SHIP HAS A SMASHING TIME IN ANTARCTIC SEA ICE.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 28, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The ship is rumbling and stopping, stopping and rumbling...Six hours into the 1999 ``break-in,'' the ship has traveled about 17 miles through 4-foot-thi...is tremendous, with everything aboard the ship that can make noise - stanchions, bolts...

Hospital ship preps for a novel mission: 'Comfort' will travel to Latin...

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  May 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Robert Little May 31--The hospital ship USNS Comfort leaves its Baltimore home...Persian Gulf on recent deployments, the ship is beginning a carefully choreographed...diplomacy as medicine and has caused the ship and the Navy to recast the vessel's fundamental...

Analysis: West African authorities trying to locate ship carrying more...

NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  April 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ......West African authorities trying to locate ship carrying more than 100 children destined...to work as slave laborers in Gabon. The ship has not been heard from since it was turned...you tell us? What's the latest on this ship? WATSON: Well, authorities here say they'...

ship

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      286 words ...ship / sh ip / • n. a vessel larger than a boat for transporting...trans. ] (often be shipped ) transport (goods or people) on a ship: the soldiers were shipped home. ∎  transport...for purchase. ∎  [ intrans. ] dated embark on a ship: passengers ship at Liverpool. ...

Passengers Say Captain Abandoned Them;Cruise Ship Entertainers, Staff...

The Washington Post;  August 6, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Irate passengers rescued from a cruise ship that sank Sunday in stormy seas off the...Africa complained bitterly today that the ship's captain and crew abandoned them and said...evacuation was organized entirely by the ship's entertainers and staff of the tour company...

Greeks Probe Terror Link to Cargo Ship

AP Online;  June 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Dateline: PLATIYALI, Greece A rusting cargo ship was placed under heavy guard Monday as...Giorgos Anomeritis said. Making sense of the ship's meandering journey may take some time...of shipping, where the true owners of a ship often hide behind offshore management companies...

Ship cargo has Greeks pondering

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  June 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ...PLATIYALI, Greece -- A rusting cargo ship was placed under heavy guard Monday as...Giorgos Anomeritis said. Making sense of the ship's meandering journey may take some time...of shipping, where the true owners of a ship often hide behind offshore management companies...

THE RUMPUS BEGINS: SHIP VS. ICE.(NEWS)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 27, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The ship is rattling like a secondhand washing machine, levering up and down...about a mile of chunky sea ice that isn't going anywhere unless the ship moves it. The ship will move it when the time is right, but for the moment, the Polar Star...

Bad weather hits attempts to repair stricken ship

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  February 5, 2008 ;     445 words ...Plans to move the stricken cargo ship MV Horncliff to a ship repair yard were postponed yesterday after severe weather made it impossible for the ship to berth safely. MV Horncliff was scheduled to be moved three-quarte...

Grounded Ship in S. Africa Leaks Oil

AP Online;  September 13, 2002 ;     417 words ......omitted] JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) _ A ship that ran aground off a protected wetland area...salvage team managed to board the Italian ship, the Jolly Rubino, Friday afternoon and rescued the ship's dog, which appeared to have injured a hind...

Royal Caribbean introduces world's largest cruise ship.

The Boston Herald;  November 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ...How big is the world's biggest cruise ship? So big that during a three-hour tour on this...other football stadium, for that matter). The ship overwhelms its specially built world's-largest-cruise-ship terminal at the Port of Miami, and towers over...

HOSPITAL SHIP WILL GET A NEW LEASE ON LIFE

The Boston Globe;  April 11, 1990 ;     700+ words ......men with a dream are restoring a hospital ship made for war into an international instrument...46-year-old, white-hulled Navy hospital ship. The vessel may be worth $200 million...Congress passed special bills making the ship available. The group is conducting a multimillion-doll...

Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical...

Science News;  December 3, 2005 ;     145 words ...BENEATH THE SEVEN SEAS: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology GEORGE F. BASS, ED. This compilation of essays guides...sunken cities. The book begins with an introduction to nautical archaeology and then proceeds chronologically, starting with a site...

ABANDON SHIP; 900 forced to flee jinxed cruise liner.(News)

Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  September 13, 1998 ;     458 words ...A troubled cruise ship sailed into stormy waters AGAIN last night...tourist blasted: They should take that ship into the middle of the ocean and scuttle...Scots, were coached back to the jinxed ship. Hamish and Morag Watt, of Coupar Angus...

41 years later, ship's tale still dominates

Daily Breeze;  February 17, 2002 ;     676 words ...41 years later, ship's tale still dominates WRECK: Greek freighter loaded...the ocean slowly claims theremainder of the 441-foot ship. The slow, steady demise of the Greek Liberty ship that on March 13, 1961, caused one of the largest public...