The ice on the deck of the " Titanic " is explained by Gardiner as ice from the rigging of both the " Titanic " and the mystery ship she hit.
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Talk of raising the mystery ship has been a sticking point between the two countries since it sank during a gunbattle with Japanese Coast Guard vessels on Dec . 22, 2001.
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Tokyo has yet to prove where the mystery ship came from or what it was doing off the Japanese coast when it ignored a Coast Guard order to stop for an inspection.
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Releasing night-vision video footage that depicted the mystery ship apparently firing a rocket at Japanese gunboats, coast guard officials said one Japanese ship was hit 132 times by gunfire during the encounter.
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Sergeyev then ordered the navy to send a " hydrographic vessel with more powerful equipment " to search for the mystery ship near the Kursk, " but this object was not found ."
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As Japan amassed new evidence Wednesday of North Korean backing for a mystery ship that traded shots with Japanese patrol boats before sinking this weekend, Pyongyang condemned the Japanese as a " smear campaign ."
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Japan dispatched a military reconnaissance plane early Wednesday to follow up on a mystery ship sighting, but called off the search later in the day after no suspicious vessel was spotted, Kyodo News agency reported.
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U-boats would dive at the sight of a naval warship, and the success of the Q-ships, or'mystery ships'- converted merchantmen with hidden guns-led to the building of these specialised naval vessels for the same purpose.
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Japan intercepted radio messages between North Korea and the mystery ship that sank after a fire-fight with the Japan Coast Guard, boosting the probability that the vessel came from the communist country, news reports said Wednesday.
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As Japan amassed new evidence Wednesday of North Korean backing for a mystery ship that traded shots with Japanese patrol boats before sinking this weekend, Pyongyang condemned the Japanese investigation as a " smear campaign ."
