• Japanese film tycoon Haruki Kadokawa built a full-size replica of Columbus' flagship Santa Maria which sailed from Barcelona to Japan?

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• Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
• sailors use a tool called a needlegun (pictured) to remove old paint and corrosion aboard ships?
• Praise of the Two Lands is the first ship mentioned by name in a written record?
• American Dumbo rescue flights (aircraft pictured) worked with submarines and surface boats to help save downed airmen in the Pacific War?
• a bulbous bow can increase a ship's fuel efficiency by as much as 15%?
• the 1904 Scottish yacht Medea and the battleship USS Texas are the only surviving vessels that fought in both world wars?
• the events in the novel The Dig take place during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, England?
• there is a 15,000 ton ship which operates completely out of the water?