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A fisherman tells how a fishing boat crew was rescued after their boat started taking on water.

Recent financial turmoil has threatened Iceland's government and its currency.

Deckhands, chefs and shipshape stewards are in short supply as the super-yacht industry booms.

A Yorkshireman is given five years in prison for raping a female deckhand while on a boat moored off Orkney.

Once threatened fishing industry courses are now oversubscribed, BBC Scotland can reveal.

Our reporter Rebecca Morelle joins a Danish research team as it tries to tag walruses in the Arctic.

Cornwall rescue services are told by marine accident investigators to work closely together after delays in evacuating an injured deckhand.

The wife of a drowned fishing boat captain calls for the wearing of lifejackets to be made compulsory.

BBC News visits the ship given the task of playing HMS Victory in Tuesday's Trafalgar re-enactment.

Rare items including a model figurehead and a 'below deck' account of the Battle of Trafalgar are being auctioned.

Kirsty MacColl's mother hopes to make a statement soon on a new inquiry into her daughter's death.

The inquiry into the death of singer Kirsty MacColl, who died in a speedboat accident, has been reopened.

John Prestwich, paralysed from the chin down, is 64 - and holds the dubious distinction of being the longest surviving beneficiary of iron lung technology.

A deckhand is jailed for two years for setting fire to an offshore supply vessel loaded with fuel as the crew slept.

An Aberdeenshire fisherman is moving to Iceland for a new start because he says he is not making enough money in Scotland.

The mother of Kirsty MacColl is shocked at a £61 fine for the driver of the boat that killed the singer in Mexico.

The mother of late singer Kirsty MacColl is to travel to Mexico in an attempt to get justice for her daughter.

The 1970s "cod wars" mean Iceland controls its own fish stocks, but even so they have declined.

Prison bosses cause fury by sending out recruitment leaflets asking people in fishing communities if they feel their jobs are "on the rocks".

Send us your views on the the new BBC2 documentary series The Ship.

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