The longer the ship, the more stress it endures when crossing the crests and troughs of oceanic waves, which causes sagging in heavy seas. The wood buckles and bends when this happens, allowing ...

Every year it seems a new world's largest cruise ship is crowned. Royal Caribbean's upcoming almost 10,000-person Icon of the Seas will be the ... mega-ships are too big to fit into some ports ...

Several European steam-ships reached this port yesterday after ... and touched at Larne on the 22d. Heavy gales from the south-west and northwest prevailed during the whole passage.