1.   During one of its voyages, the Golden Hind under the command of Francis Drake intercepted the ship off the coast of California and ransacked it.

2.   In January Israelis intercepted a ship carrying weapons for the Palestinians that were traced to Iran.

3.   In those cases, a Coast Guard boat intercepts the ship before it reaches port and conducts a search.

4.   Ships have been intercepted leaving Iraq carrying wheat and beans.

5.   The Bahamas were particularly popular sites because pirates could intercept Spanish ships loaded with plunder from Central America.

6.   Police and Navy officials in Catania, a port town in eastern Sicily, intercepted the ship overnight and took it in tow when it entered Italian waters.

7.   Powell said he was pleased Israel had intercepted the ship last week.

8.   Gradeck said the ship had been intercepted several days earlier for violating U.N. sanctions against Iraq.

9.   Israel last week intercepted a ship on the Red Sea carrying weapons allegedly intended for the Palestinian Authority.

10.   Israeli naval commandos intercepted a ship carrying the rockets, ammunition and other arms last Thursday and immediately accused the Palestinians.