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NEWS ABOUT: ship

ship stories: 19 news summaries

 Maersk Alabama Repels 
 2nd Pirate Attack 

Attempted takeover repelled by guards

Nov 18, 09 6:30 AM CST
(AP) - Somali pirates today attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months, but guards on board the US-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt. When pirates attacked with automatic weapons early this morning about 350 nautical miles east of the Somali coast, guards on board the craft fired... More »

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Somalia • ship • piracy • pirates • cargo ships • Maersk Alabama • Richard Phillips

 UAE Seizes Ship Bringing 
 N. Korean Arms to Iran 

Shipment violates UN ban on weapons exports from Pyongyang

Aug 28, 09 9:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in the United Arab Emirates today seized a ship carrying weapons from North Korea to Iran, the Financial Times reports—a violation of United Nations resolutions barring Pyongyang from exporting arms. The shipment was headed for a company linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which has previously been banned... More »

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Iran • North Korea • ship • Pyongyang • embargo • United Arab Emirates • UN resolution • arms embargo

(Newser) - The hijackers of the Russian-crewed freighter Arctic Sea planned to destroy it if their ransom demand was not met, Reuters reports. “The crew members have already confirmed that the captors demanded a ransom and threatened to blow up the vessel,” says a Russian defense official. There was no... More »

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ship • explosives • hijacker • pirates • Malta • ransom • Arctic Sea • Russian Navy

(Newser) - A California scientist says he's closer to predicting the kind of rogue waves that have terrified seamen for centuries, the BBC reports. Rising as high as 6 stories and destroying ships with a single wallop, such waves occur where sand banks and currents force wave energy to focus on a... More »

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tsunami • ship • waves • shipping

(Newser) - A 74-year-old passenger has died after some 150 people fell ill with suspected norovirus on the luxury cruise liner Marco Polo, reports the BBC. The ship was touring the UK and Ireland with some 1100 passengers and staff when the illness broke out. The liner is currently being held at... More »

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ship • death • port • vacation • virus • cruise ships • flu • norovirus • cruise lines • cause of death

 N. Korean Ship Reverses Course

Suspected weapons vessel may be headed back home

Jul 1, 09 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The North Korean cargo ship being monitored by the US Navy has abruptly changed course and may be heading home, Reuters reports. The Kang Nam, believed to have been carrying arms to Burma, was being tracked under toughened UN sanctions instituted after the country's recent nuclear test. "We've no... More »

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North Korea • ship • Burma • UN sanctions • US Navy • weapons • Kang Nam

(Newser) - The new sanctions in place against Pyongyang have their first test: The US is monitoring a North Korean ship that left port today and may be carrying illegal weapons, reports Reuters. The Navy is keeping the Kang Nam in its sights in international waters as a "subject of interest.... More »

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North Korea • ship • UN sanctions • US Navy

US Steps Up Navy Challenges Against N. Korea

Obama orders military to stop rogue state's ships for inspection

Jun 16, 09 6:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration will instruct the Navy to attempt to inspect North Korean ships suspected of carrying arms or nuclear technology—but it will stop short of boarding them by force. The new effort to track North Korean ships is a component of America's "vigorous enforcement" of a UN ... More »

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North Korea • Navy • ship • nuclear weapons • inspection • US Navy • UN Security Council • Obama administration

 Pirates Seize German Ship 


Apr 25, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(AP) - Hijackers seized a German-owned ship in the pirate-infested waters between Somalia and Yemen today, a US Navy spokesman said. Pirates captured the Maltese-flagged MV Patriot in the Gulf of Aden about 150 nautical miles southeast of the Yemeni coastal city of Muqalla. An official from the German Foreign Ministry could... More »

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Somalia • ship • German • pirates • US Navy

Hong Kong Brothers Brave Tide With Life-Size Ark

Biblical specs set it apart from others worldwide

Apr 14, 09 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - A trio of billionaire brothers in Hong Kong is offering shelter from the financial storm in the form of a life-size Noah’s ark replica, built using the Bible as a manual, the Wall Street Journal reports. The ark is one of many replicas worldwide, but the only one that... More »

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Hong Kong • ship • Netherlands • Noah's Ark • boat • replica

US, France Scuffle Over 1679 Shipwreck in Great Lakes

Vessel was likely on Louis XIV's orders

Feb 16, 09 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The state of Michigan, French officials, and an American diver are battling over a wreck discovered at the bottom of Lake Michigan that's believed to be a French ship laden with furs and muskets on a mission for King Louis XIV. The Griffin, launched by famous French explorer La Salle... More »

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France • shipwreck • ship • Michigan • Lake Michigan • Louis XIV • explorer

Somali Pirates Score $3.2M 
Ransom, Release Arms Ship

Pirates receive $3.2M ransom after September hijacking

Feb 5, 09 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Crime does pay—to the tune of the $3.2 million ransom that Somali pirates collected today in exchange for releasing a Ukrainian ship they hijacked in September, reports the BBC. The pirates had initially sought $20 million for the arms-laden MV Faina, which had been en route to Kenya.... More »

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Somalia • Kenya • ship • piracy • Ukraine • pirates • weapons • ransom

Shipwreck Found Off UK
May Hold $1B in Treasure

Florida firm finds HMS Victory, lost in 1744

Feb 2, 09 4:36 PM CST
(Newser) - A shipwreck that could contain treasure worth over $1 billion has been found in the English Channel, Reuters reports. Florida’s Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered the wreck of the HMS Victory, an English flagship that was lost in a storm in 1744 with all 900 crew—and a stash of... More »

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shipwreck • ship • treasure • history • Britain • gold coins • Odyssey Marine Exploration • HMS Victory

SOS: Historic Queen Mary
Needs Saving

Ship's developer hits financial iceberg

Jan 17, 09 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The Queen Mary needs a new lease on life now that a developer is selling its interest in the iconic ship’s lease, the Press-Telegram reports. One of the partners of Save the Queen, which bought the Queen Mary’s lease for $43 million in 2007, is having financial issues,... More »

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California • ship • Long Beach • Queen Mary

 Argentine Diggers Find 
 18th-Century Galleon 

300-year-old Spanish wreck found by team building Buenos Aires apartment block

Dec 31, 08 10:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Workers digging the foundations for a riverside apartment complex in Buenos Aires stumbled across the buried wreck of an 18th-century Spanish galleon, Reuters reports. Experts believe the ship is at least 300 years old and was likely driven ashore by a storm and then buried in mud. Archaeologists are combing... More »

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shipwreck • ship • Argentina • excavation • Buenos Aires

Ike Uncovers Mystery Shipwreck

Wooden wreck on Alabama beach could be remains of Confederate schooner

Sep 20, 08 5:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The waves of Hurricane Ike uncovered a wooden shipwreck on an Alabama beach that experts think could be a Civil War schooner, the Mobile Press-Register reports. The wreck's length matches that of the Monticello, which ran aground in the area in 1862 while trying to sneak past the US Navy... More »

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shipwreck • ship • Alabama • Civil War • Confederacy • Mobile, Alabama • Hurricane Ike

Ship Shortage Stalls
Offshore Oil Drilling

Oil companies frustrated by inability to exploit new discoveries

Jun 19, 08 3:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A severe shortage of deep-sea drilling rigs will hold up exploitation of offshore oil for years, the New York Times reports. Existing rigs are booked solid for five years, and shipbuilders around the world are scrambling to fill dozens of new orders. Oil companies are frustrated by their inability to... More »

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ship • oil exploration • oil drilling • oil reserves • oil rig • offshore oil

QE2 to Dock, for Good, in Dubai

Cruising days over, storied ship will be a  floating hotel in the Persian Gulf

Jun 18, 07 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - After 40 years at sea, the glamorous passenger liner QE2 will be sold by Carnival Cruise Lines to a Dubai firm for $100 million, then turned into luxury lodgings. The company promises to restore the interior of the ship, which will be anchored off three man-made islands, and to build... More »

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Persian Gulf • ship • Dubai • QE2 • Carnival Cruise Lines • Ahmed bin Sulayem • boat

Blaze Ravages London Clipper

A fire ravaged the historic Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London this morning

May 21, 07 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fire ripped through London's historic Cutty Sark early this morning, nearly destroying the 138-year-old tea clipper. But an ongoing £25 million restoration saved the ship, which has drawn 15 million tourists to its south-east London dock since it opened in 1957. Much of its structural foundation, including its... More »

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London • tourism • Cutty Sark • England • Greenwich • ship

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