When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.

That these settlers survived at all is due in large measure to Captain John Smith, a pirate turned gentleman.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

* 1776 – Captain John Barry and the captures the Edward.

Nelson focused his flagship's fire on Spartiate, while Captain Thomas Louis in Minotaur attacked the unengaged Aquilon and Captain John Peyton in Defence joined the attack on Peuple Souverain.

* Flying Fat Albert, M2, Captain John Hecker USMC

His father was Captain John Kyd, who was lost at sea.

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

The next year Captain John MacBride established a British settlement at Port Egmont.

Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy ( Charlton ) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County, Maryland ( now Carroll County, Maryland ).

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

Another factor was the findings of the Palliser Expedition of 1857 to 1860, led by Captain John Palliser.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

Still other stories claim that a secret line of hereditary protectors keep the Grail, or that it was hidden by the Templars in Oak Island, Nova Scotia's famous " Money Pit ", while local folklore in Accokeek, Maryland says that it was brought to the town by a closeted priest aboard Captain John Smith's ship.

* John Walker, fictional character in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons ( eldest of the Walker children and Captain of the Swallow )

* John Walker, alter ego of U. S. Agent, a comic book hero, who is an ultra-patriotic crime fighter, formerly Super-Patriot and Captain America VI

John Dirks ' The Captain and the Kids ( February 29, 1976 )

Captain Bloodshot is a pint-sized pirate rival of John Silver's.

From 1946, Dirks ' son, John Dirks, gradually began doing more of the work on The Captain and the Kids.

John Dirks ' drawing shifted slightly towards a more square-formed line, though it maintained the original style until The Captain and the Kids ended its run in 1979.

The Captain was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and John Silver was voiced by Mel Blanc.

Captain John Charles Marshall together with Thomas Gilbert came to the islands in 1788.

Captain Manning was heard to scream, " If any of those bastard Huns come up, lads, hit ' em with an oar!

* 1666 – After the English defeat the Dutch, Captain John Manning seizes the island, which becomes known as Manning's Island.

Her first choice as navigator was Captain Harry Manning, who had been the captain of the, the ship that had brought Earhart back from Europe in 1928.

The site for the village was presented to the state by Captain Joseph Copley Burgess and the Plat of Manning was prepared and filed in Sumter County Courthouse.

( Captain Burgess had also donated land for the courthouse and jail in Manning.

* Sex Marches On-Jim Taylor, Col. Davis D. Davis, Sr., Davis D. Davis, Jr., Dean Manning and Police Captain Whitfield

It introduced three new characters: the Third Doctor's new companion, Jo Grant ( played by Katy Manning ); his archenemy, the Master ( Roger Delgado ); and Captain Mike Yates ( Richard Franklin ).

On the 25th Captain John Manning was given control of the fort, which was renamed Fort Albany ; Beverwyck was named Albany.

Manning struck up an immediate rapport with her co-stars, Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney ( The Brigadier ), John Levene ( Sergeant Benton ), Richard Franklin ( Captain Mike Yates ) and Roger Delgado ( the Master ).

Northup persuaded John Manning, an English sailor, to send a letter to his family telling them of his kidnapping and illegal enslavement.

Manning the defenses of Orleans, John of Dunois had watched the tightening English noose and took care to prepare the city for siege.

Manning contrasts the brutality of the institutional church with Jesus treatment of the adulterous woman of John 8: 1-11 and of his meeting of the widow of Nain ( Luke 7: 11-17 ).

In 1998, John T. Manning and colleagues reported the sex difference in digit ratios was present in two-year-old children and further developed the idea that the index was a marker of prenatal sex hormones.

* John Arthur Manning, Pioneering Broadcaster

It was named after South Carolina governor John Laurence Manning.

The city is named for John Laurence Manning, who was elected to both chambers in the General Assembly, and was chosen by the Assembly to serve as governor from 1852 to 1854.

Manning is represented in the South Carolina Senate by John C. Land III, who was born in Manning.

* John C. Land III, Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, elected to the state House of Representatives, lifelong resident of Manning, SC

James Manning Greer was a descendant of John Greer who arrived in Charleston aboard the ship The Falls in 1764.

The current mayor is Gary Manning, vice-mayor is John Coombs, and the other three city commissioners are John Finch, Jane Birdwell, and Dan Bloodworth.

It is interesting to note that while it is essentially an English surname, Manning has occasionally been used as a synonym of the Gaelic surname O ' Mannin and that, for example, Cornet John Manning of O ' Neill's dragons in King James II's Irish army, was an O ' Mannin.

* John F. Manning

Logan with his wife Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan, son John Alexander Logan, Jr. | Manning Alexander Logan and daughter Mary Elizabeth " Dollie " Logan in about 1870

Manning was born in St. John, New Brunswick and attended Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In 1993, Manning was again confronted by an example of intolerance by a Reform Party candidate, Toronto-area candidate John Beck, who made a series of anti-immigrant remarks in an interview with Excalibur, the York University student paper.

It was printed in London by Roy Manning Pike and Herbert John Hodgson, with illustrations by Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, Blair Hughes-Stanton and his wife Gertrude Hermes.

Members included Tennyson, Gladstone, W. K. Clifford, W. G. Ward, John Morley, Cardinal Manning, Archbishop Thomson, T. H. Huxley, Arthur Balfour, Leslie Stephen, and Sir William Gull.

After the election, Christine and Neil Hamilton appeared together on Have I Got News For You, an appearance that established her as a chat-show personality and she subsequently appeared on myriad programmes including her own ' Christine Hamilton Show ' on BBC Choice where she interviewed celebrities who had ' been through stormy waters ' of some kind, ranging from Jonathan Aitken to James Hewitt, from Bernard Manning to Ivana Trump, and from Paul Merson to John Fashanu.

Upon his death in 2010, UNESCO-IHE described him as a " towering figure and pioneer in hydrology " whilst the Chancellor of the NUI, Dr. Maurice Manning, described him as " that rare phenomenon in Irish life, a public intellectual whose life was devoted, without posture, to the public service .” Professor John Sweeney who was one of the scientists as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 described him as " perhaps one of the most important, prolific and distinguished scientists of the past generation.