For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

* USS William Badger ( 1861 ), an American Civil War Union supply ship and ship's tender

Runabouts can be used for racing, for pleasure activities like fishing and water skiing, or as a ship's tender for larger vessels.

She continued in service at Margate until the Second World War, when she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for service as a ship's tender in Chatham docks.

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Pinnace ( ship's boat ), a small, light boat propelled by oars or a sail, used as a tender to larger vessels during the Age of Sail.

The bridge tender had placed the lift span in the " raised " position in anticipation of the ship's passage, and motorists were sitting in their vehicles behind the warning gates waiting.

The bridge tender had placed the lift span in the " raised " position in anticipation of the ship's passage, and motorists were sitting in their vehicles behind the warning gates waiting.

*, a ship's tender in commission from 1917 to 1918

A ship's lifeboat ( shipboard ) | lifeboat, built of steel, rusting away in the wetlands of Folly Island, South Carolina, United States.

The character of the Doctor began his service on the USS Voyager as the standard Emergency Medical Hologram built into almost every newer Starfleet ship's sickbay.

* City Market ( built in 1876, oldest city market in North America, with an original ship's hull roof design )

Most of the ship's on-screen appearances result from computer-generated imagery, although Tony Meinenger built a model used in the series.

The band achieved some fame in South America with 1992's Cargo Tour, where it played a series of shows in port cities, performing from a stage built into their tour ship's hold.

Members of the Albaola Society based near Bilbao in the Basque region of Spain, after studying the ship's structural details believe that the ship may have been built by Basque shipwrights, either in the Basque lands or in what is now south-western France.

Miller was spotted by Lieutenant Commander Doir C. Johnson, the ship's communications officer, who ordered the powerfully built sailor to accompany him to the bridge to assist with moving the ship's Captain Mervyn Bennion, who had a gaping wound in his abdomen where he had apparently been hit by shrapnel.

The ship's components were built at the Starfleet Division of the San Francisco Navy Yards and assembled in orbit.

Several episodes, as well as the ship's dedication plaque, establish that the Enterprise was built at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in orbit around Mars.

It was built on the model of a market hall, using naval construction techniques, which gives the impression of an upside-down ship's hull.

* The ship's bell from the USS California, the only dreadnaught-type battleship built on the Pacific Coast.

The Normandie Hotel, which opened during 1942, is built in the stylized shape of Normandie the ship, and it includes the ship's original sign.

The ship's boilers were originally built to burn wood, but were converted to burn coal in 1839.

Before the lighthouse was built in 1898, two ship's lamps exhibiting fixed green lights were erected on a flagstaff at Port Alfred, but these lights later proved to be inadequate.

With respect to the glass-sphered ship's design, Aronofsky argued, " There is no reason a spaceship would be built like a giant truck in space.

Two contiguous sets were built, between them containing the entirety of the ship's interior, which provided several advantages to the cast and crew during filming.

Model of a Chola ( 200 – 848 CE ) ship's hull, built by the ASI, based on a wreck 19 miles off the coast of Poombuhar, displayed in a Museum in Tirunelveli.

And when questioned by ship's reporters about the separation, she said, `` I adore him, and he adores me ''.

Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.

These fragments typically feature lacunae or gaps that scholars fill with ' educated guesses ', including for example a " brilliant supplement " by Maurice Bowra in fr. 34, a hymn to the Dioscuri that includes a description of St Elmo's fire in the ship's rigging.

As an example, an iron or steel ship's hull may be protected by a zinc sacrificial anode, which will dissolve into the seawater and prevent the hull from being corroded.

Foley's attack was followed by Hood in Zealous, who also crossed the French line and successfully anchored next to Guerrier in the space Foley had intended, engaging the lead ship's bow from close range.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.

Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.

Whatever its origin, the fire spread rapidly though the ship's rigging, unchecked by the fire pumps aboard which had been smashed by British shot.

Kidd became captain, either the result of an election of the ship's crew or because of appointment by Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis.

However, a mulatto who escaped the destruction of Syn's previous ship stowed away in Clegg's ship and accused him before the crew ; Clegg quelled the potential mutiny by having the mulatto's tongue cut out, marooning him on a coral reef and violently killing Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who represented the crew in their wish to rescue the mulatto.

The letter is followed by a three-digit number ; the first digit indicates the NOAA " class " ( i. e., size ) of the vessel, which NOAA assigns based on the ship's gross tonnage and horsepower, while the next two digits combine with the first digit to create a unique three-digit identifying number for the ship.

The ship's captain placed him in a boarding house run by Quaker women.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

The eruption was also reported by a Bengali sea captain, who wrote of the event later, but who had not recorded it at the time in the ship's log.

Near Earth most of the ship's 1500 passengers are killed by meteors, and only two men and six women land in a lifeboat and become the ancestors of humanity.

Wrapped in scarlet cloth and drawn by three yoke of oxen that were caparisoned in white with the red cross of Saint George, the city's patron, it carried a crucifix so massive it took four men to step it in place, like a ship's mast.

* 1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O ' Kane ( the top American submarine captain of World War II ) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

It is a large flag, measuring 10 feet by 17 feet, heavily constructed and designed to be flown from a ship's mast.

In January 1913, before Terra Nova left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem Ulysses: " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ", and was erected as a permanent memorial on Observation Hill, overlooking Hut Point.

Other Enterprise crewmembers include the ship's first officer William Riker, played by director Jonathan Frakes.

The most effective regime implemented by Cook was his prohibition against the consumption of fat scrubbed from the ship's copper pans, then a common practice in the Navy.

De Lesseps therefore tried to increase revenues by interpreting the kind of net ton referred to in the second concession ( tonneau de capacité ) as meaning a ship's real freight capacity and not only the theoretical net tonnage of the Moorsom System introduced in Britain by the Merchant Shipping Act in 1854.