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Fifty-one years ago today, 100,000 people lined the banks of the River Avon in Bristol as the SS Great Britain returned to her birthplace. In the intervening years, the rusting hulk was meticulously restored to her former glory and now rests in the drydock where she was built. As a museum ship, she is visited by between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors annually. Here is an updated repost from several years ago about the grand old ship, followed by a video about her return to Bristol in 1970.
In the spring of 2016, I visited the museum ship SS Great Britain, in Bristol, UK. When she was launched in 1843, the iron-hulled luxury passenger steamship SS Great Britain was described as “the greatest experiment since the Creation.”
An updated repost from several years ago, still fitting for the day.
Early Friday, bright orange flames boiled from the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan peninsula caused by a gas leak in an underwater pipeline. Resembling molten lava, the eruption of flames was dubbed an “eye of fire” on social media. The fire, near a Mexican state oil company Pemex drilling platform, burned for five hours before being fully extinguished.
One hundred and five years ago today, Americans learned to be afraid of sharks. An updated repost.
The salvors attempting to cut up the shipwreck of the car-carrier 
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In September 2020, we posted about the unveiling of an autonomous craft named Mayflower, after the Pilgrim’s ship of 1620. The post title posed the question, 
Commodore David Hughes, believed to be the Royal Navy’s oldest veteran, has died, just shy of his 107th birthday. An excerpt from the obituary on the 
Yesterday, more than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships shadowed the Royal Navy destroyer, 
The US Navy is having a problem with its 
