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MV Joyita was a 69-foot (21.0 m) wooden ship built in 1931 as a luxury yacht by the Wilmington Boat Works in Los Angeles for movie director Roland West, who named the ship for his wife, actress Jewel Carmen — joyita in Spanish meaning "little jewel". [1]
424. RMS Campania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, 8 September 1892. Identical in dimensions and specifications to her sister ship RMS Lucania, Campania was the largest and fastest passenger liner afloat when she entered ...
This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
The ship was built in 2017 and is flagged in Singapore. [1]In 2023 whilst chartered by Cargill, Pyxis Ocean was retrofitted with two 37.5 m (123 ft) tall 'WindWing' sails, a technology developed by the UK company BAR Technologies, [2] manufactured by Yara Marine Technologies [3] [4] and added at a COSCO shipyard in Shanghai, China. [5]
A cargo vessel used for trade between Eastern India and Indochina. Brig. A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Brigantine. A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the main. Caravel. (Portuguese) A much smaller, two, sometimes three-masted ship. Carrack.
Quarterdeck: (a) The part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. Usually reserved for ship's officers, guests, and passengers. (b) ( naval) The shipboard area, connected by a gangplank to a dock or another ship, where personnel arrive and depart a naval vessel in port.
SS. Oriana. (1959) Converted into a hotel ship in 1986. Service ended after ship sank at her berth after a storm in 2004 and was scrapped post refloating. SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company 's ocean liners. She was built at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and launched on 3 November 1959 by ...
Aviation facilities. Helicopter deck, max. helicopter weight 12.8 tonnes. RV Falkor (too) is an oceanographic research vessel refitted in 2021–2022 from the former multi-role offshore support vessel MS Polar Queen. The ship was purchased by the Schmidt Ocean Institute in March 2021. It replaced the RV Falkor .