Not all ships completed the trip.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

All the ships were sent to battle. Finally,in fifteen ninety, Governor White returned to Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

There were not enough ships in the Union navy to blockade all of it.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The threat,made on December 31 in a message posted on an extremist Internet Web site, prompted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to elevate the risk for all U.S.military and commercial ships sailing through an area stretching from Somalia to the Persian Gulf.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04