"Strong waves pushed water inside the boat and one woman screamed causing a commotion that tilted the ship capsizing it, " one eye witness said.

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The pirates raced toward the ship, the Captain Maslov, in a high-speed boat late Thursday afternoon and attacked as it headed from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Mombasa, Kenya, the ministry said.

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As a city, Nagasaki has a remarkable history (it was the only place in Japan open to foreigners for over 200 years), and the boat trip is surprisingly attractive, past a hypermodern cruise ship terminal and countless inlets filled with shipyards, all cradled between mountains.

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Then, in 1960, a notebook was found containing another Essex narrative, parallel with Owen Chase's, written by Thomas Nickerson, cabin boy on the ship and a crew member of Chase's castaway boat.

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In 1761, a British carpenter named John Harrison built the first marine chronometer, capable of keeping time on board a rolling boat and providing ship captains with a way to determine their longitude during a voyage.

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