The word "vessel" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a container or a boat, as well as to describe someone or something with a strong emotional investment: The vessel of her sorrows was too much for her to bear.
Or try river cruise camping, where you sail by day in a small Skellig vessel and pitch your tent each night at campsites bordering the river.
Most will know that the vessel they are being herded into stands at best an even chance in the robust Mediterranean swell.
Guardian Australia understands that one of the other reports referred to the AFP by Pezzullo concerned the vessel holding 157 asylum seekers that was diverted to the Cocos islands in July.
It is possible to spot sloths and pink dolphins from the glass-walled comfort of a sleek vessel furnished with a barman called Robinson and a menu of rainforest delicacies (the giant river snails are a surprising highlight).
The vessel met up with bark canoes under the Sydney Harbour Bridge and a traditional smoking ceremony was carried out.
"We have a patrol vessel and other staff on site and I am being kept informed of the situation.
An army corporal, Jorge Rodriguez Contreras, and a civilian lawyer, Gloria Urrego were taken along with the general, but a soldier who piloted the vessel escaped and alerted authorities, the minister said.
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.
We're using her the way our daughters do – as a symbol, a vessel to contain our stories.
The more senior submariner allegedly told McNeilly that the French vessel "took a massive chunk out of the front of HMS Vanguard" and grazed the side of the boat.
The alarm over the unfolding disaster was raised shortly after 6am by fishing boats who noticed a vessel in trouble off the Lampedusa coast near Isola dei Conigli (Rabbits' Island).
