Instability, poor safety equipment and an unqualified crew led to nine Britons being killed when a pleasure boat capsized in Bahrain, a court has heard. Fifteen Britons were among the 58 killed when the Al Dana dhow capsized in March last year.
Blackanthem Military News, WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy will christen the USNS Alan Shepard, the newest ship in the Lewis and Clark class of underway replenishment ships, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, during an 8 a.m. PST launching at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), S
Australia’s warships should built on home soil even if it costs more, a Senate committee has recommended. In its report on Australia’s naval shipbuilding sector, the Senate foreign affairs defence and trade committee acknowledged that building locally may come at a cost premium.
The sister ship to the recently delivered six New South Wales Water Police boats officially entered service on December 4 with the Bermuda Water Police. This follows a delivery trip from the West Australian shipyard that included shipping the 16 metre vessel to Savannah, Georgia USA before travellin
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The European Commission has approved under EC Treaty state aid rules regional investment aid of
Earlier this morning, the semi submersible vessel Mighty Servant 3 developed a list and sank after the offloading of the drilling platform
Late Saturday afternoon, Pre-Commissioning Unit Hawaii transited up the Thames River to the Electric Boat shipyard with a broom hoisted on its sail, a proud Navy tradition signifying a “clean sweep” on the ship’s alpha sea trials. Hawaii, the third of the Virginia-class nuclear powered fast attack s
Hiab, the business area providing load handling solutions within Cargotec, has signed a significant service contract for load handling equipment. The contract covers the service of Hiab loader cranes and demountables on 548 Scania trucks used by the Dutch Army. The contract length is 13 years and wo
Transas is delighted to supply a large scale simulator to Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden). The opening ceremony took place on the 7th of December, 2006, and was attended by Chalmers and Transas officials and by the Swedish and international media.
Gulf Craft, a leading boat builder in the region, has celebrated its 25th anniversary against the background of completing new marina facilities at its UAE headquarters. It also launched the Majesty 130, the biggest superyacht ever produced in the region, shortly due to be delivered to a customer in
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador – Mr. John C.S. Lau, President & Chief Executive Officer, Husky Energy Inc., and Mr. Johan Kr. Mikkelsen, President of Norsk Hydro Canada Oil & Gas, announced the discovery of hydrocarbons during delineation drilling in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundl
On 28 November 2006 Meyer Werft delivered the 93,500-gt cruise ship
Despite suffering some serious damage to his boat on Sunday, Thailand’s Rdab Kanjanavanit showed vintage skills to steer “Cedar Swan” to third in the second race of the Multihull class in the 20th Phuket King’s Cup yesterday. A crash with a jet ski left a hole of about 1 foot wide in the front of [&
