These were illicitly transferred to the German merchant ship Victoria at Syria's Latakia port.
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Muse is the only surviving attacker of the Maersk Alabama merchant ship off Somalia's coast in April 2009.
Remember, the only American merchant ship ever almost taken by pirates defeated the pirates with a pocket knife.
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The Kennemerland, a Dutch East India Company merchant ship that was outward bound from Holland to the East Indies.
Early Wednesday morning, IDF naval commandos boarded the merchant ship Francop and diverted it to the naval base at Ashdod.
The merchant ship APL Bahrain found six survivors in the water early on Thursday and more were rescued during the day.
Chris had a great uncle, not related to me, who was part of a naval gun crew on a WWII merchant ship.
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And the vessel was also called on during her transit home, to guard a merchant ship against piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the only survivor of the crew of pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama merchant ship off Somalia's coast in April 2009.
But within weeks, Ford was able to turn public opinion around when an American merchant ship called the Mayaguez was captured by the now-communist Cambodian government.
At a time when Portugal was a great seafaring nation Columbus worked as common seaman on a merchant ship and as a chart-maker before entering the service of King John II of Portugal.
Raised in a strict Prussian family, he went to sea at age 14 and spent time in the French Foreign Legion in Africa before arriving in Port Lincoln in 1961 aboard a Swedish merchant ship.
Melville senior died when the boy was 13, leaving his family in genteel poverty, from which, seven years later, in 1839, the young Melville escaped as cabin boy on a merchant ship bound for Liverpool.
"After he attacked an Armenian merchant ship, the East India Company pulled strings to have him arrested on the grounds that it was not a legitimate target for a privateer -- even though it was sailing under a French pass, " he explained.
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He failed the 11-plus - something which still grates even today - and attended Ellesmere Port Secondary Modern before joining the Merchant Navy, where he worked as a ship's steward during the last days of the great ocean liners.
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