Dating back to the 6th Century BC, the red-figure krater (a large vessel the ancient Greeks used to mix water and wine) shows in exquisite detail the death of Lycian king Sarpedon in the Trojan War.

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The drywell is a large steel pressure vessel that looks like a giant upside-down pear and holds the reactor and primary pumps, and the wetwell is a large toroidal vessel that looks like a donut.

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Undaunted by the colossal downpour, a large blue vessel, the Milford Mariner, cuts through the choppy waters until, after a while, the rain falters and stops.

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The catch was found in up to seven large buckets on their fishing vessel.

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The forward helm station of the supply vessel creates the large working deck and gives excellent visibility from the helm station.

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This is a large calcite crystal recovered from a vessel that went down off the coast of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, in Elizabethan times.

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That should help prevent the ludicrous situation in which large quantities of dead fish are thrown overboard because a vessel has reached the limit of its legal quota.

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That technique uses a magnetic field to hold large volumes of the same isotopes of hydrogen inside a doughnut-shaped vessel, called a tokamak.

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One of the large set-pieces of the year was the 1, 000-vessel river pageant, which was watched by an estimated one million people along the banks of the Thames.

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