Franklin Delano Roosevelt's uncle John was one of the founders of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club in 1885, and his 48-foot Icicle is still on display in the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, N.

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In addition, if U.N. sanctions are lifted, the naval maritime intercept program to monitor oil smuggling out of Iraq would not be needed.

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Its depths hold anywhere from 6, 000 to 8, 000 shipwrecks, according to Lawrence Babits, professor emeritus and retired director of maritime studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.

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