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Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered (AP)

FILE - This 1851 illustration shows the HMS Investigator on the north coast of Baring Island in the Arctic. Arctic archaeologists have found the ship that forged the final link in the Northwest Passage and was lost in the search for the Franklin expedition. The HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, is in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's Western Arctic. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Public Archives of Canada)AP – Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.


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Workers in NYC begin to dismantle ground zero ship (AP)

Archeologists, right, begin dismantling the remains of an 18th century ship at the World Trade Center construction site, Monday, July 26, 2010 in New York. The 32-foot piece of the vessel was found 20 feet below street level where workers are excavating for a parking garage. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP – Plank by plank, archeologists on Monday began the delicate process of dismantling a section of an 18th century ship that was found buried across the street from the World Trade Center site.


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Obama, Lee criticize North Korea on ship sinking (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks during his bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron, not shown, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Toronto, Saturday, June 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – President Barack Obama said Saturday that North Korea must be “held to account” for its alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, a tough statement of support for an ally, made at its leader’s side.


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BP: Ship fire halts oil capture in Gulf (AP)

Leaking oil is pictured during dispersant operations at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in this screen grab taken from a BP live video feed June 14, 2010. REUTERS/BP/HandoutAP – A bolt of lightning struck the ship capturing oil from the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, igniting a fire that halted containment efforts in another setback for the embattled company in its nearly two-month struggle to stop the spill, the company said.


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Israel remains defiant, seizes Gaza-bound aid ship (AP)

In this image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Force on Saturday, June 5, 2010, Israeli army and navy soldiers on boats are seen approaching the Gaza-bound 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie aid ship. Israeli forces seized the Gaza-bound aid vessel swiftly and without meeting resistance, preventing it from breaking a naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory days after a similar effort turned bloody. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces) AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE VIDEO PROVIDED BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE. NO SALES.AP – A defiant Israel enforced its 3-year-old blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, with naval commandos swiftly commandeering a Gaza-bound aid vessel carrying an Irish Nobel laureate and other activists and forcing it to head to an Israeli port instead.


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Israeli forces seize another Gaza-bound aid ship

Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel swiftly and without meeting resistance on Saturday, preventing it from breaking a naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory days after a similar effort turned bloody.

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Israeli naval commandos seize Gaza-bound aid ship (AP)

Israeli naval ship sails in the port of Ashdod, Israel, Saturday, June 5, 2010. The Israeli military says its forces have seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel, preventing it from breaking an Israeli maritime blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory. The military says its forces boarded the 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie cargo ship from the sea, not helicopters, and that they did not encounter resistance. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP – Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid vessel swiftly and without meeting resistance on Saturday, preventing it from breaking a naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory days after a similar effort turned bloody.


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