One woman hemorrhaged to death aboard the ship, the first reported death among the 3, 000 to 4, 000 refugees aboard the Nigerian freighter, which has been seeking a West African port of refuge for a week.
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The ship's Greek managers, Universe Maritime, held back from criticizing Madrid's decision to haul the ship as far away as possible from Galicia, rather than offering a port of refuge where the tanker might have been repaired and its cargo offloaded with a minimum of damage.
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Rooke could not venture within range of the Toulon forts nor risk attack from a superior force so far away from any port of refuge, he therefore turned back towards the Straits where the arrival of an English squadron under Cloudesley Shovell had put the Allies on a numerical equality with the French.
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With hope that someone has survived in the contaminated regions, one of the last American nuclear submarines, USS " Scorpion ", placed by its captain, Commander Dwight Towers, under Australian naval command, is ordered to sail north from its port of refuge in Melbourne ( Australia's southernmost major mainland city ) to contact whoever is sending the signal.
