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a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.

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Hovering above the scene, commandos in helicopters were poised with automatic rifles.
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In CDC-speak, the problem is filed under the vessel sanitation program (VSP).
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It turns out that a rising tide lifts all boats, including the rather leaky vessel carrying Kansas Republicans.
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The tests in the study assumed that the ship would displace about 9690-tons; the Zumwalt is a 15,500-ton vessel.
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Local mechanics pitched in to help mend the craft, but weeks into setting off the repairs wore thin and the vessel sprung a leak.
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This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
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The vessel escaped miraculously, with sails torn by shots from three Dutch vessels, which they took for one of their own.
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At one fell swoop on the field of Jena, the famed military monarchy of the great Frederick fell in pieces like a potter's vessel.
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The American losses were seven men wounded, none killed, and only slight damage to one vessel.
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