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...from his post 'due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead his crew and carry out essential missions and taskings,' according to a statement by U.S. Seventh Fleet command. Six members of Hejl's crew have allegedly been involved in crimes committed around the ship's homeport, including a break-in, a carjacking and attempted marijuana smuggling. 'There had been some minor incidents from time to time before, but never anything like house-breaking, or incidents in such frequent succession,' says Yoshiaki Yasuda, liaison to the Navy's Yokosuka base for the Kanagawa prefectural government, which, along...
...stern is sitting upright on the bottom...one huge piece with a lot of wreckage around," he said. Viewing through video cameras, the crew spotted a crane and the rudder but the propeller was buried and the homeport markings of Southampton had rusted off the stern...
...Turkish Cypriots own no ports and have to depend on relatively rare shipments by submarine from Turkey. To add to the ports they control, the Greek Cypriots have built a new one at Boghaz, north of Famagusta. Last month an Egyptian freighter with its name and homeport covered with burlap docked at Boghaz and unloaded five Soviet-made torpedo boats. Early this month 32 Soviet tanks arrived at Boghaz...
Most glorious chapter of U. S. shipping history was the one written by the clipperships, fleetest commercial vessels ever whipped over the seas by the winds. Homeport for the majority of clippers was Baltimore. Last week as a late afternoon sun was sending its slanting rays over Chesapeake Bay a steam vessel cast off from a new Baltimore pier, nosed into midchannel. After stopping at Norfolk she cleared for Havre and Hamburg. Official civic celebration marked the sailing for she was City of Baltimore, first transatlantic passenger ship to be documented out of Baltimore since the clippers, first sailing...
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