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USS TICONDEROGA DECOMMISSIONED
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Friends, family members, plankowners and former crew members said farewell to USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), as she was decommissioned in a traditional Navy ceremony at her homeport, Naval Station Pascagoula, on 30 September.
With current crew members manning the rails just prior to the ship's demanning, R/Adm. Charles Bush, program executive officer for Integrated Warfare Systems on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, told the cr...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; The ship is rumbling and stopping, stopping and rumbling, vibrating like an old junker car. Crew members get bounced against the steel walls of the forecastle as they look out at the huge cracks the Polar Star is making in the fast ice - sea ice that forms and remains fast along the coast. Six
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SHIP'S BELL RINGS OUT FROM NAMESAKE CITY.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: JANIE BRYANT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT NORFOLK -- Some were teenagers who had never been on a ship before when they first boarded the Norfolk. Fifty years later, they gathered again, silver-haired and slower, listening for a sound they didn't think they would hear again - the ship's bell. It rang
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 "Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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Hospital ship preps for a novel mission: 'Comfort' will travel to Latin America on humanitarian visit.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
; Byline: Robert Little May 31--The hospital ship USNS Comfort leaves its Baltimore home today without the usual war or natural disaster on its itinerary, but preparing nonetheless for one of the busiest and most complicated missions of its 20-year service in the U.S. Navy. Instead of rushing to a
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 "Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)")
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Analysis: West African authorities trying to locate ship carrying more than 100 children destined to work as slave laborers in Gabon
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 Analysis: West African authorities trying to locate ship carrying more than 100 children destined to work as slave laborers in Gabon Host: LIANE HANSEN Time: 1:00-2:00 PM LIANE HANSEN, host: Authorities in the West African nation of Benin continue their wait today for a Nigerian flagship
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 "The Mercury (South Africa)")
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Focus on getting containers and oil off stranded container ship.(Network)
The Mercury (South Africa)
; At the weekend when this was written the salvage of the stranded container ship Safmarine Agulhas had reached the stage where salvors attention was focused on getting all containers and fuel oil off the ship in case the ship broke up, and hope was dwindling that the ship could still be saved. So
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Passengers Say Captain Abandoned Them;Cruise Ship Entertainers, Staff Cited as Heroes of Rescue Efforts
The Washington Post
; ... ashore to supervise rescue operations. "When I ordered, `abandon the ship,' it doesn't matter what time I leave," he told ABC News. "Abandon is for everybody. If some people like to stay, they can stay." A statement issued today by Epirotiki Lines, the shipping ...
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Restored and ready, ship sails for home.(Y)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: CATHERINE KOZAK MANTEO -- BY CATHERINE KOZAK THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT MANTEO - The most distinctive ship on the waterfront is back home. The Elizabeth II, its splendid multi colored paint job vivid against a gray sky, returned Tuesday to its homeport in Dough's Creek at Roanoke Island Festival
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Ship cargo has Greeks pondering
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ... Sudanese man named Essam Bakry al-Khalifa. "I am going to hand those documents to the Greek ambassador in Sudan," the official news agency SUNA quoted him as saying. The statement denied the ship was owned by a Sudanese company but provided no details on al-Khali ...
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Shaping it up to ship out
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Shaping it up to ship out Crew spends winter preparing carrier for the mission ahead By TOM HELD of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, January 29, 2001 The 447-foot Paul H. Townsend makes for an imposing winter hideaway, moored in the semi-secluded inner harbor of the Port of Milwaukee. An
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THE RUMPUS BEGINS: SHIP VS. ICE.(NEWS)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; The ship is rattling like a secondhand washing machine, levering up and down like an old playground seesaw and rumbling like thunder. That's to say nothing of the jerking, the jarring and the general vibrating. And we haven't even hit the fast ice yet. The Polar Star has been rumbling through
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