Drifting cruise ship, Lyubov Orlova, is now being towed by offshore supply vessel (OSV) Atlantic Hawk. The OSV was able to successfully secure a tow line to the derelict Orlova on Wednesday night off Newfoundland’s coast. The Russian cruise ship had been drifting for nearly one week in the North Atlantic Ocean after its…
Toward the open sea off Newfoundland as questions mounted about its safety and why a tug vessel was sent to haul it out of the St. John’s harbour in the middle of winter. The Lyubov Orlova, which is a 237-passenger ship about 100-metres long, has been adrift since its tow line snapped in rough…
USCG unified order is handling with a crude oil leakage from a damaged barge in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The barge had earlier been damaged through collision with a bridge support while in tow, and the Mississippi River is still closed to all marine traffic for a sixteen-mile distance among mile marker 425 and mile marker…
Based on the vision of one of United States’ brilliant leader Dwight Eisenhower, the NS Savannah was a cargo ship that set many imposing standards. It was the first nuclear merchant ship to be built as a part of Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms of Peace’ platform initiated in the 1950s in an attempt to emphasis and…