Shanghai: The Port of the World
Shanghai, the busiest port the world has ever seen, may also be the oldest in existence. The tiny fishing village sprouted out of the marshy
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The HMHS Britannic – Greatness Without Glamour
The tragic demise of the RMS Titanic still haunts the world more than a century later, while after decades of faithful service, the RMS Olympic
The SS Imperator: A Grand Hotel on the Ocean
A new ocean liner joined the Hamburg-America Line on 23 May 1912: the mighty SS Imperator. First interesting fact: she was a he. By order of Kaiser Wilhelm
The SS Normandie – A True Monarch of the Seas
Names, such as White Star’s Olympic and Cunard’s Mauretania were the stuff of legends in their heyday, but when the roaring 20’s were uttering their final roars, times called
A Long History of Shipyards – The Great Industrial Revolutions Before the Industrial Revolution
Since the name of my blog is The Shipyard, I thought it only appropriate for my first post to dwell a bit on the topic of