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Over the course of its full deployment from September 2024 through May 2025, the carrier strike group had a friendly fire incident in December — when a Navy destroyer launched missiles at two F-18s — a collision with a merchant ship in February and lost two F-18s, one in April and another in May.
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Anti-submarine warfare is constantly plagued with issues like false positives when things like whales or merchant ships are detected.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
A number of ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea, with 2,000-year-old Roman terracotta jars found in the remains of a ship found off the coast of Italy in 2023, a Greek merchant ship discovered in 2018 off the Bulgarian coast and dozens more.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
American merchant ships, Hopper notes, had already developed a significant trade with Oman by the mid-nineteenth century.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
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Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Anti-submarine warfare is constantly plagued with issues like false positives when things like whales or merchant ships are detected.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
A number of ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea, with 2,000-year-old Roman terracotta jars found in the remains of a ship found off the coast of Italy in 2023, a Greek merchant ship discovered in 2018 off the Bulgarian coast and dozens more.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
American merchant ships, Hopper notes, had already developed a significant trade with Oman by the mid-nineteenth century.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for merchant ship
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“Merchant ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merchant%20ship. Accessed 22 Dec. 2025.
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