Professor Meier also says the possibility of ships being able to move through newly unfrozen parts of the Arctic could lead to losses of natural resources.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Some pirates catch fish instead of ships.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

"We were flying over the channel and I looked down and there were thousands and thousands of ships,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

"Now we are in the southwestern part of Cyprus Sea and we have a small flotilla of ships here and we are waiting for other ships."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

In light of threats from the Israelis to block the flotilla of ships, Zehra Ozturk says she and her fellow pro-Palestinian activists from Turkey are not thinking about a blockade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

A group of small states on the coast of North Africa was seizing American ships and holding their crews hostage.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Pirate ships often flew the flag of a friendly country as they sailed toward the ship they planned to rob.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Darwin sent much of what he collected back to England on other ships the Beagle met along the way.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

British ships,with the help of planes launched from an aircraft carrier, destroyed a powerful German battleship, the Bismarck on May 27,1941.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

Millions of immigrants coming to America passed the statue as ships carried them to the immigration processing center on Ellis Island.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

For the most part, the Confederacy depended on privately owned ships to get goods in and out of the South.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The Barbary States, as they were known, demanded payment for the release of hostages and safe passage of American ships.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Some were known as "privateers." They were given special letters by the British government to attack the ships of enemy nations.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

One of Blackbeard's ships, Queen Anne's Revenge, was discovered under seven meters of water near Beaufort fifteen years ago.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

They were only two men among more than one hundred who left the ships with huge amounts of money.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

About twenty thousand ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year on their way to the Suez Canal.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26