Arniston got its name from a British ship that was wrecked offshore in 1815.
Three crewman have been taken hostage after pirates attacked a British ship off the west coast of Africa.
Another British ship, RFA Fort George, was also involved in the joint operation between the Royal Navy and the US Coast Guard.
And I think when you talked about -- when you talked the British ship, I believe you said to evacuate its people -- well, we have evacuated Americans.
The British ship Sir Galahad is bringing in more than 200 tons of food, water, medical supplies and all sorts of blankets and other humanitarian relief that is needed.
Marine archaeologists working on a wreck off the coast of Sicily have discovered five large cannon from a British ship, believed to have sunk in a major battle with Spanish galleons.
BBC: British cannon from Battle of Cape Passaro found off Sicily
On Tuesday, the Russian navy reported that a Russian and a British ship came to the aid of a Danish ship that was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
The team from the University of Rennes in France say they found the crystal while examining the wreck of a British ship sunk off the island of Alderney - in the English Channel - in 1592.
In 1852, the British troop ship Birkenhead sank off Simon's Bay, South Africa, with the loss of 485 lives.
In November, 1861, Seward faced his first test when Charles Wilkes, an intemperate Union captain, fired upon an unarmed British mail ship, the R.
The Canadians are so concerned about foot-and-mouth that they recently turned back a British military ship over fears that mud on the wheels of vehicles on board could be harbouring the disease.
As everyone knows the British luxury passenger ship on its maiden voyage struck an iceberg sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912.
It is widely thought that the unruffled pace of life in Tahiti prompted sailors on the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty to mutiny against their commanding officer, William Bligh, who was accused of mistreating his crew, in April 1789.
The design has been licensed from David Giles, a British aeronautical engineer turned ship designer.
On Monday, pirates seized a British-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden.
CNN: As piracy surges, U.S. warns of dangers off Somali coast
And the Germans badly want the British aboard the euro-ship, in part as counter-ballast to the French.
The incident happened on the MV Tombarra, a British-registered car carrying ship.
Colonial rivalry and conflict then ensued, and, in the face of a British attack, the Germans abandoned the port of Kigoma, scuttling their ship, the Graf Goetzen, to stop it getting into British hands.
During a recent phone conversation, Mr. Thompson, who was in Miami and about to leave to perform on a cruise ship as it toured the British Virgin Islands, said he chose Mr. Miller to produce for the sound he captures in his home studio.
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But travel organisation Abta (the Association of British Travel Agents) has arranged for the ship to sail.
Part of an international row over Russia arming Syria, the ship was forced to turn back after a British company withdrew its insurance coverage due to the nature of the cargo.
In 1784, immediately after the British returned home, the U.S. sent a ship named the Empress of China to Canton (today called Guangzhou).
Senior State Counselor Vincent Monda said prosecutors need to bring in witnesses from the British navy, Yemeni victims and seamen from the Danish cargo ship MV Powerful, which the suspects are charged with trying to commandeer.
The Home Office said the ship was intercepted by UK authorities after heading back to British waters following an aborted attempt to dock at Tripoli.
Played by Matt Smith, he journeys through "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" in his aptly-named ship, the TARDIS -- which looks like a blue British police call box on the outside, and is as iconographic a vehicle as the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon or DeLorean.
In 1940, the troop ship Lancastria was sunk by enemy fire after having taken on board British troops who were evacuating from France.
Also Monday, the Standard Club, a British marine insurer, said that it had stopped coverage for Russian operator Femco's cargo ship, MV Alaed, amid allegations that it is carrying weapons to the Syrian government.
Last summer, when I first met Prof Siegert, I was too polite to remind him of what had happened to another British science project, the Beagle 2 mission to Mars, the spacecraft named after the ship that had carried Charles Darwin.
For example, Britain's defence secretary during the Falklands war, John Nott, revealed in his memoirs that France had been Britain's staunchest ally, providing information that helped to render the Exocet anti-ship missiles used by Argentina ineffective, and supplying Mirage and Super-Etendard fighters for British Harrier pilots to pit themselves against in training.
The British and Russians used helicopters to counterattack the pirates, who fired machine guns and twice tried to seize the Danish ship, according to a navy spokesman.
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