The news came as the specialist shipping newspaper Lloyd's List said the captured ship, the Karine A, may belong to an Iraqi national.

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Nelson, when the young captain of a small ship, boarded and captured two far more powerful enemy ships.

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He was captured after a struggle on his ship, Maersk Alabama.

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Arguably the most popular island, Nuku Hiva is where author Herman Melville jumped out of a whaling ship in 1842 and was captured by the local Taipa tribe.

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The United States test launched a captured German V 2 rocket from the deck of a ship in 1947.

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In Enniskillen, St Patrick had an eventful arrival - landing on an island by helicopter before being captured by Vikings who brought him ashore on their long ship.

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It captured the imagination of the public, which followed the final days of "the ghost ship" in media reports and tracked its progress on Canadian and U.S. Coast Guard websites.

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