Navy Surveillance Ship to Be Converted
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A Navy surveillance ship that once listened for enemy submarines and hunted for drug traffickers was turned over to scientists Monday to begin a new mission of exploring the world's deepest oceans.
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A new network of sensors will detail how ecological threats to the waterway affect the seacoast.
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A Coast Guard reconnaissance team is heading to the far north this week to scope out a final frontier that is opening up to ship traffic in a warming Arctic climate.
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Australia is to send a patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet off Antarctica.
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A Navy program to build a new combat ship to patrol coastal waters will face another cost increase, government officials acknowledged yesterday, a hit to the service's attempt to keep expenses under control so it can afford a larger fleet.
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OWNERS of the schooner Penelope, Michael and Jeannette Clarke have arranged a part exchange for another vessel which at the moment is being sailed to the Falklands from Germany.
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic
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Australia is to send an armed patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet.
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CHENNAI, India  - An Indian Navy ship equipped with a radiation-monitoring laboratory will keep watch on the American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz when it comes calling at the southern port of Chennai on Monday.
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The BBC's Timewatch programme sets out to cross the North Sea with a reconstructed Viking ship.
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Cpl. Sean Foley looks around the ship's main armory and takes a quick inventory. The room is overflowing with guns. Pistols, sniper rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers.
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The U.S. Navy's oldest ship in full active service embarks on its last major maneuvers
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Major shipping ports on the West Coast, such as Seattle and Long Beach, California, will be the first targets of a new import surveillance program detailed on Monday by the top U.S. product safety regulator.
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Australia will buy a fleet of 27 high-speed naval boats for counter-terror operations, particularly around Sydney Harbour, and to combat drug and gun smuggling in New South Wales state, officials said on Sunday.
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A controversial prison ship could soon be heading for the Thames, Scotland Yard has confirmed.
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Defense Dept. to buy second supercomputer for Naval Oceanographic Office.
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It looks like a Jet Ski, but it's really a remote-controlled aquatic drone for harbor security and battlefield recon. And it's fast.