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8th LONDON MARITIME CHARITY BALL
Details for this year's event - on Friday 13th July - have now been finalised and the booking form is above. For yet another year, the price has been held at £80 per ticket and places are limited to 100 in total, so please book early.
MSc scholarship at Newcastle University
Above is a flier regarding a scholarship for the Marine Transport MSc at Newcastle University which maybe of interest to members. The programme is open to Master Mariners looking to move into the insurance sector and further details can be found at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/marine/postgrad/funding/nepia.htm
2012 Diary Bookmark
The Diary bookmark for 2012 has just been finalised and a copy can be found above.
HMNZS WELLINGTON IN THE ICE
oow notebook article _ 23 feb 11 _3_.pdf
The Commanding Officer of the New Zealand Navy's HMNZS Wellington has recently sent us a couple of articles about the vessel's deployment in Antarctica, one of which can be viewed here; the other below.
ShipTalk News
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USS Collision
A collision has been reported between the assault ship “USS Essex” and the oil tanker “USNS Yukon”. The accident occurred about 120 miles off Southern California during a refueling exercise,...
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Drunken Sailor
The captain of a cargo ship which hit west Cornwall sounded “increasingly intoxicated” before falling asleep on the bridge, a report says. The 9,000-tonne German-owned container ship Karin Schepers ran...
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Kicking Off
The 90th session of the International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee, is under way in London. The big topic is piracy, not just off the coast of Somalia — where...
