* Boat anchor: Retaining a part of a system that no longer has any use

After weathering three severe storms, the Kite Boat lost its sea anchor on Sunday 25 September, lashed by 70 km / h winds in seas up to 18 m high.

Details of Pytheas ’ voyage also serve as the backdrop for Chapter I of Poul Anderson ’ s science fiction novel, The Boat of a Million Years.

The Boat of a Million Years is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson first published in 1989 and nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel that same year.

* " Bill " ( Show Boat ), a song in the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat

Claims have been made for Manu Dibango's " Soul Makossa " ( 1972 ), Jerry Butler's " One Night Affair " ( 1972 ), the Hues Corporation's " Rock the Boat " ( 1973 ), George McCrae's " Rock Your Baby " ( 1974 ), and " Kung Fu Fighting " ( 1974 ) by Biddu and Carl Douglas.

The Navy had taken some small steps in remedying the landing craft situation with construction of the Pionierlandungsboot 39 ( Engineer Landing Boat 39 ), a self-propelled shallow-draft vessel which could carry 45 infantrymen, two light vehicles or 20 tons of cargo and land on an open beach, unloading via a pair of clamshell doors at the bow.

Waterbuses operate on rivers in some of the country's largest cities such as London ( London River Services and Thames Clippers ), Cardiff ( Cardiff Waterbus ) and Bristol ( Bristol Ferry Boat ).

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

As homeport to fifteen attack submarines and neighbor to a major submarine construction yard, General Dynamics ' Electric Boat Corporation, all Officer and Enlisted submariners with the exception of nuclear trained Electronics Technicians ( ETs ), Electrician's Mates ( EMs ), and Machinist Mates ( MMs ), will be stationed at Groton for training, on board an attack submarine or with a pre-commissioning crew for a new submarine.

There are features of operetta in Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat ( 1927 ), among others.

* " Ol ' Man River " ( From Show Boat ), recorded on January 11, 1928 in New York and released as Victor 21218-A and Victor 25249 with Bing Crosby on vocals.

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

The incongruous English term " flag catcher " seems to have been perpetrated and perpetuated by American Dragon Boat Association racers based in the state of Iowa, since the Chinese character doesn't translate to " catcher " but rather " puller " or " grabber ".

Boat people is a term that usually refers to refugees, illegal immigrants, or asylum seekers who emigrate in numbers in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made.

The first known person to use " down-low " in a homosexual context was George Hanna, who used the term in the 1930 song Boy in the Boat about lesbian women.

The term " nub " may also be used as an acronym for " New Underway Buddy " or " No Use to the Boat.

Kerry campaign operatives derided the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, creating the term " swiftboating ," to mean a type of ad hominem smear campaign.

No standardized English translation of this term exists, and " Boat People " is a commonly used translation, although it may be

The term " Boat Dwellers " was proposed by Dr. Lee Ho Yin of The University of Hong Kong in 1999, and it has been adopted by the Hong Kong Museum of History for its permanent exhibition.

To refer to covert operations, the Special Boat Service uses the term in the vernacular.

The term Cairo 52 refers to the fifty-two men who were arrested on May 11, 2001, aboard a floating gay nightclub called the Queen Boat, which was moored on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt.

Motor Gun Boat was a Royal Navy term for a small military vessel of the Second World War.

The term is derived from the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth ( formerly " Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ," or SBVT ) widely publicized, then discredited, campaign against 2004 US Presidential candidate John Kerry.

Since the political smear campaign conducted by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against John Kerry, the term " swiftboating " ( or " Swift-boating ", or " Swift Boating ") commonly refers to a harsh attack by a political opponent that is dishonest, personal and unfair.

The Swift Boat Veterans and media pundits objected to this use of the term to define a smear campaign.

The term " Swift Boat " itself refers to a class of US Navy vessel used during the Vietnam War.

Many Swift Boat veterans, " especially those who had nothing to do with the group that attacked Senator John Kerry ’ s military record in the 2004 election — want their good name back, and the good names of the men not lucky enough to come home alive ", expressed regret and dismay that the term " Swift boat " has come to represent a political attack and " political chicanery " against a member of a different party.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

The Riverside terracing, infamous for the fact that fans occupying it would turn their heads annually to watch The Boat Race pass, was replaced by what was officially named the ' Eric Miller Stand ', Eric Miller being a director of the club at the time.

In May 1948 Thomas and his family moved to his final home, the Boat House at Laugharne purchased for him at a cost of £ 2, 500 in April 1949 by Margaret Taylor, first wife of historian A. J. P. Taylor.

* A nickname for Burl Smith, a character on TV show The Love Boat.

Gavin MacLeod ( born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 ) is an American actor notable for playing Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.

MacLeod's role as Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show won him lasting fame, and two Golden Globe nominations, followed by another three nominations for his The Love Boat work.

Whale, wary of doing two horror films in a row and concerned that directing Dracula's Daughter could interfere with his plans for the remake of Show Boat, instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a novel called The Hangover Murders.

The Hoklo Boat people were the first to show interest in Macau as a trading centre for the southern provinces.

" Row, Row, Row Your Boat " is a well known children's round for 4 voices.

At one time there was even a group on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, known as the " Shire of Curragh Mor " ( anglicized Irish for " Big Boat "), and the shire's arms played on the Nimitz's ship's badge.

* " Waiting for the Love Boat " ( 1984 ) UK No. 53

** MGM's 1951 Show Boat is presented on television by NBC for the first time.

See the Mary Gordon Electric Boat for example.

In 2002, Electric Boat conducted preservation work on the world's first nuclear powered craft, USS Nautilus, preparing her for her berth at the U. S. Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut, where she now resides as a museum.

In the film, the last few lines of the song " Ol ' Man River " ( from Show Boat ) are sung by what sounds like a tenor, while the song was intended for bass Paul Robeson and sung in the original production by bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe.

Among MGM's most notable soundtrack albums were those of the films Good News, Easter Parade, Annie Get Your Gun, Singin ' in the Rain, Show Boat, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Gigi.

* The Henley Boat Races for the Women's and Lightweight crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Electric Boat gained a reputation for unscrupulous arms dealing in 1904-05, when it sold submarines to Japan's Imperial Japanese Navy and Russia's Imperial Russian Navy, who were then at war.

* Profile for General Dynamics and Electric Boat on corpwatch. org