History Channel’s Vikings
History Channel came up with the Vikings series last year and it was a success. Can’t wait for the next season. The story is told around Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking farmer and a warrior...
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Das Boot
I personally wonder what percentage of all the movies shot so far has WW2 as a topic or at least an effect to the story. And when you ask people to count 10 movies...
Delfin
Lets go fishing in Cuba with trawler “Delfin”. Delfin is the first of the 5 sister fishing ships built in 1962 by Usuki Tekkosho Shipyards in Japan. These ships were called “Delfin Class Tuna Seiners”....
Saint Charles
Steamer tugboat Saint Charles model plans. She was built in 1918 by Chantiers de la Loire shipyard for French Navy under the name “Coq” . She had other sisters and she also give her...
Ocean Rescue Tugs Bars and Jahuar
We have two Soviet ocean going rescue tugs here. The “Bars” and “Jahuar” . Yeah as you guessed, their names mean “Leopard” and “Jaguar” . The sister tugboats were built in 1978 in Leningrad....
Emma Maersk
Commercial shipping has changed a lot as the life got faster. Conventional cargo shipping left its place to container shipping. And as the world demand grew, the container ships grew… In this documentary, we...
Al Moktashef
Scale model fishing boats are quite popular in model building hobby. Generally the boats are small crafts or trawlers. Fishing boats has different characteristics according to the waters they are fishing. This time we...
Oil Tankers Documentary
This documentary will take you to a trip in oil tankers’ history. The oil tankers began to shape after usage of petrol and its products increased. But were there any of them before even...
Consul Pust
In the early days of fishing industry, the trawler Consul Pust surely was state of the art. And actually if we take a look at the equipment and the method, the design did not...
The African Queen
Another film about maritime. Two legends of the cinema, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are the ones onboard the steamboat African Queen as Charles Allnut and Rose Sayer. We see Bogart filled with gin,...
