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National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean	Aluminum 'Truck' Joint High Speed Vessel: Great Potential, But Questions Remain The Defense Department this decade will build a fleet of new high-speed aluminum ships specifically designed to shuttle hundreds of troops and tons of cargo around a theater of operations. Analysts say the joint high speed vessel would alleviate pressures on an overtaxed fleet.
Wired January 2002 Jeff Howe	The Next Wave Taller, sleeker, and much, much faster, it was the finest invention ever to issue from America's shores. Welcome to the "new economy" of the clipper ship...
Military History Quarterly August 4, 2004 John M. Taylor	Fateful Voyage of Lusitania The Cunard liner's captain expected a safe Atlantic crossing, but a German U-boat would bring Lusitania's journey to a devastating end.
National Defense March 2010 Grace V. Jean	Builders of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Pull Out All the Stops When the Navy later this year picks a winner to build its littoral combat ship, no matter which contractor is selected, the decision will be seen as a turning point for the troubled program.
CIO June 15, 2004 Todd Datz	All Hands on Tech Designing an IT system from scratch can be both daunting and thrilling. Now imagine building IT remotely for the world's newest, biggest ship. The story of how IT supports the Queen Mary 2, a veritable floating city.
National Defense January 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Fast Cargo Ships Could Halve Trans-Atlantic Trips FastShip Inc., a Philadelphia-based ship design firm, plans to build a high-speed cargo vessel that can cut trans-Atlantic travel time in half. FastShip is a partner with Lockheed Martin in the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005	Dale Gardener: The Modern Mariner As electrical superintendent of Cunard, Gardener oversees the electrical engineers on both the Queen Mary 2, the largest and most technically complex ocean liner ever built, and the Queen Elizabeth 2, the longest-serving ocean liner in Cunard's history.
Fast Company March 2000 Charles Fishman	Fantastic Voyage "Voyager of the Seas" is a big boat -- the largest cruise ship ever. And the story of its creation offers powerful lessons -- in strategic daring, relentless execution, and devotion to design.
Popular Mechanics February 1998 Jim Wilson	City at Sea Nearly a mile long and 25 stories high, Freedom will be the largest vessel ever to sail the seven seas...
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Aging Fleet As the Coast Guard looks forward to the acquisition of its new national security cutters, the job of keeping their current, aged fleet operational requires a lot of the crews' attention.
Wired February 25, 2008 Joshua Davis	High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace An attempt to prevent a ship containing 4,703 new Mazdas, estimated total worth of $103 million, from sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
Popular Mechanics June 2008 Margo Pfeiff	Tracking the Queen of the North Sea Disaster: What Went Wrong At 8 pm, the Queen of the North departed Prince Rupert, British Columbia, near the southern tip of the Alaska Panhandle, on its regularly scheduled service to Port Hardy at the northern end of Vancouver Island.
Popular Mechanics October 2008 Jeff Wise	Building the World's Biggest Ship: Behind-the-Scenes First Look How do you construct the most massive boat ever? One piece at a time. Read about the world's next generation of mega cruise liners taking shape in a Finnish shipyard.
Real Travel Adventures August 2009 May Georgina DeLory	Royal Experience Aboard Queen Mary 2 Cunard Ocean Liner Get fit, polished, pampered and delightfully oiled at the only Canyon Ranch SpaClub at sea
Vietnam August 24, 2004 G.W. Frederickson	Mined in the Mekong Delta When VC frogmen struck USS Westchester County, they inflicted the Navy's greatest single-incident combat loss of the war.
Civil War Times December 2004 Olav Thulesius	USS Monitor: The Crew Took Great Pride in Serving on the Famous Ship The crew of Swedish Inventor John Ericsson's USS Monitor took great pride in serving on the renowned 'cheese box on a raft.'
National Defense September 2010 Grace V. Jean	Duty Aboard the Littoral Combat Ship: 'Grueling but Manageable' The Navy will soon decide which version of the Littoral Combat Ship it will buy. Selecting the ship model, however, is only the beginning of what could be a long, arduous adjustment for sailors who will be serving aboard these new vessels.
Scientific American July 2008 Mark Fischetti	Cruise Ships: How They Sail Skyscrapers Around the World Large cruise ships typically host 1,800 passengers or more, plus 800 staff. Remarkably, many of these massive structures - three football fields long and 14 stories high - can deftly turn on a dime, spin 360 degrees, even mosey sideways.
Popular Mechanics July 2009	Supercarrier 2015: How to Build the World's Most Powerful Warship Ship architects in Virginia step into virtual-reality blueprints to perfect the design of the U.S. Navy's first new carrier class in 40 years.
National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean	Commercial Ferries Paving Way For Joint High Speed Vessel For insight into how a forthcoming joint high speed vessel might be employed by the Marine Corps, one can look at how leathernecks in Third Marine Expeditionary Force are operating the leased High Speed Vessel WestPac Express.
Real Travel Adventures July 2006 Larry Taylor	Passport to Seychelles: A Silversea Adventure What attracts passengers to Silversea, besides the impeccable service and luxury accommodations, is the adventurous nature of the cruise itineraries. This one highlights a trip from Egypt to the Seychelles Islands.
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots.
National Defense July 2004 Harold Kennedy	Navy Tests Coastal Warfare Systems Aboard New Catamaran A new high-speed catamaran, just leased for $21.7 million, is helping the U.S. Navy decide what technologies will be most useful in coastal warfare.
World War II August 25, 2004 William B. Allmon	USS Liscome Bay As the escort carrier Liscome Bay turned to launch its aircraft off Makin Atoll on November 24, 1943, Lt. Cmdr. Sunao Tabata of I-175 found himself presented with a target that submariners dream of.
Real Travel Adventures November 2006 Larry Taylor	Around South America:Wondrous Sights-Cultural Delights South America is full of color and liveliness, with quiet and peaceful cities scattered among it.
Popular Mechanics December 4, 2007 Joe Pappalardo	Kite Power Could Finally Pull Global Shipping to the Green Side This month, a commercial cargo ship will become the first to go into service employing a large parafoil lashed to its bow to provide a cheaper, cleaner way across the waves.
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Shipbuilder Wrings Out Savings Through Yard Improvements, Partnerships Navy officials have come down hard on shipbuilding companies to cut out the fat where they can on soaring construction costs. One U.S. shipyard is embracing the ultra-efficient business practices of South Korean builders.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Carrier Overhaul The USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the Navy's oldest nuclear aircraft carrier -- just back from the war in Iraq -- is undergoing a $200 million overhaul that will help her last at least another decade. The work is being done at the Northrop Grumman Newport News, Va., shipyard.
America's Civil War Glenn F. Williams	Uncle Sam's Webfeet Organization and training were essential to coordinate the activities of the hundreds of men who crewed a Union man-of-war.
CEO Traveler	Onboard the MS Deutschland Cruising the Mediterranean... Most passengers onboard the MS Deutschland would choose one of the teak chaises on the open decks for daydreaming....
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Sets Sail on First Deployment As the littoral combat ship USS Freedom sets out for Singapore this spring, Navy officials are hoping a smooth first deployment will finally prove the ship's worth to critics.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance.
Wired August 2000 Paul Saffo	End of the Line Welcome to Alang, India, where salvage armies use crowbars, torches, and muscle to chew up 50,000-ton ships - until not even a bolt remains.
America's Civil War November 2006 Olav Thulesius	USS Monitor: A Cheesebox on a Raft The U.S. Navy bureaucracy wanted an ironclad "rigged with two masts" for sails. John Ericsson bucked orthodoxy to create a ship that changed the world.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy Rethinks How It Maintains Surface Combatants Facing readiness problems in surface combatants, the Navy is redoubling its efforts to improve fleet maintenance.
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Susan Garland	Cruising For A Perusing Prefer learning to lounging? Try a voyage with academic appeal.
Real Travel Adventures September 2008 Taylor & Taylor	To Scenic Dominica and Beyond on Holland America's Maasdam My wife and I had decided to take the spring cruise, principally because it stopped at Dominica, an island we had never visited but had heard good things about.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Royal Caribbean Thinks Big Here's proof that today's activity-packed cruise ships keep getting bigger -- and so does their potential to command a heftier chunk of the travel-market dollar. Investors, take note.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Fleet Expansion Hinges On Littoral Combat Ship The Navy took its new warship, the littoral combat ship, from concept to reality in record speed. The service, however, may take years to define the vessel's future missions and develop its various weapon systems.
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32.
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean	Smarter Shipbuilding Could Help Ease Navy's Budget Troubles The 374-foot USS Freedom, which was delivered to the Navy last fall, was Marinette Marine Corp.'s largest and most complex ship construction project
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Margo Pfeiff	Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Monica Heger	Technology vs. Pirates Unmanned aircraft may be the best bet to fight Somalian piracy.
Wired March 2004 Christopher S. Stewart	Ripping Steel 88 decrepit mega-military vessels floats sadly in various stages of ruin moored along the James River. Removal of the ships used to be done by towing them to Bangladesh or India for disposal, allowing them to leak toxins into the environment. Disposing of them here would be better for the environment and for the perception of the US by other countries.
National Defense April 2010 Grace V. Jean	Surveillance Technology Can Help Identify Hostile Vessels A Web-based software program under development aims to make identifying hostile ships among several benign vessels easier.
National Defense August 2012 Sandra Erwin	Security Firms Divided Over How to Succeed in the Anti-Piracy Business Over the past several years, successful ship hijackings have begun to take a toll on the world's economy as Somalia-based pirates have expanded their area of influence beyond the East Coast of Africa, analysts said.
Smithsonian June 2007 Eric Jaffe	Saving Our Shipwrecks New technologies are aiding the search for one Civil War submarine, and the conservation of another.
World War II June 2005 Walter Hassell	USS Lexington: Walter Hassell Recalls the Torpedo Attack That Ended Lady Lex Unlike the flight crews, who had performed so well and valiantly, the ground crew and ship's company had been but spectators in the war. All this was to change.