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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Ocean Endeavour Passengers Become First Tourists to Visit the HMS Erebus Wreck Site

  Wilmot and Crampton Bay, Nunavut, CanadaAdventure Canada

  

  Starts 09/05/2019CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better7.1 years agoWikipedia's^[3] MS Ocean Endeavour article states Adventure Canada^[2] passengers were the first members of the public to visit the HMS Erebus wreck site, on 5 September 2019.

  On 5 September 2019, Adventure Canada passengers aboard the ice-class MS Ocean Endeavour became the first members of the public allowed to visit the wreck of Sir John Franklin's HMS Erebus in the Canadian Arctic.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Le Commandant Charcot Becomes First LNG-Powered Ship to Reach the North Pole

  Geographic North Pole, Arctic OceanPonant

  

  Starts 09/06/2021CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.1 years agoConfirmed by Cruise Industry News^[4] and Seatrade Cruise^[2], which both report Le Commandant Charcot reached the Geographic North Pole on 6 September 2021.

  Ponant's hybrid-electric icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot reached the Geographic North Pole on 6 September 2021, the first French vessel and the first LNG-propelled ship ever to do so.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Karpowership Sends the Yasin Bey on Its Maiden Voyage to Ambon

  Ambon, Maluku, IndonesiaKarpowership

  

  Starts 11/13/2016CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better9.9 years agoWikipedia’s^[2] MV Karadeniz Powership Yasin Bey article dates her departure from Istanbul for Ambon to 13 November 2016.

  Karpowership dispatched the floating power plant Yasin Bey from Istanbul on a four-week voyage to Ambon, Indonesia, where the 125 MW vessel would moor offshore to supply the island’s grid.

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• Marine10/01/2026@BuildDesk

  Hull Assembly Begins on Matson's Makua, the First of Three New Jones Act Aloha Class Containerships

  Building 602, Kitty Hawk Avenue, Philadelphia Naval Business Center, South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 19112, United StatesMatson

  

  Starts 08/04/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.2 years agoWorkBoat^[1] reported the keel-laying milestone at Hanwha Philly Shipyard on 5 August 2025, and MarineLink^[2] reports the steel-cutting on 30 September 2024; the delivery schedule has been given as late 2026 and as 2027-2028.

  At Hanwha Philly Shipyard in August 2025 hull assembly began on Makua, the first of three 3,600-TEU LNG-fuelled Aloha class ships built for Matson's Hawaii, Guam and China-Long Beach Express services for nearly $1 billion.

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• Marine10/01/2026@BuildDesk

  Hanwha Ocean Wins a $500 Million Order for Two LNG Carriers

  Hanwha Ocean, Aju-dong, Geoje-si, South Gyeongsang, South KoreaHanwha Ocean

  

  Starts 09/28/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better7 days agoThe Korea Times^[1] dated the order 28 September 2026 and Splash247's^[2] headline, Seoul Economic Daily and New-Ships.com all report the same two-ship, roughly $500 million contract.

  Hanwha Ocean said on 28 September 2026 it will build two LNG carriers for an African shipowner for 680 billion won, about $499.6 million, with delivery by November 2029; market sources link the order to Zodiac Maritime.

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• Marine10/01/2026@BuildDesk

  Oceania Sonata Is Due to Sail Her First Cruise From Rome on 7 August 2027

  Cruise Terminal, strada statale 1 Aurelia Nord, Civitavecchia, Roma Capitale, Lazio, 00053, ItalyOceania Cruises

  

  08/07/2027 - 08/20/2027SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 306 daysCruiseline.co.uk^[1] and Cruise Mummy^[2] both list the maiden voyage departing Rome on 7 August 2027; the ship is still under construction, so the date could move.

  Oceania Cruises' new 1,390-guest Sonata, about 86,000 gross tons with 30% of her accommodation in suites, is scheduled to begin a 14-day voyage from Rome to Trieste on 7 August 2027.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Meyer Werft Delivers the AIDAnova, the World's First LNG-Powered Cruise Ship

  Meyer Werft Shipyard, Industriegebiet Süd, Papenburg, GermanyMeyer Werft

  

  Starts 12/12/2018CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better7.8 years agoMeyer Werft’s^[2] own press release "AIDAnova handed over to AIDA Cruises" gives 12 December 2018 as the delivery date, corroborated by Seatrade Cruise^[3] News.

  Meyer Werft handed over the AIDAnova, built at its Papenburg shipyard as the world's first cruise ship able to run on liquefied natural gas, to AIDA Cruises. The 337-metre ship carries up to 6,600 passengers and was assembled from roughly 15 million individual parts.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Fenton, Murray and Wood Launches the Salamanca, the First Commercial Steam Locomotive

  16 Foundry Street, Holbeck, Leeds LS11 5QP, UKFenton, Murray and Wood

  

  Starts 06/24/1812CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better214.3 years agoWikipedia's^[3] Salamanca (locomotive) article and the Real Yorkshire Blog^[2] both date the locomotive's first public run to 24 June 1812.

  At the Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds, engineering firm Fenton, Murray and Wood built the Salamanca, the world's first commercially successful steam locomotive, which first ran publicly on 24 June 1812. Designed by Matthew Murray for John Blenkinsop's rack-and-pinion Middleton Railway, it hauled coal using a toothed rail system.

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• Science09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Marmaray Tunnel Excavators Uncover Constantinople's Theodosian Harbor

  Yenikapı, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey

  

  Starts 11/01/2005ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins62% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 62%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence20.9 years agoAccounts of the Marmaray excavation (Grand Sirkeci^[3] Hotel's history page and the Harvard 'Urban Imagination' exhibit) place the discovery of the silted-up harbor at Yenikapı in November 2005, without a more precise day recorded.

  Digging for Istanbul's Marmaray rail tunnel at Yenikapı, workers strike the silted-up remains of the Theodosian Harbor, a Byzantine-era port that would go on to yield 37 shipwrecks and roughly 100,000 artifacts.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Mexico Inaugurates the First Section of the Tren Maya

  Cancún, Quintana Roo, MexicoFonatur

  

  Starts 12/15/2023CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better2.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: Tren Maya's director promised in October 2023 to inaugurate the line "in December 2023," and reporting confirms a partial inauguration went ahead on December 15, 2023.

  Mexico inaugurated the first operating section of the Tren Maya, a roughly $10BN, 1,500km railway looping the Yucatan Peninsula that had drawn years of backlash from environmentalists and indigenous communities.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Vostok Oil Ships First Crude From Its Arctic Megaport

  Bukhta Sever, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, RussiaRosneft

  

  Starts 09/06/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better29 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Rosneft loaded the first cargo onto the... tanker Valentin Pikul after President Vladimir Putin formally commissioned the project on September 6."

  Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Cristóbal Colón Launches as the World's Largest Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger

  La Naval Shipyard, Sestao, SpainJan De Nul Group

  

  Starts 07/04/2008CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins80% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 80%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better18.3 years agoOffshore Energy^[3] and Dredging Today both report the Cristóbal Colón was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao on 4 July 2008.

  Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.

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