The decomissioned U.S. Navy guided missle cruiser USS Horne will be departing San Francisco for the last time tomorrow. It appears the USS Horne is headed for the bottom of the Pacific, somewhere off Hawaii, to be sunk by her very own U.S. Armed Forces as part of an exercise. More info on this fine ship and piece of history can be found at the USS Horne website.
I came across this post over at the English Russia blog providing a great glimpse inside the nuclear icebreaker LENIN. I love finding detailed photos of unique ships like this on the web, and figured I’d share this one here. For a little history on the Lenin, it was the first nuclear powered surface ship [...]
In a relatively lightly published and un-noticed event, the U.S. flagged cargo ship M/V SAGAMORE was attacked and robbed on Aug. 8th by two men with AK-47s near the al-Basrah Oil Terminal, which lies about 19 miles from the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. The SAGAMORE is operated by Sealift Inc., a privately held company [...]
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