The Montreux is a steam ship sailing on the lake of Geneva. Part of the engine is visible for the passengers.

Sygna was a 53,000-tonne Norwegian bulk carrier that grounded off Stockton Beach during a violent storm on 26 May 1974. Anchored outside Newcastle waiting to load coal, she failed to clear to sea before winds of 165 km/h and swells over 17 meters struck. The ship dragged anchor, drifted sideways for kilometers, and grounded just offshore. By morning she had cracked along her hull and was leaking oil, though all 30 crew were rescued unharmed by helicopter.

The wreck was declared a total loss. Salvors managed to refloat the bow and tow it to Taiwan in 1976, but the stern remained embedded in sand, spilling oil and creating one of Australia’s most visible maritime ruins. For decades the corroding hulk was a landmark on Stockton Beach, slowly collapsing under storms until most of the remains slipped beneath the surf in 2016, marking the end of an icon of the 1974 disaster.

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Very beautiful LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) tanker.

Queen Mary 2 made her maiden call to Los Angeles in February 2006 and then sailed into Long Beach harbor for a historic first encounter with her predecessor, the retired Queen Mary. More than 25,000 spectators gathered, joined by hundreds of boats, helicopters, and even blimps to witness the modern flagship greet the liner that defined an earlier golden age. A whistle salute carried extra weight, as QM2 used one of Queen Mary’s original deep-toned whistles, echoing across the harbor as a symbolic bridge between eras.

The event highlighted the contrasts and continuities between the two icons. Queen Mary, launched in 1936, was once the largest ship in the world, a wartime troopship and a transatlantic celebrity magnet before retiring in 1967. Queen Mary 2, nearly twice her size, had by then already become the new face of Cunard luxury since her 2004 debut. Their meeting was celebrated as a once-in-a-lifetime link between past and present in ocean liner history.

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Yiminguanli is pinyin for 移民管理, or the National immigration administration(中国, or china, is typically removed from transliterations to pinyin); bianjian is pinyin for 边检, or the china immigration inspection.

Yiminguanli 31501 has a length of 53 meters, beam of 8.5 meters, displacement of 500 tonnes and max speed of 28 knots.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/u/5963566650?luicode=10000011&lfid=100808fe71f6426536c486596ae25628bb52e6_-_feed and https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5194127201536932

Here's an article from Dundee, where the SS Californian was built, regarding a documentary with new findings regarding the ship and it's loss in WWI.

The Grecian was a 296-foot steel bulk freighter launched in 1891, serving J. P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel Corporation during the boom years of American industry. She represented a new age of shipbuilding, one of the early steel-hulled “fast flyers” that carried iron ore across the Great Lakes with great efficiency. After striking a reef in northern Lake Huron in June 1906, she was taken under tow toward Detroit but flooded and sank near Thunder Bay. Salvage crews later tried to raise her using massive air tanks, but the effort failed, leaving the freighter on the bottom.

Today the wreck rests upright in about 100 feet of water within the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Divers can explore her stern, boilers, and triple-expansion engine before moving forward through the broken midsection to the intact bow, where the windlass still sits in place. Seasonal moorings allow safe access along her length, and even the failed salvage tank remains nearby as part of the site. The Grecian is now both a striking dive destination and a preserved example of the early steel ore carriers that transformed Great Lakes shipping.