| 11. | That sinking was also the impetus behind a renewed effort to avoid attacking neutral ships by U-boats.
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| 12. | As well as neutral ships, the warring parties had vessels at Narvik, riding anchor in the same port.
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| 13. | However, during warfare the forcible boarding of supposedly neutral ships is commonplace in the imposition of a blockade.
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| 14. | If all went to plan, the captains of the neutral ships transporting goods to France and Spain made fortunes.
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| 15. | Furthermore, the U-boats also sank neutral ships in the blockade area, either intentionally or because identification was difficult from underwater.
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| 16. | At about 21 : 30 he sighted the lights of a neutral ship on No . 8 boat's port beam.
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| 17. | Britain mined international waters to prevent any ships from entering entire sections of ocean, causing danger to even neutral ships.
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| 18. | The first part of the rule, however, makes neutral ships inviolable and so is the core of the freedom-of-navigation doctrine.
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| 19. | The French government in Versailles proposed that French goods be carried on neutral ships from the United Provinces or Spain.
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| 20. | On 12 Oct 1941 the neutral ship Corte Real was stopped for inspection by U-83 80 miles west of Lisbon.
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