Another small vessel was being intercepted Thursday night with just a few people aboard, the officials said.

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About 500 passengers on a ferry from Ireland to France spent the night anchored off Cherbourg in north-west France after the vessel failed to dock.

BBC: Snow moves north as forecasters issue ice warning

Six years later DeGeorge and a business associate, Paul Ebeling, were aboard a 57-foot racing vessel off the coast of Genoa, Italy one dark night when the boat hit a submerged object and sank.

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On that winter's night more than a year ago, Captain Schettino was trying to show off his vessel and his seamanship by sailing desperately close to the shore, reports the BBC's Rome correspondent Alan Johnston.

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But I was forced to admit that of the two glasses we used to taste it the joker and a delicate, tulip shaped glass made by Spiegelau, though not the one having its debut that night the beer certainly tasted more aromatic in the latter, more refined vessel.

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But one thing, for example, that it's done is - when it is sailing at night, it has rigged up its lights in such a way that it looks like a cargo vessel rather than an aircraft carrier.

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The crew of the Coast Guard MH-60J helicopter CG 6007, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, nominated by the United States of America, for rescuing, at night, in blowing snow and sub-zero temperatures, all five crew members from a stranded fishing vessel, in Alaska, in February 2011.

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