speedboat

On Monday, a speedboat carrying eight people, including five journalists working for local and international news agencies went missing near a volcano, Mount Anak Krakatau, in Banten province and a search is ongoing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Fifteen people have died after a speedboat carrying Indian tourists capsized near a island in the south of Vietnam, according to local media reports.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Farzin Nadimi, an Iran-focused senior fellow with the Washington Institute, a U.S.-based think tank, said more than 60% of the Revolutionary Guard’s fast-attack craft and speedboat fleet remains intact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

“We can tell you it’s a tanker, it’s a fishing vessel, it’s a speedboat, it’s a sailing boat,” said Zack Spica, a University of Michigan assistant professor who co-founded Lumetec, which is selling the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Quang-ha has the television remote, and he moves through the channels in a way that a grandmother might turn the pages of a speedboat catalog featuring water skis.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Spanish gangs operate many of the speedboats moving shipments north to Spain in the Strait of Gibraltar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

This included "ghost speedboats" which are designed to avoid registration and detection, which are prohibited in Spain.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In a U.S. combat first, three unmanned speedboats attacked an Iranian submarine and ship facility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The US military said it had struck over 80 targets including Iranian speedboats in response to Iranian attacks on ships in the vital Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

He and his sister mimic the Frenchman’s experiments; they make speedboats out of matchsticks and magnets out of sewing needles.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr