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Water transport

June 2024

  • HMS Victory in Portsmouth, against a slightly cloudy sky, with tourists in shorts walking towards the gangplank

    Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle

    Insects from the famous Royal Navy flagship are helping experts plot the genome of the notorious timber pest
  • A small boat on the water can be seen next to a cargo ship near a boat terminal

    Baltimore shipping channel fully reopens after Key Bridge collapse

    Port that processes the most cars and farm equipment in US opens to original depth and width after 26 March incident
  • Jim Lawrence at the wheel of the Thames barge Memory, bound for Felixstowe in 1956. He skippered the Memory from 1954 to 1961

    Letter: Jim Lawrence obituary

    Tia and Stephen Sedley write: Even for landlubbers, it was an experience beyond description

May 2024

  • Illustration: Valerie Chiang/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war – podcast

    This week, from 2021: During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fuelled and safe – and many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had settled in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth. By Dan Hancox
  • Crews work to move the cargo ship Dali in Baltimore, Monday, May 20, 2024. The vessel on March 26 struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse and resulting in the death of six people. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse slowly moved from crash site

    Dali remained at collapse site since it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s supporting columns in March, killing six people
  • Underwater image of orca next to a boat's rudder

    Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar

    Vessel measuring 15 metres in length sank after encounter with the animals, Spain’s maritime rescue service reports

April 2024

  • Canal boat

    A broad view of canal boat licence fees

  • Jim Lawrence’s first sail loft, a converted fisherman’s store in Brightlingsea

    Jim Lawrence obituary

  • The St Ayles Skiff World Championships in Ullapool, 2013, in which crews of rowers compete in boats made to the St Ayles skiff design by Iain Oughtred.

    Iain Oughtred obituary

  • The ferry on fire with another vessel nearby

    Passengers jump into sea to escape Thai ferry fire

March 2024

  • Queues of cars in morning light at the Port of Dover

    UK Easter weather and travel: ferries hit by winds as getaway begins for millions

  • a ship is stuck under a bridge

    Baltimore bridge collapse: at least six missing as Biden laments ‘terrible accident’

  • Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses After Being Struck By Cargo Ship<br>BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - MARCH 26: A cargo ship is shown after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. Rescuers are searching for at least seven people, authorities say, while two others have been pulled from the Patapsco River. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)

    How Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapsed – a visual guide

  • The collapsed bridge in Baltimore

    Baltimore bridge collapse: what we know about the bridge, ship and port

  • Before and after Baltimore Key Bridge collapse – video

  • Cargo ship that hit Baltimore bridge was involved in Antwerp collision in 2016

  • Moment bridge collapses in Baltimore after cargo ship collision – video

  • Cross-channel ferry crews must be paid at least £9.95 an hour under French law

  • It's complicated
    How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet – video

  • Rubymar ship attacked by Houthi rebels finally sinks in Red Sea

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