Drygalski led the first German South Polar expedition with the ship Gauss to explore the unknown area of Antarctica lying south of the Kerguelen Islands.

Discovered in February 1902 by the German Antarctic Expedition under Erich von Drygalski, who named it as his expedition ship in honour of Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Surface forces have been used to provide defense zones around naval and merchant ship formations, air to furnish area surveillance, and mines for protection of limited areas.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

He has a ship that can be rolled up like a tablecloth when not used, he relies on two talking ravens to gather intelligence, and he consults the talking head of a dwarf for prophecy ( he carries it around long since detached from its body ) ( Section 7 ).

Alcaeus rarely used metaphor or simile and yet he had a fondness for the allegory of the storm-tossed ship of state.

It represented the Argo, the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology.

* The Ark, a ship used as a Scottish Marine Station, now the basis of the University Marine Biological Station Millport

* The Ark ( English ship ), a ship used in founding the Province of Maryland

Two-dimensional ( wind speed and wind direction ) sonic anemometers are used in applications such as weather stations, ship navigation, wind turbines, aviation and weather buoys.

* A signal from an engine order telegraph, a communications device used on a ship or submarine

An illicit fire at a wrong position would be used to direct a ship against shoals or beaches, so that its cargo could be looted after the ship sank or ran aground.

* Sick bay, nautical term for the location in a ship that is used for medical purposes

Bronze is still commonly used in ship propellers and submerged bearings.

The ironclad, first used in the American Civil War, resistant to cannons, soon made the wooden ship obsolete.

With his opponents defeated, Captain Gould on Audacious used the spring on his cable to transfer fire to Spartiate, the next French ship in line.

* The MV Balmoral is a passenger ship used for pleasure cruises in the United Kingdom

The ship contained Xylene, a clear, flammable liquid commonly used as a solvent in rubber, leather and the printing industries.

It also includes the cost of a ship, which are not used in a regular game of Cities and Knights, but presumably this is to cater for players who have combined Cities and Knights and Seafarers.

He rides the shining dwarf-made boar Gullinbursti and possesses the ship Skíðblaðnir which always has a favorable breeze and can be folded together and carried in a pouch when it is not being used.

As well, semaphore flags can be used to communicate on an ad hoc basis from ship to ship over short distances.

At this time a further design evolved, reintroducing oars to create the galley frigate such as the Charles Galley of 1676 which was rated as a 32-gun fifth rate but also had a bank of 40 oars set below the upper deck which could be used to propel the ship in the absence of a favourable wind.

In 1993, Garth Brooks, who had criticized music stores which sold used CDs since it led to a loss in royalty payments, persuaded Capitol Records not to ship his August 1993 album In Pieces to stores which engaged in this practice.

The expedition had hoped a ship would come by to take them back east, but instead endured a torturous winter of rain and cold, then returned east the way they came.

The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.

Also during this time Almagro established a friendship with Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who during the time was in charge of Acla, with the intent of making a ship with the materials of the Espinosa expedition and later finish it in the " Great South Sea " as the Pacific Ocean first became known to the Spanish.

The British expedition commander, prompted by the loss of the gunboat, decided to abandon Jan Mayen until the following spring and radioed for a rescue ship.

* 1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette ( 1878 ) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

The Spanish ship San Pedro and two other vessels in expedition commanded by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi on January 9, discovered an island at 10 ° N where they went ashore and traded with natives and named it " Los Barbudos " ( possibly Mejit ).

An 1879 – 1881 expedition commanded by US naval officer George W. DeLong ended tragically when their ship the USS Jeanette, was crushed by ice.

They were eventually able to walk to their expedition ship MV Benjamin Bowring and boarded it on August 4, 1982 at position 80: 31N 00: 59W.

His insistence during the expedition on Royal Navy formalities had made for uneasy relations with the merchant navy contingent, many of whom departed for home with the first relief ship in March 1903.

This expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache using the ship the Belgica, became the first expedition to winter in Antarctica.

In 1918, Amundsen began an expedition with a new ship Maud, which was to last until 1925.

In January 1922, during a later expedition, Shackleton died on board ship while moored in King Edward Cove, South Georgia.

* 1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

Challenger was named after HMS Challenger, a British corvette that was the command ship for the Challenger Expedition, a pioneering global marine research expedition undertaken from 1872 through 1876.

* The Southern Cross Expedition 1898-1900, an expedition to Antarctica led by Carsten Borchgrevink in the ship Southern Cross

A second expedition, one ship of about 40 men, led by Leif's brother Thorvald, sets out in the autumn after Leif's return and stays over three winters at the new base ( Leifsbúðir (- budir ), meaning Leif's temporary shelters ), exploring the west coast of the new land in the first summer, and the east coast in the second, running aground and losing the ship's keel on a headland they christen Keel Point ( Kjalarnes ).

Shortly afterwards, a ship captained by two Icelanders arrives in Greenland, and Freydis, daughter of Eric the Red, persuades them to join her in an expedition to Vinland.

* February 20 – Explorer James Weddell's expedition to Antarctica reaches latitude 74 ° 15 ' S and longitude 34 ° 16 ' 45 " W: the southernmost position any ship had reached before, a record that will hold for more than 80 years.

* September 6 – The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

She jumped aboard the ship soon after the expedition set out, invoking the protection of Artemis, whose virgin priestess she was.

Apollonius of Rhodes, on the other hand, claims Jason would not allow a woman on the ship because she would cause strife on the otherwise all-male expedition ( Argonautica 1. 769-73 ).