Inside a giant ship
Explore three cutaways, from engine rooms and ballast tanks to cargo holds and passenger decks.
Open the cutaways →Get to know the giants.
Compare their scale, understand their purpose and follow the evidence behind their stories.
Engineering lab
Change waves, damping, cargo and ballast in two interactive educational models.
Try the models →A life in milestones
Follow construction, service, conversions and documented events across the fleet.
Browse ship histories →Voyage histories
Explore documented journeys and sampled AIS reports, with the difference made explicit.
Explore the voyages →The photo archive
Look closer with attributed galleries, dry-dock scenes and photographs from across the fleet.
Browse the photographs →Running a giant
Read the illustrated series on people, fuel, machinery, provisions and operations.
Go aboard →Engineering case studies
Understand the recovery of Ever Given and Costa Concordia through sources and diagrams.
Read the case studies →Compare ships
Choose two or three vessels and compare dimensions, capacity, purpose and propulsion.
Build a comparison →See their scale
Put a vessel’s length beside a sprint straight, an example pitch or the height of the Eiffel Tower.
Open the size explorer →Follow the records
Trace historical milestones in length, gross tonnage and cargo capacity without mixing their units.
Read the record timeline →Check received positions
See report ages, verified AIS identities and coverage gaps across the fleet.
Open vessel tracking →Does it fit the canal?
Length and beam against the stated limits of Panama, Suez and the Strait of Malacca.
Set the locks →The fleet at a glance
Type mix, size distributions and the top longs and tonnages, all computed from the directory.
View the charts →The ship classes
Sister vessels grouped by design families across the yards.
Browse the classes →Ship aboard the orders
Ships on contract and under construction, with sources and claimed delivery years.
Survey the future →Maritime glossary
Plain-language definitions of ship measurements, tonnages, canal standards and shipyard terms.
Read the glossary →Search everything
Find any vessel, sister class, shipyard, news post or guide across the entire site.
Search the fleet →26 ships, deeper stories
Start with these profiles for construction history, original purpose and documented service milestones.
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