The Daily Scandinavian reported that last March the world’s largest all-electric ferry went into full operation on the 5.67 nautical mile route between the two Norwegian cities of Moss and Horten, on Norway’s busiest ferry route.
The new ferry, named Bastø Electric, built at Sefine Shipyard in Turkey, is the first of three battery-powered ferries intended to operate on a route across the Oslo Fjord. Bastø Electric measures 139.2 meters in length and is 21 meters wide. Top speed is 13 knots (24 km/h). The Bastø Electric can carry either 200 cars or 24 trucks, as well as 600 passengers.
The 
The worst way to determine the position of a previously uncharted seamount is to run into it underwater. That is apparently what happened to the 
“Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James?” (If you do, it may be from the 
Thousands of dead crabs, lobsters, and fish washed up recently along Teesside beaches on the UK’s North East coast. Waist deep piles of seaweed and dead and dying crustaceans and fish have been reported. Variously described as the “worst case ever seen” and “
On Halloween, Sunday, October 31, at 2:30 Pacific Time (5:30 Eastern TIme), 
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In one of the stranger maritime stories of late, the 
One of the traditions of US icebreakers operating in the Arctic is “ice liberty.” When an icebreaker encounters a thick ice floe, the crew is allowed liberty to get off the vessel to walk about or play games from touch football to hockey. 
In 1960, the archaeological remains of Norse buildings were discovered at 
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While under tow in the Guayas River, near Guayaquil, Ecuador, the 250′ long Brazilian sail training ship 
In early October, a crack in a pipeline off the coast of Huntington Beach, California spilled some 3,000 barrels (126,000 gallons) of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean. On Saturday, the