Orange Juice Tankers: How Your Breakfast Sails the Seas
More than 205 meters long and 35 meters wide, she sails from São Paulo to the USA, the Netherlands, and Japan with 37,000 tons of
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Hygiene on Sailing Ships – Was It Really So Disgusting?
We all love pirate films and their legions of scraggy, grimy vagrants with knives between rotten teeth. But Hollywood is known for popularizing entertaining stereotypes
Rust Wars – Who Wins Ship Breaking?
As the pandemic swept through the world, numerous vessels lingered at anchor, unused. Combined with rising metal prices due to global material shortages, recycling became
Iconic Ferries of the World Part 5: Europe
9. The Vapur (Turkey) Could this be the shortest transcontinental crossing? It sure is a memorable one, for the public ferry across the Bosporus navigates
Iconic Ferries of the World Part 4: North America
9. Staten Island Ferry (USA) With a cult status matched only by the Venetian Vaporetto and Hong Kong’s Star Ferry, the orange-colored Staten Island Ferry
9 Fascinating Facts about the RMS Titanic
You already know why the Titanic was so disastrously short on lifeboats, or how Bruce Ismay cheated death, or which ship picked up survivors the
Iconic Ferries of the World Part 3: South America
9. The Slow Boat (Peru/Colombia) If your idea of adventure is falling asleep in a musty hammock, while navigating the mosquito-infested Amazon, you are in
Iconic Ferries of the World Part 2: Asia
12. Olkhon Island (Russia) Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, is known for its ancient origins, mysterious witch doctors, and the third largest lake-island on the
Iconic Ferries of the World Part 1: Africa
1. MV Liemba (Tanzania) A main character in one of WWI’s most bizarre combat theaters, this 110-years-old former Imperial German warship is considered the world’s
What Happened to Britain’s Passenger Hovercraft?
In any conversation about Britain’s passenger hovercraft program, it is only a matter of time until the word “awesome” gets thrown in. And indeed, those