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		<title>MV MONA LISA, Double Decked!Part One:  KUNGSHOLM toSEA PRINCESS to VICTORIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As this MONA LISA/KUNGSHOLM Decked! is revisited eight years on, the lovely liner is dead-headed to Piraeus to destore fittings prior to being sold. It appears that two attempts to bring the ship to Sweden (the first to her former home port of Gothenburg and the second, to Stockholm) have officially collapsed. The ex KUNGSHOLM, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/09/mona-lisa-double-deckedpart-one-mv-kungsholm-tomv-sea-princess-to-mv-victoria/</link>
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		<title>Southampton Restores TITANIC Engineers Memorial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/09/southampton-restores-titanic-engineers-memorial/</link>
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		<title>HM The Queen To Name QUEEN ELIZABETH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth will be naming Cunard&#8217;s latest vessel, the QUEEN ELIZABETH in Southampton on Monday, October 11, 2010, just prior to the ship&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/09/hm-the-queen-to-name-queen-elizabeth/</link>
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		<title>Adieu RENAISSANCE! &#8212; Updated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/08/adieu-renaissance/</link>
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		<title>Scotland&#8217;s CITY OF ADELAIDE To Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scotland&#8217;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: &#8220;The &#8216;City of Adelaide&#8217; has an illustrious past shared by two nations, Scotland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/08/scotlands-city-of-adelaide-to-australia/</link>
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		<title>CLIPPER ADVENTURER Hits Uncharted Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/08/clipper-adventurer-hits-uncharted-rock/</link>
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		<title>MV MINGHUA Lives On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;Atlantique, St. Nazaire 14,224 gt 551 x 72 ft 2 12-cyl diesels, Burmeister &#38; Wain from builders Twin Screw, 22 1/2 knots Passengers: Four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/08/ss-minghua-lives-on/</link>
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		<title>MV AURORA Double Decked! Part One:WAPPEN VON HAMBURG to FAITHFUL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s history from German coastal liner to pioneering cruise ship and Christian accommodation vessel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/08/mv-aurora-double-decked-part-one/</link>
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		<title>TSS MANXMAN&#8217;s Final Hour? &#8212; Updated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;S QUEEN, TYNWALD, SNAEFELL and MONA&#8217;S ISLE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://maritimematters.com/2010/08/tss-manxmans-final-hour/</link>
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		<title>TITANIC Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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