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But the sunk ship in November shows that North Africans are now risking the choppier winter seas.
ECONOMIST: Morocco
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The team from the University of Rennes in France say they found the crystal while examining the wreck of a British ship sunk off the island of Alderney - in the English Channel - in 1592.
BBC: 'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck
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In 1916, the Germans sunk the French transport ship Provence II, killing 930.
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In 1940, the troop ship Lancastria was sunk by enemy fire after having taken on board British troops who were evacuating from France.
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The crew of the rescue tugboat Nan Hai Jiu 197, Nan Hai Rescue Bureau, Ministry of Transport, China, nominated by China, for saving four out of five persons aboard a small cargo ship that had sunk in severe weather, in January 2011.
FORBES: Korean Ship Captain Honored for Extraordinary Bravery at Sea
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An Indian frigate battled a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, leaving the ship ablaze and likely sunk, the country's defense ministry reported.
CNN: Pirates collect $150 million in ransoms
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Marine archaeologists working on a wreck off the coast of Sicily have discovered five large cannon from a British ship, believed to have sunk in a major battle with Spanish galleons.
BBC: British cannon from Battle of Cape Passaro found off Sicily
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In 1985, one Greenpeace crew member died when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was blown up and sunk by French secret agents in Auckland harbor in New Zealand.
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His ship was torpedoed in the Channel and it sunk.
BBC: WWI generation
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Such was the Houston company's prowess that in 1972 the Central Intelligence Agency used a Global Marine ship, the Glomar Explorer, to recover pieces of a Russian submarine that had sunk in 17, 000 feet of water in the Pacific.
FORBES: GLOBAL MARINE The Water Is 12,000 Feet Deep