U.S. ship fires at pirates
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U.S. military officials said Wednesday that a Navy ship recently fired on pirates who overtook a Danish vessel off Somalia's coast.
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"The treasure in this case is the wreck itself."  A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.'When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years,' said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. 'I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters.' Read more
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 13--Crews on two U.S. Coast Guard vessels fired machine guns Tuesday on Lake Superior off Two Harbors as part of live-fire training exercises that some people mistakenly believed were on hold.
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Two US navy sailors shot dead and another critically injured in Gulf state.
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How two ships went to sea to fight the whalers ... and ended up fighting each other
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American officials claim 'serious provocation' from Iranian warships at sea
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Pirates hijacked a cargo ship delivering U.N. food aid to northeastern Somalia on Sunday &#151; at least the third time since 2005 that a vessel contracted to the United Nations has been hijacked off the country's dangerous coast.
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'Filipino Monkey' strikes again Analysis Those readers who follow the non-IT'n'Paris news will be aware that in recent days a group of US warships almost fired on fast boats operated by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. This was after hearing radio transmissions in which the Iranians appeared to threaten some form of attack.â¦
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Pirate attacks have increased sharply, especially in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime watchdog agency said Thursday.
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Suspected Somali pirates attacked an Italian-owned cargo ship on Monday as it headed for Kenya's Mombasa port through one of the world's most dangerous waterways, a regional maritime group said.
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A U.S. Navy warship fired on and sank two skiffs used by pirates Sunday to hijack a merchant vessel off the coast of Somalia, U.S. officials said Monday.
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A replica of Horatio Nelson's warship HMS Victory is being painstakingly assembled - so it can be set on fire.
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Two U.S. Navy sailors were killed and a third was critically wounded early Monday in a shooting incident on a U.S. military base in Bahrain, the U.S. Navy said.
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Three Somali police speedboats and a U.S. military vessel were headed Monday toward a U.N.-chartered cargo ship hijacked by pirates, a senior police official said. Piracy has been rampant off the Somali coast.
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The U.S. Navy's oldest ship in full active service embarks on its last major maneuvers
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American officials claim 'serious provocation' from Iranian vessels at sea
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Terrorist attacks on tankers carrying liquefied natural gas into a U.S. port could trigger a fire that could burn the skin of people a mile away and cause "major injuries and significant structural damage" within about a third of a mile, according to a government study released yesterday.