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Viking ships to stay berthed at Bygdoy

Viking ships to stay berthed at Bygdoy
4th May 2012 Norways famed Viking ships won’t be moved to a new museum that some historians and city officials have been promoting for years.
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Nigerias graveyard of ships

Nigerias graveyard of ships
2nd May 2012 The Coast line near to Lagos is quickly becoming the dumpimg ground for old vessels.
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Titanic II, a replica of famed ship  to be built by Australian billionaire

Titanic II, a replica of famed ship to be built by Australian billionaire
1st May 2012 Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer plans to build a 21st-century replica of the Titanic and sail it from England to New York accompanied by the Chinese navy by the end of 2016
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Titanic photographs that still haunt 100 years after disaster

Titanic photographs that still haunt 100 years after disaster
14 April 2012 When the news reached Europe and North America — that the mammoth unsinkable ship was had indeed sunk — the headlines in newspaper were big too. Seven hundred and ten people survived and 1,517 died.
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Ship leaves NYC to visit Titanic graves in Canada

Ship leaves NYC to visit Titanic graves in Canada
11 April 2012 Passengers dressed in fur coats and wide brimmed hats strolled the decks of a memorial ship as it began its journey to Canada to visit the spot where the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean a century ago
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Cruise ship to retrace voyage of Titanic

Cruise ship to retrace voyage of Titanic
9 April 2012 A cruise carrying relatives of some of the more than 1500 people who died aboard the Titanic nearly 100 years ago set sail from England on Sunday to retrace the ships voyage including a visit to the location where it sank
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Titanic captains steward  feared doomed ship was cursed after near miss at port

Titanic captains steward feared doomed ship was cursed after near miss at port
30 march 2012 A Titanic-headed letter by the captain's personal steward in which he mentioned about his apprehensions that the ill-fated liner was cursed with bad luck is up for auction.
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Tall ship Mary Day celebrates 50th birthday

Tall ship Mary Day celebrates 50th birthday
29th March 2012 The schooner Mary Day will have its 50th birthday this year
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THE EMERALD Mounting A New Career

THE EMERALD Mounting A New Career
In an extremely rare bit of good news on the classic steamship front a report has surfaced that ALAS International Holdings has announced its purchase of the 1958 built SS THE EMERALD
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Concerns over future of historic City of Adelaide ship

Concerns over future of historic City of Adelaide ship
22 Mar 2012 Heritage campaigners have called for an urgent rethink of plans to move the world's oldest surviving clipper to Australia
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