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The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore occurred following a collision with a container ship around 1:35 a.m. ET. Jay Fleming Photography Ⓒ

Ship allision causes Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore

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The cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam was at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas when two crewmen died in an engine room explosion March 22. Johnthan Palombo/Wikimedia Commons photo.

Two Holland America crew die in engine room explosion

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The 438′ x 105′ x 25′ deck cargo barge Makani Loa was launched March 7, 2024 at Gunderson Marine & Iron in Portland, Ore. Gunderson Marine & Iron video image.

Gunderson Marine & Iron launches deck cargo barge for Aloha Marine Lines

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Reliance-class medium endurance cutter Dependable returns to Virginia Beach. U.S. Coast Guard photo

Coast Guard cutter returns home after 59 days of illegal migrant interdiction

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The Healy, the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest polar icebreaker. U.S. Coast Guard photo

US, Canada sign MOU for icebreaking, maintaining aids to navigation

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A dead 1-year-old female right whale was towed to Tybee Island, Ga., for necropsy that found blunt force trauma including fractures of the skull, consistent with a vessel strike. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission photo/NOAA permit 24359.

Right whale died in vessel strike off Georgia, NOAA says

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The expeditionary fast transport ship Brunswick. Naval Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua Fulton photo

EPF Brunswick returns to US after seven years abroad

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Seabulk Towing’s 98'6"x43'6"x15'7" Rotortug Trident delivered in 2017. Rick Groen photo

Top 10 2023 News Story: Workboat industry deals

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Flames leap from cars on the ro/ro container ship Grande Costa d’Avorio at Port Newark, N.J. Elizabeth Fire Department aerial drone image.

Newark ship fire hearing concludes; investigation continues

Kirk Moore

Port NOLA photo

New Orleans port awarded $74 million grant for Louisiana International Terminal

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Newark Fire Department Capt. Oswald Robetto testifies Jan. 16 at a Coast Guard hearing into the Grande Costa d’Avorio ship fire at Port Newark, N.J., July 5, 2023. Coast Guard video image.

Firefighters separated trying to escape New Jersey ship inferno

Kirk Moore

The Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Evergreen Marine Corporation, in partnership with multiple state and local responders, refloat the Ever Forward Sunday, April 17, in the Chesapeake Bay. George Mason University photo.

Maryland to plant oysters as mitigation for 2022 ship grounding

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Benito LaFauci, chief officer of the ship Grande Costa d’Avorio, testifies to a Coast Guard investigation board about the July 5, 2023 fire on the ship that killed two city firefighters in Newark, N.J. Coast Guard video image.

Emotional testimony as ship’s chief recalls firefighter deaths

Kirk Moore