High seas adventure for South Australians one and all

Sailing through the night, standing alone as lookout on the bow of the One & All with 42 metres of two-masted, square-rigged brigantine behind you, it’s easy to let your mind slip back a couple of centuries.

Osborne ship jobs to combat unemployment

The ramping up of shipbuilding programs at Osborne this year is providing an employment lifeline for South Australia as the state’s jobless rate continues to rise.

The British Government says a Royal Navy warship warned off Iranian gunboats harassing a British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a week after UK troops boarded an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar. Photo: supplied

Iran denies Gulf confrontation with British warship

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have rejected a US claim that they tried to stop a British tanker in the Gulf, via a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency.