But it turns out there are plenty of ships in this price range, mostly mega-yachts, what many in the industry refers to as ships over 130 feet long (the longest stretch over 500 feet).
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Indeed, the demand for ships and munitions, created by the long war against France, boosted British industry.
Bellies full, we drove back down PR-184 following the falling sun toward the Caribbean Sea, cruising along the coast to reach Ponce, a colonial port town where long ago pirates raided Spanish ships coming into the harbour.
It was the first battle between two ironclad ships and marked the end of the millennia-long era of wooden warships.
Digital bits can be, ought to be, regulated the way ships are on the ocean: Ships are free to go anywhere, as long as they don't bump into other ships.
Long ago, in the days before passenger ships featured climbing walls, ice rinks, on-board zip lines and nonstop gastronomic gorging sessions, stately ocean liners plied the transatlantic route between London and New York.
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That afternoon we dived the 150.8m-long, 5, 440-tonne SMS Karlsruhe, another of the wrecked German ships.
Not much oil was spilled, but the message was clear: so long as there are ships, and humans steer them, accidents will happen, and may be huge ones.
One of the ships the Anastasis, is 522 feet long and has three operating theatres, a dental clinic and an X-ray unit and it has a ward with 38 beds.
It wasn't long before he joined one of the many pirate ships broadcasting off the coast of England and thus began a radio career that has taken him across the country - including presenting on the legendary Radio Luxembourg and Radio Caroline.
The number of TEUs (the large containers on ships: twenty-foot equivalent units) moving through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is up 23% in May year-over-year and up 26% since the beginning of the year.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Istanbul says Mr Arinc has made it clear that there will be long-term consequences over what happened on the aid ships.
The largest animals on Earth, blue whales can grow up to 90 feet long, still a fraction of the size of cargo ships that can stretch 1, 200 feet.
What is more, prior to the Gulf War, the RRF ships had no crews on board leading to a long activation time in an emergency.
"This horrible situation involving the Carnival Triumph is just the latest example in a long string of serious and troubling incidents involving cruise ships, " said Sen.
To achieve such a performance, the ships will rely not on their mighty jet engines, nor on being long and thin, but on a revolutionary design to slice through the waves and float above the ocean's drag.
Because the island stretches across the primary shipping lane that was used by explorers sailing to the New World, most ships headed from Europe to North America spotted it along their long journey.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of ships make the journey from one part of the world to another in a long chain of events that bring them from one shore to another.
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Not long ago only upscale lines and expedition ships ventured to Asia, but over the last decade the largest cruise lines have been steadily sending bigger ships here, including Princess Cruises and Royal Caribbean International.
The result is that lower interest rates favor long term projects with distant cash flows, such as ships, office buildings, and housing.
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Unilever, an Anglo-Dutch centenarian conglomerate, has long thought of itself as a fleet of ships, each of them independent, but with the entire fleet being stronger than the sum of its parts.
In fact, her living quarters on the mile-long Ringling Brothers train that transports the show around the country is sufficiently diminutive that when she finishes books she ships them home.
But if a call at Port Stanley is going to lead to the cruise ships being banned from Argentinean ports, and perhaps eventually ports in other South American countries, how long will they keep Port Stanley on their itineraries?
Cooler climates like the North Sea are less likely to be troubled, unless ships come from similar waters such as the east coast of the US. They conclude that very long trips are less likely to be a cause for concern.
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