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  2. Ship abandonment - Wikipedia

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    Ship abandonment can occur for a variety of reasons and cannot be defined in a single way. [1] Most cases are of ships abandoned by owners because of economic hardship or economic issues, [ 1 ] for example because it becomes less expensive than continuing to operate, paying debts, port fees, crew wages, etc.

  3. Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility - Wikipedia

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    A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.

  4. Desertion - Wikipedia

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    Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission ... ship, or aircraft. ... The Marine Corps showed 1,603 Marines in desertion status in ...

  5. Cargo ship owners can disappear and leave their crews ... - AOL

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    One ship has been stuck for 18 months. Cargo ship owners can disappear and leave their crews unpaid and starving. 10 mariners have been stranded off Kenya for 18 months. Skip to main content

  6. Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge ...

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    Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent working without pay on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner at ports along the Red Sea. By day he paced ...

  7. Ship abandoned in Red Sea faces unknown fate, sources say - AOL

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    LONDON (Reuters) -A cargo ship abandoned four days ago in the Gulf of Aden after it was hit by missiles fired by Yemen's Houthis is still floating despite taking in water, and could be towed to ...

  8. USS Astoria (CA-34) - Wikipedia

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    Ninety minutes later, Captain Frederick C. Sherman ordered the ship abandoned. Once rescue operations were completed, and Lexington ' s end was hastened by torpedoes from Phelps , TF 17 began a slow retirement from the Coral Sea, having suffered heavy losses but also having inflicted a decisive strategic defeat on the Japanese by barring the ...

  9. Naval boarding - Wikipedia

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    A United States Marine Corps visit, board, search, and seizure team during a boarding training exercise on the USS Miguel Keith in 2023. Boarding is used in wartime as a way to seize a vessel without destroying it, or to remove its cargo (people or goods) before it is destroyed.