The original passenger lists from the Titanic are being made available online for the first time, 95 years after the ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage. The lists could previously be seen only at the National Archives in Kew, south-west London.
A doctor had to be airlifted onto a cruise ship off the south coast after a passenger fell seriously ill. The cruise liner Braemar was 12 miles south of Shoreham, West Sussex, on its way to Dover, Kent, when a man on board started suffering chest pains.
A survivor of the Norwegian vessel which capsized off the coast of Shetland has spoken about the accident which killed eight of his colleagues. Fighting back tears, Egil Hafsas said it took less than five minutes for the Bourbon Dolphin tug to topple.
The Montauk Yacht Club Resort and Marina on Star Island was sold for $34 million to Island Global Yachting, a Florida company that operates more than a dozen other marinas worldwide. “We are thrilled to bring the legendary Montauk Yacht Club into the I.G.Y. collection world-class marinas,” Andrew Fa
A 15-year-old boy and his father are feared to be among five crewmen missing after an anchor handling tug capsized in the Atlantic, killing three people. The coastguard said it would be a “miracle” if the five were found alive.
Moves are being made to tow the Norwegian oil supply ship which capsized off Shetland to shore. Seven of the crew survived the accident but three sailors have been confirmed dead. Five other missing crew members are also presumed dead.
A 5,200-tonne, 141m (463 ft) long, Type 42 Royal Navy destroyer is to spend the weekend on the River Mersey. The nearest that HMS Manchester can dock to her affiliated city to show off her multi-million pound improvements is Liverpool’s Huskisson Dock.
State-run Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Saudi Aramco, is expected to produce an extra 900,000 barrels a day of crude within four years from its Manifa oil field project, Dow Jones Newswires reported on Thursday. According to a statement on Aramco’s Web site, plans for developing the Manifa field in the
Aker Kvaerner has signed a contract with Sevan Production Services Limited for installation of the “Sevan Hummingbird” Floating Production, Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO). The FPSO will be installed on the Chestnut field on the UK Continental Shelf, which is operated by Venture Production. The t
The U.S. Navy said yesterday that it was canceling a widely criticized Lockheed Martin Corp. contract to build a next-generation combat ship after negotiations to control cost overruns failed. ‘We’re disappointed, but we have to have it at a price we can afford,’ Navy Adm. Charles Goddard said at a
Golden Ocean Group Limited (“Golden Ocean”) is pleased to advise that the Company has acquired two newbuilding contracts at Daehan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., South Korea and two newbuilding contracts at Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard in China. The vessels of 170,000 dwt and 176.000 dwt respectively will b
An unincorporated Aker Kvaerner/ERSAI consortium have started early work activities for Agip KCO for the hook-up and commissioning of the first phase of the Kashagan field development in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea. These activities lasts for three months are and are worth up to USD 157
Three crewmen have died and hopes are fading for five others after a boat capsized near a drilling rig in the North Sea. The missing five are believed to be trapped inside the hull of the upturned supply tug.
For the next three years, Statoil will invest NOK 1 billion in environmental technology at the Mongstad refinery north of Bergen. “This will make the entire refinery more robust,” says Bjørn Kåre Viken, vice president for Statoil Mongstad.
