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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.
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.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Navy Surface Fleet Faces Rough Waters Trying to Maintain Ships The service is trying to revamp its maintenance policies to include more inspections, new technology and a shift in culture. They will likely have to deal with budget cuts that make it more difficult to maintain ships, Navy and industry officials said.
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.
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.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2004 Bob Hirschfeld	The Big Haul Over the past year, tanker shares rose 110 percent, versus 14 percent for the S&P. That doubling in industry cap makes tanker stock fine currency for acquisitions and concentrates more capacity into fewer hands.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Rich Duprey	Top Tankers Pumps Up Dividend The oil carrier sells off a portion of its fleet, only to lease it back and use the proceeds to reward shareholders. But should demand for oil in China fall off, investors could get a sinking feeling, special dividends or not.
BusinessWeek May 12, 2011 Robert Young Pelton	Somali Pirates' Rich Returns Imagine if you could invest $100,000 to control a $200 million asset for three months and sell it back to the owners for $10 million - tax-free. That's the Somali pirate way.
Geotimes April 2003 Christina Reed	Black Tide When the oil from the tanker Prestige began washing up along Spain's northwestern coast last November, it wasn't the kind that leaves a slippery, thin sheen on everything it touches. This was heavy, refined oil. It's a huge problem.
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
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.
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Getting to the Source of the Puget Sound Oil Spill Workers mobilized by the Washington Department of Ecology cleaned up beaches in the Dalco Passage of Puget Sound, after an oil spill on Oct. 14. The source of the spill remains unknown.
Salon.com January 24, 2001 Dawn MacKeen	Disaster in the Galapagos It may take years to measure the ecological destruction caused by the oil spill near Darwin's outdoor laboratory...
National Defense May 2014 Dan Parsons	A Fresh Coat of Paint Can Save Navy Billions Spending their operational lives in or near the ocean, Navy ships and Marine Corps vehicles are especially susceptible to the corrosive effects of salt water.
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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.
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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.
National Defense April 2010 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Energy Reform Initiatives Raise Concerns Among Shipbuilders The secretary of the Navy's announcement last fall of several initiatives to wean the sea service off fossil fuels has generated excitement but also some trepidation among energy researchers and defense contractors.
World War II Donald J. Young	West Coast War Zone For a week in December 1941, Japanese submarines prowled the U.S. Pacific coastline, searching for merchant ships to sink.
Science News May 27, 2006	Timeline: From the May 23, 1936, Issue Seaworthiness of New Ship Insured by Sound Planning
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
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BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Alkman Granitsas	Shipping That's Not All In The Family In Greece, a new generation of tycoons is bringing transparency to the shipping industry.
HBS Working Knowledge October 21, 2013 Kim Girard	Missing the Wave in Ship Transport Despite a repeating boom-bust cycle in the shipping industry, owners seem to make the same investment mistakes over time. Can other cyclical industries learn the lessons of the high seas?
The Motley Fool May 9, 2005 Rich Duprey	A Slick Quarter for Overseas Shipholding Leading tanker company reports record revenues and profits. At almost $58 a share, Overseas Shipholding is not particularly cheap right now, and it sits only 13% off its 52-week highs.
Chemistry World March 21, 2014	Preserving the Mary Rose The Tudor battleship has been stabilized and is now on display in a new museum. Jon Evans explores the chemistry stopping those timbers shivering
National Defense May 2008 Grace Jean	New Ships are Breaking The Bank So the Navy is Fixing its Old Ones The ballooning costs of new ships are forcing the Navy to extend the service life of dozens of surface combatants that typically would have been decommissioned.
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 David Lerman	The High Cost of Waging War on Rust The Pentagon is enlisting defense contractors in the battle against corrosion and is helping fund specialized training for engineers.
National Defense March 2009 Frodl & Manoyan	Hijacked Super Tanker Exposes Vulnerability of Energy Supplies The hijacking on the high seas by Somali pirates of a super tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil destined for the United States created many troubling precedents and makes the vulnerability of energy supplies quite clear.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Frontline Sails On The tanker operator offers prodigious dividends despite tough shipping rates. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek April 4, 2005 Gene G. Marcial	Smooth Sailing For Maritrans' Tankers And Tugs U.S. marine carrier Maritrans will benefit from the Jones Acts and other recent mandates.
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.
BusinessWeek December 9, 2010 Kyunghee Park	A Trade Rebound Launches Bigger Boats As Asian trade swells, demand for large container ships booms.
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 June 2013 Stew Magnuson	Sticker Shock: $1 Billion for New Icebreaker The cost to build one new polar icebreaker for the Coast Guard may top $1 billion, a Congressional Research Service report recently stated.
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.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Shirley S. Savage	Creating a Better Oil Pipeline Smarter pipeline technology can catch catastrophes before they happen.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2011 Shubh Datta	Another Shipper Declines on Lower Rates Ship Finance's profits sink 21% on account of lower spot rates.
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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.
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.
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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.