Photo: Will Van Dorp
The Space Shuttle Enterprise was built as a prototype. As such it never flew in space. That is not to say, however, that it hasn’t traveled. In April, we caught it on video taking a ride on a NASA 747 up the Hudson River to land in Kennedy Airport on its way to a permanent home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Yesterday, it took a short sea voyage by barge, out past Coney Island, up through the Verrazano Narrows Bridge before finally docking at Port Elizabeth, N.J. It will stay in Jersey until Tuesday. The shuttle goes on permanent display on July 19th. For more photos, check out Will van Dorp’s tugster blog. Video of the move after the jump.
Seas of Peace
For only 105 million Norwegian krona (thats € 14 million or roughly US$17.5 million) you too can own an Arctic submarine base. Norway’s
The ten boat fleet of the 
This seems like a suitable post for a Monday morning. The tide was high, the bridge was low and the ship was light. Captain Guo Lai, 48, was in command of the brand new luxury cruise liner, Pearl No 7, on her maiden voyage from the shipyard, when they passed under a suspension bridge on the Oujiang River near Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China. Or at least most of the ship made it under. The ship’s two funnels were sheared off when the clearance between the ship and the bridge turned out to be negative. The Pearl No. 7 has the capacity for 1,000 passengers and cost $44 million to build. She has now returned to the shipyard, Wenzhou Mingzhu Yacht Co., Ltd., for funnel repairs.
The old cliche that a boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money applies far too well to tall ships. They are expensive to build or restore and chronically costly to maintain and keep running. It should come as no surprise that most of the ships in the recent 
On October 5, 2011, the containership 