The Warship That Couldn’t Stay Afloat
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2019
During the American Civil War, the Union Navy designed a class of warships called “Casco” that could submerge its hull at will to make the b...
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The Cranes of River Clyde
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
A giant cantilever crane looms over a car park adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn at Glasgow City. During its heydays, this crane used to lo...
RMS Tayleur: The Other Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2019
The sinking of the Titanic is one of the best remembered maritime disasters in history. A grand luxury ship touted as the safest vessel aflo...
SS Warrimoo: The Ship That Missed New Year’s Eve But Gained Two Centuries
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2019
The story that follows supposedly happened more than a hundred years ago on the eve of New Year. It spanned two centuries, yet was over in a...
Thailand’s Aircraft-Less Aircraft Carrier
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2018
The aircraft carrier is the ultimate symbol of military strength. Enormously large and with a full fleet of combat aircrafts on its deck, th...
How War Marooned 15 Ships in The Suez Canal For Eight Years
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2018
The Arabs and the Jews have never got along. Since the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century, the two gro...
The Landlocked Navy of Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2018
Many landlocked countries with no access to the open ocean maintain navies, which might seem odd at first. But once you realize that aside f...
Diolkos: An Ancient Trackway That Carried Ships Over Land
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2018
In ancient times, Greek merchants sailed all around the Mediterranean Sea carrying goods from Spain to Phoenicia and from Carthage to Egypt ...
The Historic Dutch Ship Batavia, And Its Blood-Curdling History
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2016
Moored at Bataviawerf, in Lelystad, in the Netherlands, is an authentic replica of a 17th-century ship named Batavia that once belonged to t...
This Wooden Barrel Was The World’s First Military Submarine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2016
The possibilities of a submersible boat that could cruise below the water’s surface undetected and ambush enemy ships has fascinated militar...
Warship Graveyard of Chuuk Lagoon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2016
Under the clear blue waters of Chuuk Atoll in the South Pacific, seven degrees north of the equator, near New Guinea, lies the wreck of a do...
Ships Made of Concrete
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2015
Perhaps the most bizarre choice of material humans ever made to make a vessel that floats was reinforced concrete. For centuries ships have ...
SAIL Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2015
SAIL Amsterdam is one of the biggest attractions in Amsterdam and the greatest nautical spectacle in the world where scores of tall ships an...
Zheng He’s Enormous Treasure Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2015
Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming era, Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who was also the court eunuch, commanded seven expeditionary voyages a...
Noorderlicht: The Ice-bound Ship Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2015
Noorderlicht, or Northern Lights in Dutch, is a two-masted schooner that spends the summer taking tourists around the Arctic region, particu...
The Titanic Museum in Branson
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2015
The Titanic Museum at Branson, Missouri, is a two story museum dedicated to the doomed ship, shaped like the RMS Titanic itself. The museum ...
Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2014
Near the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh, lies one of the largest ship-breaking yards in the world. It stretches for 18 km along the c...
The Ghost Ships of the National Defense Reserve Fleet
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2014
After the second World War, the United States established the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) – a fleet of vessels that serve as a res...
Cruise Ship On a Cliff is Actually a Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2013
Perched high above the shores on the costal cliff in Jeongdongjin, a South Korean tourist town known for having the best view of the sunrise...
Sea Launch: Launching Satellites From the Ocean
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2013
The two giant ships, a NASA-like mission control and a launch pad floating on the ocean, form part of an audacious, outrageously expensive, ...
