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Hijacked Bangladeshi ship crew unhurt in Somalia.

Indian warship collision caught on camera.

Pirates seize Maltese carrier with Iranian, Indian crew: EU.

Somali pirates hijack ship with 23 crew members.

NATO says Danish warship rescues 2 from pirates.

Royal Navy frees Yemeni fishermen from pirates.

Diary of SKorean held by Somali pirates revealed.

Harbouring a world-class industry.

Pirates seize ship, use it to launch new attack.

Italian vessel hijacked by pirates off Somali coast.

Activists prepare new Gaza flotilla.

Yacht carrying 1.1 tons of cocaine seized.

Wreck of Cemfjord cargo ship found.

Wreck of Cemfjord cargo ship found.

The largest vessel the world has ever seen.

The largest vessel the world has ever seen.

Daewoo Shipbuilding receives orders for three 18,000-19,000 TEU ships.

While pirate attacks on the world's seas have fallen for the third consecutive year, small tanker hijacks by armed gangs are escalating in Southeast Asia, reveals the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in its latest piracy report.

- University of Sheffield experts use machine learning to predict seasonal iceberg numbers for the first time - Low number of icebergs forecast to reach north-west Atlantic shipping regions in 2020 - figure less than half that recorded last year - International Ice Patrol will use new forecast to inform resource use for producing weekly iceberg forecasts for shipping industry

Three Rescued from Sinking Yacht off Portsmouth.

Dutch Salvage Firm to Refloat Grounded Tanker off India.

The Kyrenia Ship, found off the north coast of Cyprus, is a key vessel in the history of scientific underwater excavations and in the history of Greek shipbuilding. The first volume of the site's final publication appeared in 2023 and provides detailed archaeological information tightly constraining the dating of the ship. A very specific date range is proposed: ca. 294-290 BCE, but is based on a less than certain reading of one coin recovered from the ship. While there is clear benefit to finding high-precision dates for the Kyrenia Ship and its rich assemblage using independent scientific dating (combined with Bayesian chronological modeling), efforts to do so proved more challenging and complex than initially anticipated. Strikingly, extensive radiocarbon dating on both wooden materials from the ship and on short-lived contents from the final use of the ship fail to offer dates using the IntCal20 calibration curve-the current Northern Hemisphere radiocarbon calibration curve at the time of writing-that correspond with the archaeological constraints. The issue rests with a segment of IntCal20 ca. 350-250 BCE reliant on legacy pre-AMS radiocarbon data. We therefore measured new known-age tree-ring samples 350-250 BCE, and, integrating another series of new known-age tree-ring data, we obtained a redefined and more accurate calibration record for the period 433-250 BCE. These new data permit a satisfactory dating solution for the ship and may even indicate a date that is a (very) few years more recent than current estimations. These new data in addition confirm and only very slightly modify the dating recently published for the Mazotos ship, another Greek merchant ship from the southern coast of Cyprus. Our work further investigated whether ship wood samples impregnated with a common preservative, polyethylene glycol (PEG), can be cleaned successfully, including a known-age test.