Tag Archives: Ships

The World’s Largest Message-in-a-Bottle Brings Tidings of Soda

April 19, 2013   Uncategorized
The world's largest message-in-a-bottle has taken to the seas, but it's not a call for rescue or some kind of timeless secret. Its message is just "drink our soda" but damned if it isn't still kind of cool. More »
    


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The World’s Biggest Ship Is Assembled like a Lego Model

March 20, 2013   Uncategorized
With a capacity of more than 16,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers) the CMA CGM Marco Polo currently reigns as the "world's largest container ship" but it won't for much longer. Construction of an even larger line of mega-ships—the Maersk Triple E—will soon be complete and, once launched, will dwarf every other vessel on the high seas. More »


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This Warship Radar Can Detect a Tennis Ball From 15 Miles

March 5, 2013   Uncategorized
And not just a tennis ball from 15 miles away, but a tennis ball 15 miles away and moving at three times the speed of sound. That's the sort of sensitivity the radar operators on the UK's HMS Iron Duke will have the chance to work with when it returns to service next year. More »


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Russian Ghost Cruise Ship Mysteriously Appears After Two Months Adrift

February 22, 2013   Uncategorized
This is the Russian cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova. It disappeared shortly after it left Canada en route to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Two months later it has reappeared as a ghost ship, completely empty, floating adrift 2,400 kilometers off the west coast of Ireland. More »


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Russian Ghost Cruise Ship Reappears

February 22, 2013   Uncategorized
This is the Russian cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova. It disappeared shortly after it left Canada en route to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Now it has reappeared, floating adrift 2,400 kilometers off the west coast of Ireland. More »


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The New Backbone of International Trade Is the Single Biggest Movable Thing We’ve Ever Built

January 17, 2013   Uncategorized
You won't have any trouble finding this Marco Polo in the pool—even with your eyes closed. Five Airbus a380s lined up nose-to-tail still wouldn't match the length, much less the overwhelming mass, of the world's largest container ship. More »


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The New Backbone of International Trade Is the Single Biggest Movable Thing We’ve Ever Built

January 17, 2013   Uncategorized
You won't have any trouble finding this Marco Polo in the pool—even with your eyes closed. Five Airbus a380s lined up nose-to-tail still wouldn't match the length, much less the overwhelming mass, of the world's largest container ship. More »


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This Is Why the US Navy Is the Most Formidable Naval Force In the World

January 4, 2013   Uncategorized
Here's a rare sight: four out of the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers—the largest warships ever built—plus an Enterprise-class carrier docked together. They are resting at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, which coincidentally is the largest naval base in the world. Look at all that engineering and firepower. And it's only half of the Nimitz fleet! More »


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The Amazing History and Figures of the First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier in the World

December 1, 2012   Uncategorized
The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear aircraft carrier in the world, has been officially retired today at a ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia—special appearance by Captain Kirk included. Since her comissioning in November 1961, she has served u...
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The AT&T Custom Cable Ship That Made Modern Telecommunications Possible [Video]

October 2, 2012   Uncategorized
Cable ships that criss-cross the world's oceans, laying lines to facilitate communications, have existed since the 1850s. But in 1961 AT&T launched what was then considered the world's most modern cabl...
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