1.   A big ship is firing monotonously off to our right.

2.   A ship can fire its rockets to create enough gravity to allow venting, which uses up precious fuel.

3.   Allied ships could fire on any vessels that refused to comply, first as a warning, and then to disable, violators.

4.   In the hit movie Independence Day, an alien ship fired a blue ray at the Empire State Building that leveled the skyscraper and most of New York City.

5.   South Korean ships fired on and hit a North Korean torpedo boat, causing it to catch fire and sink.

6.   The capture was embarrassment for the Navy because the crew gave up the ship without firing a shot.

7.   The shooting had died down, although crippled ships still fired potshots once in a while.

8.   Two escort ships fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at other Iraqi targets.

9.   Rear Adm. Sergei Skalinov told the Interfax news agency that the Russian ship fired the shots on Sunday near the southern Kuril Island of Tanfilyev.

10.   A Vietnamese crewman was killed when a Kiribati patrol ship fired on a South Korean tuna boat in waters off the central Pacific island republic, officials said Saturday.