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Surf Life Saving Australia
Surf Life Saving Australia is Australia's peak coastal water safety, drowning prevention, and rescue authority, a volunteer federation founded in 1907 that has performed nearly 750,000 rescues.
Svanen (crane vessel)
Svanen is a Dutch-owned catamaran floating crane vessel built in 1990 for bridge construction and dedicated since 2005 to installing monopile foundations for offshore wind farms.
Sverdlov-class cruiser
The Sverdlov-class cruiser (Project 68bis, Свердлов) was a class of 14 Soviet gun-armed light cruisers completed between 1952 and 1955, the largest cruiser class in Soviet history.
Swedish Sea Rescue Society
The Swedish Sea Rescue Society (Sjöräddningssällskapet) is a volunteer non-profit that performs most sea rescue around Sweden, founded in 1907 and funded without state support.
Symphony of the Seas
Symphony of the Seas is a Royal Caribbean Oasis-class cruise ship, the world's largest cruise ship from 2018 until Wonder of the Seas took the title in 2022.
Synchronous rolling
Synchronous rolling is a resonant ship motion in which large roll amplitudes build up because the wave encounter period matches the ship's natural roll period, adding energy with each wave.
T.S. Lines (德翔海运)
T.S. Lines (德翔海运) is a Taiwanese container liner shipping company founded in 2001 by Chen Teh-Sheng, running about 47 vessels on intra-Asia-Pacific routes and listed in Hong Kong since 2024.
Tacoma-class frigate
The Tacoma class was a class of 96 patrol frigates built for the United States Navy during World War II to mercantile standards, based on the British River-class design.
Takoradi Harbour
Takoradi Harbour is a deep-water seaport at Takoradi in Ghana's Western Region, commissioned in 1928 as the Gold Coast's first deep-water harbor and still one of Ghana's two principal commercial ports.
Tallink Grupp
Tallink Grupp is an Estonian shipping company that operates passenger and cargo ferries in the Baltic Sea under the Tallink Silja Line brand, carrying about 5.5 million passengers in 2025.
Talwar-class frigate
The Talwar-class frigate is a class of stealth guided-missile frigates designed in Russia for the Indian Navy, derived from the Soviet Krivak-class hull, with ten ships ordered in three batches.
Tanger Med
Tanger Med is a container port complex in northern Morocco on the Strait of Gibraltar, with the largest container port capacity in Africa and the Mediterranean.
Tanka people
The Tanka people, also called Danjia or boat people, are boat-dwelling communities of South China who lived by fishing for centuries before resettling ashore after 1949.
Tanker (ship)
A tanker, also called a tankship, is a merchant ship built to carry liquid cargo in bulk in tanks built into the hull, including crude oil, chemicals, and liquefied gases.
Tarantul-class corvette
The Tarantul-class corvette, NATO's reporting name for the Soviet Project 12411 or Molnia, is a small missile ship designed for coastal strike missions and widely exported.
Tarlac-class landing platform dock
The Tarlac-class landing platform dock is a class of two strategic sealift vessels of the Philippine Navy, built by PT PAL Indonesia and commissioned in 2016 and 2017.
Taymyr (1987 icebreaker)
Taymyr (Таймыр) is a shallow-draft nuclear-powered icebreaker built at Wärtsilä in Helsinki and fitted with its reactor in Russia, serving from 1989 in the shallow Ob and Yenisey estuaries.
TCG Anadolu
TCG Anadolu (L-400) is an amphibious assault ship of the Turkish Navy, delivered in 2023 as the world's first aircraft carrier specialized in unmanned combat aerial vehicles.
TD3C
TD3C is a Baltic Exchange benchmark route for VLCC freight rates from Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, to Ningbo, China, carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude oil.
Teekay Tankers
Teekay Tankers is a Marshall Islands-based owner and operator of mid-sized crude oil and refined product tankers, formed by its parent Teekay Corporation in 2007 and listed on the NYSE.
Tennessee-class battleship
The Tennessee class was a pair of US Navy dreadnought battleships, USS Tennessee and USS California, completed in 1920 and 1921 with twelve 14-inch guns each.
Tepukei
The tepukei, also written tepuke or Te Puke, is a large ocean-going sailing canoe of the proa type built on Taumako in the Duff Islands, Solomon Islands.
Thalassocracy
Thalassocracy (Greek thalassokratia, "sea power"; also thalattocracy) is political power based on control of the sea and maritime trade, first applied by Thucydides to Minos of Crete.
The Big Piece
The Big Piece is a 17-ton, 25-foot section of RMS Titanic's starboard hull with four portholes, raised in 1998 and displayed at the Luxor casino in Las Vegas.
The captain goes down with the ship
"The captain goes down with the ship" is a maritime tradition that a captain bears ultimate responsibility for the vessel and should save those aboard or share its fate.
The Good Luck
The Good Luck is a 1991 House of Lords decision holding that breach of a promissory warranty discharges an insurer automatically from liability from the date of breach.
The Jason
The Jason is a 1912 United States Supreme Court admiralty decision upholding a bill-of-lading clause requiring cargo owners to contribute to general average despite negligent navigation.
The Mission to Seafarers
The Mission to Seafarers, formerly The Missions to Seamen, is an Anglican-affiliated charity providing welfare support to merchant seafarers in over 200 ports across 50 countries.
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection is an ultra-luxury cruise line operating three all-suite superyachts, Evrima, Ilma, and Luminara, under license from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and announced in 2017.
The Salem
The Salem was a Liberian-registered supertanker scuttled off Senegal in January 1980, after her crew secretly discharged Kuwaiti crude at Durban, South Africa, breaking the oil embargo.