The 2, 200-passenger liner also was meant to double as a troop transport ship if war broke out.
In 1916, the Germans sunk the French transport ship Provence II, killing 930.
The nine U.S. Navy ships include three guided missile cruisers, three frigates, an amphibious transport ship, two dock landing ships and a research vessel.
But before her most recent reincarnation as a divers' paradise, the historic vessel cruised the waves as a U.S. transport ship during World War II.
The USS Dubuque, an amphibious transport dock ship, was due to deploy June 1 to the South Pacific on a humanitarian mission, according to Cmdr.
The French transport ministry has said that the ship Ile de Sein, which is equipped with a remotely-operated submarine, will leave Cape Verde on 21 April to begin retrieving parts of the wreckage.
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The group has created a floating campus -- dubbed the Scholar Ship -- which will transport 700 students around the world as they complete their studies.
The future for the other type of cargo ship bulk carriers, which transport coal, iron ore, grain and so forth is less rosy.
Additionally, this will apparently force the company to ship these larger factory yields via sea transport rather than air, which also slows things down.
Once a price in something, somewhere, falls below the price of that same thing elsewhere plus transport costs, then people will buy it and ship it and sell it.
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Backup and archiving remain the biggest applications for digital magnetic tape although it is also used as a physical data transport device (as the old saying goes, you can ship more data on tape in a delivery truck over a shorter time than you can send electronically).
On Thursday, a Russian cargo ship escaped pirates who attacked the ship with machine guns and grenade launchers, Russia's Transport Ministry said.
The Oslo Pass, that provides access to 33 museums as well as free travel on public transport, also offers a free lunch cruise on board a traditional wooden sailing ship.
The sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship this month has once again shone a spotlight on the overall safety of transport.
The crew of the rescue tugboat Nan Hai Jiu 197, Nan Hai Rescue Bureau, Ministry of Transport, China, nominated by China, for saving four out of five persons aboard a small cargo ship that had sunk in severe weather, in January 2011.
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The ship, which is undergoing restoration at the Hamilton Dock in Titanic quarter in Belfast was used to transport first and second class passengers to Titanic at the French port of Cherbourg.
The ship is owned by Cyprus' Diataxis Shipping Company and is operated by a Russian shipping company, FESCO Transport Group.
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