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The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck.
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Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
In February, the carrier collided with a merchant ship near Port Said, Egypt, damaging the carrier and the commercial ship.
—Claire Moses, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The group has carried out over 100 attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea since the war in Gaza errupted in October 2023 after the Hamas attack on Israel.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Henson was a lifelong explorer, traveling first on merchant ships at the age of 12 to ports around the world.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
In February, the carrier collided with a merchant ship near Port Said, Egypt, damaging the carrier and the commercial ship.
—Claire Moses, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
The group has carried out over 100 attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea since the war in Gaza errupted in October 2023 after the Hamas attack on Israel.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Henson was a lifelong explorer, traveling first on merchant ships at the age of 12 to ports around the world.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Merchant ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merchant%20ship. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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