Ships come to a stop by gradually reducing speed when they're at a certain distance from their destination. Eventually, the crew throws down an anchor.

His neighbor, Jostein Jorgensen, said he was roused at around 5 a.m. by the sound of a ship heading at full speed toward land ...

“I’m having steering issues. I need traffic stopped ... Steamships like the Denebola — built in 1973 as a high-speed container ship for the shipping company Sea-Land but later converted ...

On the open ocean, though, there are often no such landmarks. This is why seafaring ships can't measure their speeds in miles or kilometers per hour. In order to determine speed and distance while ...