES is the last surviving genuine Italian ocean liner, having spent the past 34 years in Asia, either laid up or in part time use as an adjunct to the Manila Hotel. This page shows the beautifully preserved ship in her original guise as Italian Lines’ proud motorliner…
In astonishingly good news for ship preservationists today, the S.S. United States Conservancy, a group dedicated to saving the laid up liner SS UNITED STATES from scrap, have managed to get a deal in place to buy the historic liner from the NCL Group for US$3 million. July 1st, is…
Members of the “TheQE2Story” discussion forum for the QE2 will come together on the 1947 Clyde-built Paddle Steamer WAVERLEY and also gather at the Clyde-based Titan Crane on June 27. Rob Lightbody (who runs TheQE2Story.com) states, “The original purpose of the discussion forum was to keep the QE2’s legendary story…
The 1914-built battleship TEXAS, a veteran of both World Wars, has been moored at the San Jacinto Battleground, Texas since 1948. Her hull was last repaired in the late 1980s and has since become dangerously weakened from years of exposure to the brackish water of the Houston Ship Channel. A…
Posted Sunday, June 13, 2010 The terribly sad images at the bottom of the page speak for themselves. We have received many requests from people to publish them as they lend a certain “closure” to the sorrowful INDEPENDENCE saga. The photos were forwarded to MaritimeMatters by James Hood, who found…
A haunting series of images taken of the stranded and now quite visibly broken SS PLATINUM II (ex INDEPENDENCE, SEA LUCK I, OCEANIC INDEPENDENCE, OCEANIC) have been forwarded to MaritimeMatters by James Hood. Once we get the URL for the website, we will provide a link but thus far, the…
The 1957-built liquid bulk tanker GETTYSBURG is the latest ship to depart Suisuin Bay for BAE Systems in San Francisco for hull cleaning prior to being towed to Brownsville, Texas, where she will be scrapped. The eighth ship of some 55 slated for disposal by 2017 (the 20 worst of…
