The MV Almezaan had already been attacked and captured twice by Somali pirates over the past few years.
MV Sovetskaya Latviya, a ship that sailed under the name MS Aakre in the 1930s.
Named by ANCA for F. Boving, third officer on MV Thala Dan in 1965, who assisted in a hydrographic survey in the vicinity.
The freighter MV Port Fairy, carrying ammunition, was ultimately bound for Australia and New Zealand via the Panama canal.
MV Yulius Fuchik, a Soviet and later Russian barge carrier featured in Red Storm Rising
In 1978, he appeared as Captain Gordon Trigg, captain of the Washington State ferry MV Klickitat, in NBC's two-hour Emergency! episode "The Most Deadly Passage".
Kirkby Shoal was discovered and charted in 1962 during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay and approaches by d'A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) on the MV Thala Dan, led by Phillip Law.
MV Lituya, shuttle ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway System
MV Rocknes (1975) is a 3,645 ton bulk carrier launched on 1 November 1975, by Appledore Shipbuilders, in Appledore, North Devon, United Kingdom.
MV Nicola, (A.K.A. Spirit of Lax Kw' Alaams) owned by BC Ferries, but operated by Lax Kw'alaams First Nations.
For a time in 1962, DSC 402 was dispatched to Picton to shunt the NZR road/rail ferry MV Aramoana until newly constructed Addington DSC 418 arrived to take over, allowing 402 to return north.
Currently, OM Ships operates one ship cruising all around the world, the MV Logos Hope.
MV Rena, a container ship that ran aground off New Zealand in 2011, resulting in an oil spill
Large cruise ships are occasional visitors, with the largest visitor to date being the MV Royal Princess (30,277 GRT).
Shuster was the presiding judge at the Royal Commission of Enquiry into the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika.
MV Royal Daffodil, a Mersey ferry built as MV Overchurch and renamed in 1998
MV Bingera (1935), a 954 ton motor vessel, built by W Denny & Bros., Dumbarton in 1935.
On the heels of this release, the band was again invited to perform at Terrastock in June 2008, this time in Louisville, Kentucky, resulting in one of their most memorable shows, playing alongside such notable psychedelic groups as MV & EE, Robert Schneider's Thee American Revolution, Damon & Naomi, and Kawabata Makoto.
After getting lost in the North Sea again, the Trotters eventually find their way back to England by following the MV Norland, a ferry which goes from Zeebrugge to Hull.
In 2003, the land frontier was closed for a day by Spain on the grounds that a visiting cruise liner, the MV Aurora, was affected by contagious food poisoning.
It was unable to be re-floated and was broken up on site, not far from where the MV Pasha Bulker ran aground many years later on 8 June 2007.
The first vessels of the UK's ETV fleet were introduced in 1994 following the recommendations of Lord Donaldson's report 'Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas' published in May 1994 following the MV Braer oil spill of off the coast of Shetland, Scotland.
MV Vacationland, a ferry that crossed the Northumberland Strait between New Brunswick and PEI, Canada
MV Western Belle, a British commercial passenger ship built in 1935 and laid up since 2008
MV Empire Windrush, a ship, noted for and synonymous with the first immigration of Jamaican people to England, named for the river