Gray Line Sightseer passing through U. S. Government Locks, second largest locks in the world. The locks make it possible for large ships to come into the he…
( Kah- lock-ah-lah, Chinook for Flying Bird) is the world's first completely Streamlined Motor Ferry. The hull is divided into twenty-five water-tight co…
Ready for launching, the America nestled in her cradle of timbers and steel thicky spread with 46,000 lb. of stearine, tallow and grease. On the morning of Au…
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Year is 1968. Kent Markham, a math teacher at John Gorrie Junior High School in Jacksonville, Florida, designed and built a one man submarine. He calls it a se…
In her first sea trial, the SRN-4, largest hovercraft in the world , skimmed over the waves at 60 knots. Twenty-eight passengers were on board for the trials…
Probably the largest ship model ever built has been sent to this country from The Netherlands for display at boat shows. The model is 40 feet long and weighs 1…
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Crowded docks in biggest sailing week of year are filled (from front) by Independence, America, United States, New York, Liberte, Queen Mary, Mauretania. ___…
FIREPROOF and unsinkable, the new hospital ship of the St. John's Guild, New York City, represents the maximum in safety for passengers afloat. The ship …
Nosing the Norwegian freighter Norbryn to. ward a Quebec dock, the pilot prepared for a routine landing. But instead of stopping, the Norbryn, fighting stron…
Enormours marina called Dinner Key stretches its docks like spread fingers into Florida's Biscayne Bay. It can handle 166 boats. In center of little penins…
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In 1937, the Matson line, a shipping company that still exists today, offered fantastic cruises to Hawaii, and also to New Zeeland and Australia via Samoa an…
Night was falling as the British liner Athenia, Montreal bound, plowed steadily westward across the North Atlantic. Just nine hours before, Great Britain had…
Launched in Saint Louis, this excursion steamer, is an example of the late1930s-early 1940s trend of streamlining. Claimed by its owners to be the largest rive…