In recent years the international community has deployed navy ships to guard the area in an effort to fight piracy.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

For the most part, the Confederacy depended on privately owned ships to get goods in and out of the South.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

British ships,with the help of planes launched from an aircraft carrier, destroyed a powerful German battleship, the Bismarck on May 27,1941.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

Other patients have been cared for on the United States Navy hospital ship Comfort and other Navy ships sent to Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

A group of small states on the coast of North Africa was seizing American ships and holding their crews hostage.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

These were the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii was an important port for American trade ships sailing between the United States and China.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

She waved from our ships upon the briny foam And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

On December twenty-fourth,nineteen-oh-six, radio operators on ships in the Atlantic Ocean near the American coast began hearing strange things.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

Pirate ships often flew the flag of a friendly country as they sailed toward the ship they planned to rob.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Ships often sank. No one could survive the freezing waters in this dangerous area if the ship went down.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Darwin sent much of what he collected back to England on other ships the Beagle met along the way.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

They were only two men among more than one hundred who left the ships with huge amounts of money.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

The Barbary States, as they were known, demanded payment for the release of hostages and safe passage of American ships.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The Florida,for example, captured more than thirty ships before being captured itself off the coast of Brazil in eighteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.09.10