U.S. officials have said the ship is carrying attack helicopters and munitions from the port of Kaliningrad.
If a ship is under attack or getting approached by a suspicious craft then the crew call one of two mobile phones lying on the desk.
Royal Caribbean, the cruise-line company, announced a week after the attack that its Nordic Empress ship could no longer depart from New York because authorities had taken control of the port.
The families of heroic sailors who died when their ship came under German attack in World War II have gathered to remember them 70 years on.
The British Ministry of Defense said a British crew Tuesday had boarded a small boat that they believe was involved in an attack on a Danish-registered ship earlier that day.
Last month, U.K. authorities said a ship carrying Russian-refurbished attack helicopters to Syria turned back after its insurance cover was stripped.
The ship sank while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet in 1545, and was raised on 11 October 1982 after 437 years submerged.
The ship sank while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet in 1545, and was raised from the sea bed on 11 October 1982 after 437 years submerged in the Solent.
But his military career was ended abruptly when his left leg was blown off in an attack by Argentinian fighter planes on the landing ship, Sir Galahad.
The DDG 1000 is a multimission surface ship designed to provide advanced land attack capability and contribute to military dominance in the shallow coastal waters known as the littorals.
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The Voyager was loaded with high-octane fuel and ammunition when it was hit - the survivors of the attack worked with extraordinary bravery to save the ship and rescue their injured shipmates from the flames.
Richard Phillips reportedly offered himself as a hostage to the pirates during an attack Wednesday on the U.S.-flagged container ship Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean.
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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.
In 2009, an Italian cruise ship with 1, 500 people aboard fended off a pirate attack in the Indian Ocean far off the coast of Somalia.
The couple were treated in hospital following the attack, where Mrs Prior's bag was stolen, before they rejoined the ship to continue with the cruise.
The proposed plan would retire seven cruisers early, delay construction of the next large-deck amphibious warfare ship by one year, cancel the second Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) in 2014, delay construction of two smaller amphibious warfare ships, and reduce procurement of littoral combat ships by two and joint high speed vessels by eight.
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