A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

In fifteen thirty-five, a ship carrying the Roman Catholic Bishop of Panama came upon the Galapagos accidentally.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

This week, tensions continued to rise over the sinking of a South Korean navy ship in March.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Captain Richard Phillips sounded a warning and the crew took positions in several parts of the ship.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

These two cannons,however, were on a part of the ship that could turn in a complete circle.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In a storm, the ship could be driven on to land and severely damaged or sunk.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

In sixteen twenty, the area was named by a Dutch ship captain, Cornelius Jacobsen Mey.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

And the pedestal was finished. In France,workers separated the statue into three hundred fifty pieces, put them on a ship and sent them across the ocean.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Mister Harrison had to develop a clock that was not affected by the movement of a ship on the ocean or changes in temperature or atmospheric pressure.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

He crossed the Pacific Ocean on a ship, and arrived in San Francisco.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

But they took the ship's captain hostage in a small boat.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

They are wildly motioning to a ship in the distance.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

It landed in the Pacific Ocean near a waiting ship.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Crew member Kenneth Leahey says working in the midst of the disaster meant the ship had a great impact.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

An arms expert said Monday he believed the ship was carrying weapons to Somalia, in contravention of a U.N.arms embargo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The Cheonan incident refers to the unexplained sinking of a South Korean navy ship in March.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

Some,like this Turkish man, spoke of the violence they witnessed when Israeli commandos came down on the main ship,a Turkish vessel, during the raid in the eastern Mediterranean.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says one of its boats,the Ady Gil, a sleek high-technology speed boat, was rammed and sliced in half by a Japanese ship,the Shonan Maru.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06