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Wikipedia Project Articles[edit]
Hindenburg Disaster[edit]
Hindenburg Book Source CMA Library
The Hindenburg Disaster was one of the most engineering disasters known to history. A German Blimp carrying passengers, caught on fire while trying to dock its ship. It was blamed to be a compartment fire, once it clipped the dock for the blimp. (BigbrownPaddlaa (talk) 05:36, 3 February 2012 (UTC))
Book Citation- Lawson,D. (2005). Engineering disasters:lessons to be learned. New York. ASME Press. (BigbrownPaddlaa (talk) 05:36, 3 February 2012 (UTC))
Review Citation- Vaeth, J. G. (1990). What happened to the Hindenburg? (Cover story). Weatherwise, 43(6), 315.
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BIG DIG Tunnels[edit]
The Boston Big Dig tunnel design was a sign that the Engineering of Big Dig was unsuccessful. However, although Big Dig tunnels did prove flaws, there were other small, over looked aspects that proven that Big Dig tunnels were ineffective and dangerous. (BigbrownPaddlaa (talk) 18:46, 10 February 2012 (UTC))
Article Citation- Hansen, B. (2007). Investigators Fault Epoxy 'Creep' in Big Dig Collapse. Civil Engineering (08857024), 77(9), 18-21.
Periodical Citation- Wood, D. C. (2001). Learning From the Big Dig. Public Roads, 65(1), 30.
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Disney Cruise Lines[edit]
Disney Cruise lines has been the most talked Cruise line the Untied States. By having The Walt Disney enterprise expand to cruise ships, Disney revenue has doubled from tourist and passengers. According to selected articles, Disney profits has boomed ever since tourist began their journey with Disney's new cruise line. Recently according to sources, Disney has added another ship to its fleet of Disney ships. The "Dream" according to sources is their new addition to Disney providing, new routes like Alaska, and Europe for more variety for families. With this movement on to expansion, the new Disney Dream will carry 1,300 more passengers than their previous ships (Dream and Wonder). However, Disney is projected not to stop at only having 3 ships in their fleet. They are still continuing to build another ship that will serve on Disney's new ports of call. (BigbrownPaddlaa (talk) 23:50, 22 April 2012 (UTC))(BigbrownPaddlaa (talk) 19:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC))
Newspaper Citation- Disney cruise line welcomes newest ship during christening celebration filled with dreams. (2011, Jan 19). PR Newswire, pp. n/a. http://search.proquest.com/docview/843448925?accountid=10353
Newspaper Citation- FitzGerald, D. (2012, Feb 07). Disney profit rises 12%. Wall Street Journal (Online), pp. n/a-n/a. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/920132514?accountid=10353
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Newspaper Citation- Jackovics, T. (2009, Aug 26). BRIEF: Disney plans 2 new cruise ships, expanded european itineraries. McClatchy - Tribune Business News, pp. n/a. http://search.proquest.com/docview/457659128?accountid=10353
Wikipeidia Article- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Cruise_Line
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Ship Naming[edit]
RA 4: Ship_naming
- Ship naming article on Wikipedia has sections of history, christening, and ship launching. In maritime history, naming vessels is a tradition before a ship is launched. Yet the article focuses only on the tradition of ceremonial naming and tradition. The Wikipedia article also has evidence of different people honoring these ships, for example. Many of female office holders or officials in the United States government, have been given the offer of christening new ships as they are named and sent to the water. Majority of the evidence presented in this Wikipedia article has been valid when it comes to who, and when these new christening ships have been sent off. When comparing this Wikipedia article to an Oxford Encyclopedia found in my schools library, their sources on origination and history are pretty valid. The only addition to the Wikipedia article is the mention of different kinds of people, whom christening these ships. Overall, these two articles seem to have only some of the sections to be similar to each other. However, there are still some issues with the reliability of the sources used in this article.
- Although, the Ship Naming Wikipedia article presents key information like history, and different styles of Christening, and it still lacks the reliability of its sources. The article however, only has four sources listed and it doesn’t seem really convincing. With only four sources, it only makes up about a small percentage of information in the article. External links that are listed, seems to make up the article with the majority of it information. The “See Also” list of the article however has a lot of external sources, which may assume that this current article may be a sub-article off the other external links. Overall, on the positive note, this article’s structure is very amusing for readers to keep digging on the subject of Ship naming. (BigbrownPaddlaa (talk) 03:44, 23 April 2012 (UTC))
- In the Maritime World, the very ships we sail on are named with representation, or sometimes named for other sailors to know the ships by and originality. Most ships to date always had a feminine name to a vessel, and sailors would always refer to ships as representation of a female. However, the origin of ship naming came first from the Egyptians, the first pioneers of the use of ships on the water. Egyptians would name their ships after Gods, in place to honor the God(s)and seek protection from the natural elements while sailing on the water. Eventually, as the rise of the Greek and Roman empires their ships would be named after Animals, Abstract nouns that would represent their rule, and even their Gods like the Egyptians would. Overtime, explorers like Columbus, would name their vessels to sound more feminine. This trend was widely used to represent a female figure or a mystical creature; other sailors would know the ship by.It was certain that, to very captain in charge of a ship, his ship was his lady and partner that will sail with each other through the seas. Other ships according to an Oxford Encyclopedia, ships were rarely named by the way the ship moved or looked from the outside. (OEMH) But naming a vessel has always been a tradition before she launched from the dry dock. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming)
- In history during the middle ages, there was a lot of controversy of naming ships and there representation of the names given. According to records, a lot of ships were commonly named to each other, which threw a lot of sea goers off on what ship is which. (OEMH) Other issues also varied, that merchant vessels had to be named in an association to religion and past known relatives of the ship’s captain. The governments during this time, had issues with the captains over this affair of naming their vessel. Thus, they instructed these captains to follow a certain requirement. But the restrictions and qualifications of naming ships did not stop there. Other nations like England for example would have to name their ships after Kings and or members of living royal families. France had their vessels be named after words of meaning like courage or bravery. (OEMH) The usage of Mythical creatures was also a common use to name ships after the 17th-18th century. It eventually became very popular to many captains because it would represent something special or a story about their vessels, and seas they would sail on. The term of “Christening” was a formal tradition of launching brand new ships before it was launched in the water. This tradition came from the Europeans, in a sense of giving that ship a “good luck on your voyages”, just like a baptism for a child into Catholic/ Christian monastery. Today,most of the ship building piers in the world thought it would be best to keep this tradition, in a sense of giving a ship a proper welcoming into service.An interesting fact on ship launching is that, the United States flagships were christening by female sponsors of office or important figure. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming)
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Resources
Hattendorf, J. “Ship names and naming”.Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History. 3rd Vol. 2007. 606-608.
Ship Naming.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming. February 29th, 2012.
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Shipyards[edit]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipyard
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=naval+docks&go=Go
http://198.189.53.24/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=X3323UB778656.1049&profile=main&source=~!maritime&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!46545~!2&ri=2&aspect=advanced&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=naval&index=.GW&uindex=&oper=AND&term=shipyards&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=advanced&menu=search&ri=2
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Add-ons
1.Naval Ship yards (past/present)
North America
United Kingdom
China
South Korea
2.Ship Naming (Ceremonies) [1]
3. =Types of Shiping yards/docks=
Floating Dock-
Dry Dock-
(http://www.brighthub.com/engineering/marine/articles/32659.aspx)
(http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/dry-dock-types-of-dry-docks-requirements-for-dry-dock/)
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