In January 2002, the IDF commandeered the Iranian Karine A weapons ship en route to Gaza.
We also have a ship en route to the Marianas Islands to assist as needed.
Meanwhile, the United States said it was tracking a Russian military cargo ship en route to Syria that is carrying weapons, ammunition and a small number of Russian troops.
Lloyd's List describes that occasion as a "near miss" and says the ship's route would have been less than 200m away from the point of collision on Friday's voyage.
And this being the only ship on the route, none of the ports were swamped with thousands of other cruise passengers arriving for the day, which is often the case in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Alaska.
April will also see a raft of Titanic cruises, including an excursion from New York to the site of the catastrophe, and a voyage retracing the ship's route from Southampton (though the plan is for the vessel to make it all the way to New York this time).
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On Monday, Costa Crociere's chief executive, Pier Luigi Foschi, told reporters the company didn't authorize Mr. Schettino to deviate from the ship's official route.
It is worth noting both that Winthrop made the speech containing this quote to his Puritan brethren on board a ship fleeing Europe en route to Massachusetts and that the quote harkens directly to the Sermon on the Mount.
When Somali Muslim pirates raided the Alabama on Wednesday, the U.S.-flagged cargo ship was cruising the Indian Ocean en route to Mombassa.
Another ship, the Carnival Legend, is en route from Tampa, Florida, to bring additional food and water to the Triumph on Monday afternoon, the Coast Guard said.
On ocean crossings to Europe in 1887 and 1896, Ryder spent most of the time en route sketching the sea from the ship's deck, alighting only briefly in his destination, London, before heading home again.
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That required him to override the route that had been programmed into his ship's navigation system, according to Costa Crociere.
It's an expedition that's been in the planning stages for years, Sir Ranulph says on the bridge of the ship, while looking at a map of his route.
In March 2010, pirates hijacked the ship, which had been transporting mechanical equipment and was en route to the United Arab Emirates, the European Union Naval Force Somalia reported at the time.
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There was a precedent supporting the Europeans: American green laws insist that ships docking locally be double hulled, even though that forces ship owners to pay for unwanted double hulls on international waters en route to American ports.
Four hours after the initial crack, Gavignet's first Route du Rhum ended as he climbed aboard a Greek cargo ship that would carry him to safety.
The ship had reached its destination of Cozumel, Mexico, and was en route back home when a fire broke out in the engine room early Sunday, and then power was lost.
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Thirty-two Burmese nationals have been rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan navy after the wooden vessel began to sink en route to Australia.
But at time of the disaster the skipper had plotted a shorter than normal route, in effect cutting a corner, and it was the ship's cook who was on watch in the bridge.
They included 35, 000 cruise ship visitors, and more than 300, 000 people travelling on the regular Amsterdam ferry route.
's ill-fated 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage: a British voyage that set out to establish a sailing route through the Arctic and ended with the untimely, mysterious deaths of its two ship crews.
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Local gas prices in the Midwest will go up when Keystone allows Canadian companies to ship their carbon-intense clean energy to global markets through Texas, while putting the environment along the route at great risk.
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