"She's a beautiful ship, a name that everybody immediately recognizes, " Doughty added.

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On the JDS Kongo, one of four Aegis electronic warfare destroyers (two more are under construction) that will be fitted with Japan's first antiballistic missile system, elderly ladies cooled themselves with paper fans bearing the ship's name.

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The Gorch Fock was built in 1958 and replaced an earlier ship of the same name.

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We will forever honor their memory and forever remember the name of their ship -- Challenger.

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What better tribute to the first explorer on the Moon, than to name a research ship after him?

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Arniston got its name from a British ship that was wrecked offshore in 1815.

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What is the name of the cruise ship that ran aground near the Italian island of Giglio on January 13, 2012?

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China's ship does not yet have a name.

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Niantic Labs, after all, takes its name from a 120-foot sailing ship that arrived in San Francisco 160 years ago for the Gold Rush.

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"It's great, it shows me exactly where the ship is, what its course is, how fast it's going and what its name is, " he said.

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The vicissitudes of show biz, especially its artistic uncertainties, social demands and precarious economics, are vividly brought out in A Ship Without A Sail (the title is from a Rodgers and Hart song by the same name).

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