A fire which swept through a cargoshipcarrying thousands of luxury cars and adrift off the coast of Portugal's Azores islands has lost its intensity, probably because there is little left to burn, a port official said. The Felicity Ace, carrying around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis...
A large cargo vessel carrying luxury cars from Germany to the United States sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic, 13 days after afire broke out on board, the ship's manager and the Portuguese navysaid. The cars on board the Felicity Ace included Porsches, Lamborghinis and Bentleys, the Wall ...
Remember that burning ship carrying luxury cars? It sank The best luxury cars Reports suggest the fire has been fueled by lithium-ion batteries on electric cars aboard the vessel. A malfunction with one of the batteries could also have caused the blaze, though this has to be confirmed. Commen...
As it turns out, the shipwreck in that first video was of a cargo ship that was carrying thousands of brand-new automobiles, which were all destroyed in the fire and subsequent capsizing of a “roll-on/roll-off” (RORO) vessel off the coast of Georgia (the state, not the country) in...
Volkswagen AG faces a pair of lawsuits in Germany over claims it was the battery in a Porsche electric vehicle that triggered the 2022 fire onboard a massive cargo ship that eventually sank with thousands of cars on board. One of the suits was filed in a court in Stuttgart where VW’s ...
The airship Clement Bayard II., carrying seven passengers, has made a remarkable journey from Compiegne, 52 miles to the north-east of Paris, to London, alighting at Shepherd’s Bush, five miles to the west of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in 6 hours, 11 minutes. The distance travelled was ...
Newark firefighters Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. were killed in the Wednesday night fire aboard the Grande Costa d’Avorio, an Italian-flagged vessel carrying thousands of vehicles and other goods that was at port in Newark. ...
(a) so constructed as to be capable of preventing the passage of flame to the end of the first 30 minutes of the standard fire test; (b) so constructed as to provide an insulation standard such that, if the division is exposed to a standard fire test, the average temperature on the ...
acceleration against frequency and refer to exposure times beyond which there is likely to be a decrease in proficiency particularly in carrying out tasks where fatigue is likely to be a significant factor. The limiting accelerations at which humans are likely to experience some discomfort can be ...
A cargo vessel carrying several thousand new cars capsized on Sunday off the coast of Georgia, and four crew members were reported missing. The vessel belongs to Hyundai Glovis, but a Hyundai spokesperson told C/D that none of the cars on board were Hyundais. The Korea Herald said the vehi...