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The Houthis attack a merchant ship off Yemen’s coast.
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Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, New York Times, 12 June 2024
The merchant ship was carrying taconite, a low-grade iron ore, the Coast Guard said on X.
Half of the ship’s 22-person crew was removed from the vessel after the incident, according to a news release.
—Fabiana Chaparro, CNN, 9 June 2024
The navy policed colonial waters, protecting merchant shipping, especially after the Battle of Lagos, a devastating loss in 1693 of a convoy of merchant ships in the Mediterranean at the hands of the French.
—Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
The shipwrecks were the remains of large, 200-feet-long wooden ships built by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a wartime organization that led a push to build merchant ships to bolster the American war effort in 1917, then abandoned after the war’s end, according to the commission.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, New York Times, 12 June 2024
The merchant ship was carrying taconite, a low-grade iron ore, the Coast Guard said on X.
Half of the ship’s 22-person crew was removed from the vessel after the incident, according to a news release.
—Fabiana Chaparro, CNN, 9 June 2024
The navy policed colonial waters, protecting merchant shipping, especially after the Battle of Lagos, a devastating loss in 1693 of a convoy of merchant ships in the Mediterranean at the hands of the French.
—Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
The shipwrecks were the remains of large, 200-feet-long wooden ships built by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a wartime organization that led a push to build merchant ships to bolster the American war effort in 1917, then abandoned after the war’s end, according to the commission.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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