The warships stopped at Boston to pick up Governor Winthrop.
Over the next several days two federal warships stopped the Tacony, but both failed to detect her raider status, either because they were looking for the Clarence or because they were simply unable to imagine the unexceptional craft as an enemy.
Last December, Spanish warships stopped a North Korean ship carrying Scud missiles to Yemen, but released it after Yemen protested "We are not saying which countries are being targeted, because it would not be politically wise," said an Asian diplomat, referring to the September naval exercise.
Today they said two dozen American warships had stopped to refuel in Aden since the Navy began using the facilities there in early 1999 -- double the 12 visits that officials had originally cited.
Chinese warships have stopped at Colombo on the way to Pakistan and to anti-pirate operations in the Gulf of Aden.In the eyes of some Indians, Colombo is part of a "string of pearls"—an American-coined phrase that suggests the deliberate construction of a network of Chinese built, owned or influenced ports that could threaten India.
Not just odd, but huge: When two Italian Navy warships eventually stopped the freighter, the Adam, off the Libyan coast on April 12 , 2013 agents found a terrified Syrian crew and 15 metric tons of hashish — a stash many multiples larger than Italian officials had ever seen.
The entire tenth class of the Japanese naval academy was aboard the ship, and was noted as the first Japanese warship to stop by Micronesian waters.
Any vessel approaching an American warship should be stopped and searched, even those of local contractors familiar to the Navy.
Until 1914 the established naval rules provided that warships could stop and search merchant vessels, but must safeguard their crews.
Both the Defense Department and the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain and patrols the Strait of Hormuz, responded to Admiral Sayyari's remarks in statements that suggested American warships would stop the Iranians if necessary.
