The word "vessels" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a ship, boat, container, or any other craft that is used to transport people or goods. For example, "The port was filled with vessels of all sizes."
Other EU countries have responded to the call for help with two fixed-wing aircraft and three patrol vessels.
Libyan coastguards think smugglers could move three or four times as many migrants if they had more boats, but most only make a single trip, and new vessels are getting harder to find.
The docks are stupendous buildings, but what impressed me most were the splendid arrangements for unloading vessels, which came close up to the quays, and disembarked their cargoes into the shops as it were.
Refugee advocates criticised the amount of time that elapsed between spotting the boat and sending vessels to intercept it after the deaths were revealed.
One by one they came – vessels the size of tenement blocks – disgorging holidaymakers on to an esplanade dotted with little white buildings in scenes of exuberant commotion.
Related: Iranian navy fires warning shots at cargo ship in international waters in Gulf The talks began shortly after reports earlier on Thursday that Iranian Revolutionary guards had fired warning shots at a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Gulf, before vessels from the United Arab Emirates came to its aid.
"The tadpoles are bizarre-looking, transparent filter feeders – the blood vessels, gills, brain and gut are all visible through the body wall," Christopher Michaels with ZSL wrote in an EDGE blog.
Ukraine by comparison has at best 14,500 personnel, 10 naval vessels that are still perilously berthed at Sevastopol just up the bay from their Russian adversaries.
Thousands of migrants have died making the journey to Europe's southern borders over the last 20 years, often in dangerously overcrowded and unseaworthy vessels.
More than 2,500 people have died in the Mediterranean sea this year, victims of unscrupulous smugglers who pack inadequate vessels with hundreds of migrants, often fully expecting not to get the boat back again.
Several countries have laid claim to the islands, situated just north of Brunei, and the naval corridor is an important shipping route for Australian vessels.
