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Never Forget
April 09 , 2008
Never Forget
USS NEW YORK
The Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS New York has already made history. It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the
World
Trade
Center .
USS New York was launched earlier this year. Katrina disrupted construction when it pounded the
Gulf
Coast last summer, but the 684-foot vessel escaped serious damage, and workers were back at the yard near
New Orleans two weeks after the storm. The storm destroyed many of the ship builders home. They stayed. The memory of 9/11 and the sentiment behind this particular ship was enough to keep them in the shipyard.
It is the fifth in a new class of warship – designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.
Steel from the
World
Trade
Center was melted down in a foundry in
Amite, LA to cast the ship’s bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept. 9, 2003, “those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,” recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. “It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.”
Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the tradecenter steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the “hair on my neck stood up.” “It had a big meaning to it for all of us,” he said. “They knocked us down. They can’t keep us down. We’re going to be back.”
The ship’s motto? – ‘Never Forget’
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Yacht Pirated
April 07 , 2008
Pirates on the High Seas
When you think of Pirates- visions of Blackbeard and Long John Silver may come to mind, but for the luxury yacht Le Ponant, sea tales have become reality.
The French luxury yacht was off
Africa 's eastern coast with 30 crewmembers on board, the French foreign minister said Sunday. The Ponant was seized on Friday by Pirates. In the crew, 22 are French, and most of the others are Ukrainian or Korean. The crew includes six women.
A handout photo from the French maritime transport company CMA-CGM shows the luxury yacht Le Ponant.
The Pirates who hijacked a luxury French yacht off last week have opened fire at local gunmen who stopped them from coming ashore in the chaotic Horn of Africa.
The group of roughly 10 members of the GIGN, a police force trained to deal with hijackings and hostage situations, was due to arrive in neighboring on Monday.
Abdirahman Mohamed Bangah, information minister for the semiautonomous northern region of Puntland, said he hoped international forces will "rescue this ship" at Eyl, confirming its location. The U.S. Navy has led international patrols to try to combat piracy in the region. But an increase in naval patrols has coincided with a rash of kidnappings of foreigners on land.
's prime minister said Saturday that he hoped to avoid force in freeing the crew but that no options had been ruled out.
Stay safe out on the High Seas. Keep a sharp lookout and pay attention, harm can come in all shapes and sizes.
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325 feet Wally Island
April 02 , 2008
Island
Paradise
on the High Seas…
Monaco-based Wally Yachts continues to develop innovative concepts and minimalist luxury at a rate exceeding any other marine design house on the planet. Their newest endeavor? WallyIsland – which at 325 feet is the "gigayacht" that dwarfs the vast majority of luxury megayachts and reinvents the yacht as a floating personal island.
Yacht Wally Island
For most of us commoners, a 180-foot personal superyacht would be enough to establish ourselves as a seriously wealthy owner – but over the last ten years, in the never ending spirit of excess, the megayacht emerged, at over 220 feet long. And when the ostentatious mega-rich start competing, enormous isn't nearly big enough. Over the last ten years, several yachts have been built over the 320-foot mark.
WallyIsland looks more like a tanker than its gigayacht counterparts, due to the huge main deck area and the fact that is has only three upper-level decks rather than the multilevel arrangements typical on others. It's designed this way to increase open entertaining space and allow large garden spaces, and this sort of design also keeps the cost of the yacht "competitive”.
The WallyIsland's main deck can include a large, deep swimming pool, garden spaces, tennis or mini soccer grounds, as well as the requisite helipads. It includes sleeping quarters for up to 40 crew and 24 guests as well as the extravagant owner's suites. The aft deck holds two 45-foot WallyPower tender yachts, as well as space for several other yachts and water toys on board. Just in case you think you’ll get bored!
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