Steamboat Bill
Powerships Spring 2010 | No. 273
Ann Eberle reviews the career of the Rotterdam of 1959 to coincide with her refurbishing and recent opening to the public in her former home port of Rotterdam.
Take a visit below decks to the engine spaces of today’s modern vessels and have a look at the state-of-the-art gas turbines used to power many of today’s ships. Fredrick Gary Hareland has the story.
Captain Sandy Kinghorn gets more than he bargained for as master of a chartered vessel, including….a dose of the Bermuda Triangle? Read the story from the master’s perspective.
The U.S. merchant fleet of yesteryear lives on in the collection of superb models constructed by Captain Roland Parent. He tells us how he decides which ships to build and how goes about it.
The veteran Western Rivers sternwheeler Becky Thatcher has unexpectedly reached the end of the line. Western Rivers columnist Charles Bogart has a look back at her career and her demise.