Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
An ocean liner built by Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico (Italian for “United Shipbuilders of the Adriatic”) for the shipping company Lloyd Triestino was launched in northeastern Italy’s comune (municipality) of Monfalcone, which is located along the Gulf of Trieste. (That gulf is the northernmost region of the Adriatic Sea.) The ocean liner was named after Guglielmo... Continue Reading →
July 6, 2012 The ship HNLMS Holland (P840) was commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN). This ship was the first one of RNLN’s Holland-class offshore patrol vessels to go into service. HNLMS Holland in fact carried out her first official mission about three-and-months before being commissioned. This unique mission involved a mirror that the... Continue Reading →
A new airline, Windward Islands Airway (Winair), began operations in Sint Maarten in the northeast Caribbean. At the time, Sint Maarten – constituting most of the southern portion of the island of Saint Martin – was one of five Dutch island territories in the region that were collectively known as the Netherlands Antilles; Sint Maarten’s... Continue Reading →
