31.   The Senate Armed Services Committee has proposed more money for the New Attack Submarine and extra funding for new surface ships, including the next generation of aircraft carriers.

32.   Under this design, a large bell-shaped vessel is lowered from a surface ship and hooks into the hatch on a sunken submarine.

33.   A U.S. surface ship equipped with underwater listening devices also was in the area, though much farther away.

34.   Coast Guard surface ships searched for the plane through the night.

35.   Earlier Monday, a crewman who tracks surface ships admitted he violated orders requiring him to report ships nearby.

36.   Eventually other classes of surface ships -- and perhaps submarines, too -- would be built with the electric drive, he said.

37.   He promised that the state will finance the construction of several new submarines and surface ships.

38.   It also makes it the largest supplier of non-nuclear surface ships for the U.S. Navy.

39.   It is not unusual for the Navy to take civilians aboard for a demonstration ride on a submarine or surface ship.

40.   The Axis powers used submarines for the task because of Allied attacks on surface ships.