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One became a merchant ship navigator in 1918.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
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.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Undersea sabotage was the first to be activated: starting in 2023, a growing number of incidents involving merchant ships cutting or damaging undersea power and communications cables and gas pipelines in the North and Baltic Seas were linked to Russia.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 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
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
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.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Undersea sabotage was the first to be activated: starting in 2023, a growing number of incidents involving merchant ships cutting or damaging undersea power and communications cables and gas pipelines in the North and Baltic Seas were linked to Russia.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 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
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“Merchant ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merchant%20ship. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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