Ship

A ship is a large buoyant watercraft. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size, shape and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas,rivers,and oceans for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing, entertainment, public safety, and warfare. Historically, a "ship" was a sailing vessel with at least three square-rigged masts and a full bowsprit.

In armed conflict and in daily life, ships have become an integral part of modern commercial and military systems. Fishing boats are used by millions of fishermen throughout the world. Military forces operate vessels for naval warfare and to transport and support forces ashore. Commercial vessels, nearly 35,000 in number, carried 7.4 billion tons of cargo in 2007. As of 2011, there are about 104,304 ships with IMO numbers in the world.

Ships were always a key in history's great explorations and scientific and technological development. Navigators such as Zheng He spread such inventions as the compass and gunpowder. Ships have been used for such purposes as colonization and the slave trade, and have served scientific, cultural, and humanitarian needs. After the 16th century, new crops that had come from and to the Americas via the European seafarers significantly contributed to the world population growth.Ship transport has shaped the world's economy into today's energy-intensive pattern.

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First-ever child porn suspect on FBI list pleads guilty

Atlantic City 17 Oct 2018

HELENA, Mont ... "Leave me alone. I know I have a problem," Rosser responded, according to the court files. That July 2017 encounter led to Rosser's arrest and his guilty plea earlier this month in U.S ... Bryan C ... Prosecutors declined to comment ... Rosser underwent plastic surgery and liposuction and used assumed names and fake passports to travel to Europe, Spain and France before taking a cruise ship back to Thailand, DeBrota said ... ....

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Child porn suspect arrested in Montana went from John Mellencamp's band to FBI Most Wanted list

Ravalli Republic 17 Oct 2018

When the bus pulled into Billings, the passenger confronted Eric Franklin Rosser — a former keyboardist for John Mellencamp — who had $20,000 taped to his legs, another $50,000 in his bag and $1,000 worth of marijuana, according to court records ... Rosser underwent plastic surgery and liposuction and used assumed names and fake passports to travel to Europe, Spain and France before taking a cruise ship back to Thailand, DeBrota said ... ....

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Starlink: Battle for Atlas Review - Endless Space

Gamespot 16 Oct 2018

The controls for each ship are the same, but there are minor differences between them; a light ship is better for maneuvering through a delicate situation on the ground, for instance, while a heavier ship can take more hits during battles ... The Dreadnaughts are particularly fun to take down--every time you take out one of their mounted guns a swarm ......

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It’s not docking! Incredible moment a massive tanker ship crashes into a dock after failing to weigh anchor

This is Money 16 Oct 2018

... ship crashes into a dock after failing to weigh its anchor and takes out a chunk of the harbour....

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No Brexit deal could snarl major ports, hitting exports

San Francisco Chronicle 16 Oct 2018

A queue of trucks parked parallel to a giant white ferry rumbles forward and one-by-one the drivers make a sharp left turn onto a ramp that takes them up and into the belly of the ship bound for the English port of Harwich. Each truck takes just minutes to get on board, waved forward by a dock worker ... ....

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This Week is Ridiculous For New Games

Kotaku 16 Oct 2018

a proper Pokémon game on the Switch and Fallout 76 launching in the same week should encourage a few to take early annual leave ... Obra Dinn is about the self-titled merchant ship, which left for the Orient from London with over 200 tonnes of goods ... The player takes the place of an insurance investigator for the East India trading company, scouring over the ship to piece together what happened....

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Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers

Hastings Tribune 16 Oct 2018

Although the Rose Society recently canceled its agreement to maintain the roses there, the Fort Smith Board of Directors recently voted unanimously to take up maintenance of the park ... Navy, taking computer programming classes at night. Before long she was a computer systems analyst for the Naval Ship Engineering Center. In 1970, Montague became the first person to successfully develop a computer-generated ship design system....

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A REVIEW: Fun stays the course in ‘Old Man & The Old Moon

Crossville Chronicle 16 Oct 2018

Creativity is the hallmark of the production of The Old Man and The Old Moon currently playing in the Adventure Theater of the Cumberland County Playhouse. The story, like the boat it features, carries you as part of the audience to unexpected destinations ... Ships move among tempestuous seas on one screen while action takes place on the different levels of the stage ... The moon wanes. Tides are confused ... Meanwhile, the world is in torment....

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Kid-friendly black light maze added to River Valley Haunted Walk

Lewiston Sun Journal 16 Oct 2018

Frankenstein’s lab. Called Chroma-Chaos, this display is a new feature of Wicked — the River Valley Haunted Walk, which takes place Oct. 19-20 and 26-27 ... --> ... “Wicked is not kid-friendly ... Then the artist known as Mr ... Walkers will go through the laser swamp, added last year, on their way to another big draw this year, the pirate ship. He said the goal is to attract 1,000 people to the Haunted Walk, which takes about 20 minutes ... ....

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Bronx students learn about conservation right at home

Bronx Times 16 Oct 2018

Tapia told the that during the two-week excursion, the crew or group of students he was with did everything from conducting science experiments testing water samples to picking up trash that fell from ships passing by the oceanside park. “Before taking this trip I had not considered studying bio-chemistry or going to a school of forestry, so this opened all of that up to me,” said the Cardinal Hayes senior....

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Close to the Sun Interview – Creating An Alternate History Story With A Unique Horror Twist

GamingBolt 16 Oct 2018

Take a look below ... Tesla is an important man in our game, but it’s his power that allows him to confront the laws of physics he loves so much, all leading to ‘the accident’ that takes place before the game kicks off and Rose comes aboard the huge ship Elios. Our story takes place in an era where technology was slow ... What were some of your influences in designing the Ship which serves as the game’s setting?....

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Amy Iverson: After you die, what happens to all your online accounts?

Deseret News 16 Oct 2018

If you are among those who have mapped out what happens to your possessions after you pass, congratulations. A 2017 caring.com survey found only four in ten U.S. adults have basic planning documents like wills or living trusts ... After sending all the documentation to msrecord@microsoft.com, it only takes a couple of days for Microsoft to authenticate the request and ship out the data DVD ... ....

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Starlink: Battle for Atlas review-in-progress — Toys-to-life with toys that are fun

Venture Beat 15 Oct 2018

I don’t think that’s happening with these Starlink ships any time soon ... If you have two of three ships and a couple of sets of weapons, you have more than just two or three ships — you have a number of different configurations. I enjoy taking the wings from Fox McCloud’s Arwing and putting them on Judge’s Neptune ship, giving this tank of a fighter a different appearance....

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