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...hours, Irish air force planes and naval vessels had been keeping a close watch over the trawler Marita Anne. Finally, off the southwest coast of Ireland, two Irish navy corvettes, the Emer and Aisling, closed in on the 50-ft. vessel, firing four rounds of tracer bullets across its bows. On board, Irish authorities found seven tons of arms. The weaponry was apparently destined for the Irish Republican Army, the terrorist group that seeks to unite British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. Police arrested five men aboard the Marita Anne, including two believed to be I.R. A. members...
Gromyko's scheduled sessions with the American leaders were very nearly waylaid by a totally unexpected diplomatic incident in the far northern reaches of the remote Bering Sea. There, on Sept. 12, the Frieda K, a 101-ft. supply vessel with five Alaskans on board, accidentally strayed inside Soviet territorial waters and was seized by a Soviet border-patrol boat. The Americans, who were on a routine trip to carry supplies to a seismographic research vessel in the Bering Strait, were taken to the bleak Siberian outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched...
...days a Soviet Golf II-class submarine zigzagged erratically across the strategic Sea of Japan. Occasionally the vessel would dive, resurface and send off clouds of heavy smoke, while support ships waited near by. Finally an oceangoing Soviet tug took the obviously stricken sub in hand and began towing it at a snail's pace in the general direction of Vladivostok, headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. As the Japanese press closely followed the drama, defense officials in Tokyo quietly pondered a couple of minor mysteries: What was the warship, of a type capable of launching nuclear-tipped ballistic...
After the sub's eventual rescue, Japanese officials noted that the Golf II class dates back as far as 20 years, meaning that the mystery vessel could be one of the oldest-and perhaps most decrepit-in the Soviets' 127-sub Pacific Fleet. The presence of that formidable force has made the Sea of Japan a hub of subsurface activity and, not coincidentally, the scene of a growing number of underwater accidents. Last week's incident took place not far from where the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk collided with a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine in March...
...other booty. But then a crew member noticed the inscription inside the ring: "In memory of my belov'd brother, Capt. John Drew, drown'd 11 Jan. 1798, aged 47." The ring had belonged to Captain James Drew, who died just four months later when his own vessel, the De Braak, sank two miles from Lewes, Del., during a storm. This meant Amaral, 35, had proof that the wreck being explored was indeed the legendary British warship that preyed on the vessels of Napoleon's allies and when it went down, was reportedly loaded with gold bullion...