The word "ships" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "ships" in any context when referring to a vessel or vessels, e.g. "The ships sailed across the sea to the distant land."
Often the smugglers just hand the boat over to the migrants, to avoid arrest by Italian ships patrolling the Mediterranean.
The Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich I can only compare to an immense moving street of ships, large and small, something suggestive to the Parisian mind of an aquatic Rue de Rivoli.
There are rumours of shipwrecks buried hundreds of metres below where I was pitched, and tales of Vikings turning their ships in a nearby bay to redouble their efforts at invading Britain.
It was begun in 1743 but, with the new steam-powered ships needing less attention, the dockyard fell into disuse and closed in 1889.
Such antiquated policy in the treatment of our neighbours stands in disproportionate contrast to the "unintended" incursions of naval ships, armed to the teeth with every piece of radar and satellite equipment under the sun, who have suffered no cost or damage as a result of their action.
The dredging is to make way for the ships as they weave their way through the Great Barrier Reef – a wondrous icon of the blue planet that doubles as the world's most iconic coal shipping lane.
As he blows up warehouses and ships in spectacular yet ahistorical fashion, viewers may wonder: is this film trying to suggest Moses was a terrorist?
Environmentalists are concerned that ships navigating reef passageways – many of which are narrower than the English Channel – will run aground, as a Chinese vessel did in 2010, tearing a two-mile gash into the coral and spilling several tonnes of oil.
They also collected some more money near one of their ships in port on some open days.
Pleasure ships sailed from Marseille to watch the bombardment and the beach landings.
Since the scheme is so restricted, thousands of other Syrians have independently made their way to the UK, and at great personal cost – paying out huge sums to traffickers, smuggling themselves in lorries from Calais, or risking their lives in unseaworthy ships across the Mediterranean.
