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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.   |
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
November 10, 2009 |
Oasis of the Seas Cruises Home to Ft. Lauderdale: Gallery The Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, is on schedule to come home this Friday after its maiden voyage from Turku, Finland. Here are pictures of the construction, test run and maiden voyage of the Oasis. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
World's Largest Cruise Ship Pulls 360s with Joystick Royal Caribbean is set to raise the stakes of the cruise-ship slugfest yet again with the 220,000-ton Genesis, slated to launch in 2009 from a shipyard in Finland... A comparison of the biggest boats. |
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. |
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
July 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Shipyards Speed Up Submarine Production Amid Concerns About Navy's Future Budgets Beginning next year, the Navy plans to double the production rate to two submarines per year for $2.5 billion apiece. |
Wired
June 2002
Richard Martin |
The New Supertanker Plague Blame it on super-rust, a virulent form of corrosion that has destroyed hundreds of ships and could sink the oil industry... |
Science News
May 27, 2006 |
Timeline: From the May 23, 1936, Issue Seaworthiness of New Ship Insured by Sound Planning |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Royally Grounded Don't expect smooth sailing for the rest of Royal Caribbean's year. |
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... |
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
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. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
October 7, 2010 |
IW 50 Best: Production Moves Full Speed Ahead At General Dynamics General Dynamics cuts production costs and time by retooling its manufacturing processes. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
Dan Koeppel |
World's Fastest Superliner Awaits Rebirth--or the Scrap Yard Although she has not sailed under her own power for nearly four decades, the SS United States has survived. Will the ship be restored, or scrapped? |
National Defense
June 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Shipbuilding Challenges Loom Large in the 2020s Builders of U.S. Navy ships are attempting to rein in costs that have doubled over the last 20 years. |
National Defense
July 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Navy Gradually Embracing Composite Materials in Ships The Navy claims that its next generation destroyer, the DD(X), will be the service's first major commitment to composite construction. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2005
David Needle |
SeaMobile Brings Voice, Data to the High Seas SeaMobile will enable cruise ships to offer customers access using their own notebooks and cell phones. |
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. |
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
November 11, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
4 High-Tech Surprises From the USS New York Invisible Invasions... Stealth Crane... Smart Layout... Decoys... |
Popular Mechanics
March 12, 2007
Erin McCarthy |
Ice Queens 5 high-powered icebreaker ships that rock the arctic, antarctic and an ice sheet near you |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2004
Jason Matthews |
Investing on the High Seas Can Royal Caribbean offer investors fortune and glory? |
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. |
National Defense
August 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control. |
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. |
National Defense
May 2009
Jean & Erwin |
Navy Shifts Shipbuilding Dollars to Mid-Tier Yards Most of the Navy's large warships are built at the nation's "big four" yards in Avondale, La.; Pascagoula, Miss.; Bath Iron Works, Maine; and NASSCO, Calif. |
National Defense
June 2011
Stew Magnuson |
East/West Divide Grows In the International Navy Shipbuilding Business Despite the current economic slump, the worldwide market for navy ships is expected to grow, market analysts said. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2004
Christopher Palmeri |
Carnival: Plenty Of Ports In A Storm At a time when demand and prices for cruises are rising, it pays to be the biggest ship at sea -- and the tightest. Its performance helped Carnival sail to the No.46 spot on this year's BW50 list of best-performing companies. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Should You Board This Wavy IPO? Norwegian Cruise Line files to go public. |
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. |
Fast Company
March 2000
Charles Fishman |
One Big Problem - "Save the Waves" With the cruise-ship industry's dramatic growth, the federal government made it clear that it was making an example of Royal Caribbean. |
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. |
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. |
National Defense
September 2012
Dan Parsons |
Budget Crunch Could Jeopardize New Carrier Procurement With uncertain economic waters ahead, there may be a growing reticence within the Defense Department to commit to buying future aircraft carriers, its single largest procurement item. |
National Defense
July 2010
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Cruise Ship Protection Efforts Given High Marks Cruise ships have been the targets of terrorist actions in the past, most notably the 1985 attack on the Achille Lauro, which resulted in the death of American passenger Leon Klinghoffer. |
National Defense
December 2015
Allyson Versprille |
Augmented Reality Could Help Solve Ford-Class Carrier Cost Woes Executives at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, the Huntington Ingalls division that is constructing the Navy's next-generation Ford-class supercarriers, said new technology employing digital design and construction could help reduce labor hours and lower acquisition costs for the program |
National Defense
November 2007
Breanne Wagner |
All-Electric Ship Could Begin to Take Shape By 2012 As part of an ambitious technology plan for the Navy fleet of the future, the Office of Naval Research is exploring ways to power all-electric ships. |
National Defense
August 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Low Inventory, Low Readiness Plague Amphibious Ship Fleet Amphibious ships are among the most highly demanded vessels in the Navy's fleet, according to Expeditionary Force 21, the Marine Corps plan for its future force. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2005
Nathan Slaughter |
Royal Caribbean Is Looking Seaworthy No. 2 cruise operator sails past second-quarter earnings estimates. |
National Defense
November 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats. |
National Defense
April 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Needs to Consider 'Ownership' Costs, Yard Official Says For every dollar the Navy spends on buying a new ship, it pays an average of two dollars to operate and maintain the vessel throughout its 35-year service life. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Kyunghee Park |
A Trade Rebound Launches Bigger Boats As Asian trade swells, demand for large container ships booms. |
