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To begin, New York-based Travel Dynamics International, which specializes in small-ship cruises, is starting a series of North American trips in May aboard the Yorktown, which holds a cozy 138 passengers.

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Indeed, for not that much more money, small-ship cruisers like

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And between the hundreds of owner-operators and the real-life Captain Rons, finding a reliable small-ship company is a little more complicated than calling up one of the handful of mainstream cruise lines.

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But such a move could be considered an act of war, and might well invite retaliation by Iran's Revolutionary Guard — which sports its own small-ship navy.

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If you're planning ahead for a cruise with the kids, consider trading in shuffleboard lessons and card games for a small-ship expedition cruise.

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Her posture, her alertness, everything about her, now indicated that she was rather more than a small-ship pilot who'd been commanded to undertake a desperate mission of discovery by callous superiors.

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Veteran small-ship personnel in this war have shown themselves to be extremely clannish, at best, deriving their principal sense of security not from the strength of the fleet which they never see and rarely contact, but from their familiarity with and confidence in each other's capabilities.

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In the course of just four years, the Navy fought, embraced, and then completely corrupted the small-ship philosophy.

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That said, Variety Cruises, a family-owned small-ship line in Greece, is starting to market its weeklong Greek island and Red Sea cruises to North Americans and, while the fares are not as cheap as a Western Caribbean cruise on Carnival, most are a bargain considering the region and size of ship.

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The company's bread and butter is visiting iconic Greek fishing villages, Roman ruins, volcanic islands, Medieval towns and impossibly scenic and secluded beaches typically available only to small-ship cruises.

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