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miniboat, part of the Columbia River Maritime Museums miniboat program, has fetched up in an exotic location while on its way to Japan. This one, S/V Liberty, launched by students from Wy’east Middle School in Vancouver, Washington, in the spring, was off to an inauspicious start: It crash-landed. It was repaired and relaunched in July. This time, after over 100 days at sea, the Liberty landed 4,500 miles away on Nov. 4 on the Ailuk Atoll. Located in the Marshall Islands, the tiny a...

Marshall Islands police have found the Pacific nation’s largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll after drifting on the high seas. Attorney General Richard Hickson said the 5.5-metre (18-foot) fibreglass vessel was found at Ailuk atoll last week with 649 kilogrammes (1,430 pounds) of cocaine hidden in a compartment beneath the deck. The haul is estimated to be worth more than $80m, according to media reports. Hickson said the vessel most likely drifted...

Boat with 649kg of cocaine washes up in Marshall Islands AKIPRESS.COM - Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll. Its thought the vessel might have drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America, spending possibly months out at sea, BBC reports. The 649kg (1,430lb) of cocaine have an estimated street value of $80m (£61m). Drugs often wash ashore on the remote Pacific archipelago, but last weeks discovery se...

BBC News Published image captionOcean currents often bring debris - and drugs - to the Marshall Islands Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll. Its thought the vessel might have drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America, spending possibly months out at sea. Drugs often wash ashore on the remote Pacific archipelago, but last weeks discovery set a new record. Police said the drugs were incinerated on...

Updated 11:18 PM ET, Wed December 16, 2020 This December 15, 2020 photo shows a box filled with 2.2-pound (1-kg) bricks of cocaine found on a boat that washed up in the Marshall Islands. (CNN)A small, unassuming boat washed up on a remote island in the Pacific last week carrying no passengers -- but loaded with around 1,430 pounds (649 kg) of cocaine. The 18-foot (5.4-meter) fiberglass vessel was discovered on a beach at Ailuk Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a chain of coral atolls and volcani...

Ghost ship containing $80 million worth of cocaine washes up on Marshall Islands Investigations found the 18ft. fiberglass vessel carrying what turns out to be the Pacific nations largest-ever haul of cocaine December 17, 2020 09:06 GMT A ghost ship containing 1,430 pounds of cocaine worth about $80 million ( £ 58.9 million ) washed up on a beach in the remote atoll of Ailuk in the Marshall Islands last week. A local resident noticed the abandoned ship drifting along the shoreline. Other islan...

Cocaine ghost boat washes up in Marshall Islands BBC 17th December, 2020 03:49:27 Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll. Its thought the vessel might have drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America, spending possibly months out at sea. The 649kg (1,430lb) of cocaine have an estimated street value of $80m (£61m). Drugs often wash ashore on the remote Pacific archipelago, but last weeks discovery set a...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. Police on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific found the largest-ever haul in their nation’s history when they recovered around $80 million worth of cocaine from an abandoned boat that washed ashore. Police retrieved the 18-foot fiberglass boat at Ailuk atoll last week when local residents were unable to move the vessel, saying it was too heavy. A photo on December 15, 2020, shows Marshall Islands Police Cap...

Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll. It’s thought the vessel might have drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America, spending possibly months out at sea. The 649kg (1,430lb) of cocaine have an estimated street value of $80m (£61m). Drugs often wash ashore on the remote Pacific archipelago, but last week’s discovery set a new record. Police said the drugs were incinerated on Tuesday, apart f...