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too often those principles which give consistency, individuality, and form to the Northern character, which render it staunch, strong, and seaworthy, which bind it together as with iron, are drawn out, one by one, like the bolts of the ill-fitted vessel, and from the miserable, loosened fragments is formed that human anomaly -- a Northern man with Southern principles.
The pinnace, named Virginia of Sagadahoc, was apparently quite seaworthy, and crossed the Atlantic again successfully in 1609 as part of Sir Christopher Newport's nine vessel Third Supply mission to Jamestown.
She was purchased by Fjellstrand, a Norwegian ship building company who will retrofit the vessel and make her seaworthy once again.
Shackleton asked the expedition's carpenter, Harry McNish, if he could make the vessel more seaworthy.
The ship owner must provide a seaworthy vessel, but once the charterer accepts the vessel, the responsibility of seaworthiness is the charterer ’ s.
He chose this vessel because he considered her to be the least seaworthy ship in his command, and by showing his troops that he was willing to share their misery, he earned their devotion.
Replicas can range from authentically reconstructed, fully seaworthy ships, to ships of modern construction that give an impression of a historic vessel.

seaworthy and was
After about 5 months at sea and still remaining seaworthy, the Tigris was deliberately burnt in Djibouti, on April 3, 1978, as a protest against the wars raging on every side in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa.
He does not explicitly say that all 378 fought at Salamis (" All of these came to the war providing triremes ... The total number of ships ... was three hundred and seventy-eight "), and he also says that the Aeginetans " had other manned ships, but they guarded their own land with these and fought at Salamis with the thirty most seaworthy ".
The task of refitting The Caledonia, building and installing new engines and boilers and making her seaworthy and efficient in fuel consumption was a difficult process and Murdoch, although frequently suffering from fever and Rheumatism, directed this.
The kingdom simply lacked the money to make the entire fleet seaworthy, so it was decided in February that the heavy ships would remain laid up at Chatham.
For flying boats, having started initially with Curtiss H boats bought from the United States, a modified version with a new, more seaworthy hull, was designed by RNAS Commander John Porte at the Seaplane Experimental Station at Felixstowe, and these aircraft became known as the Felixstowe F. 1, Felixstowe F. 2, and Felixstowe F. 3, culminating in the Felixstowe F. 5 of 1918.
) worked day and night for months before a galleon was seaworthy.
He had been misinformed that the battleship Canopus sighted in the area was a relatively modern Queen-class ship, whereas it was a similar appearing, old and barely seaworthy Canopus-class battleship, but nonetheless had four guns and ten 6-inch guns.
He brought bad news for the Allies — whilst most of the Persian fleet was undergoing repairs, the Persians had detached 200 seaworthy ships to sail around the outer coast of Euboea, to block the escape route of the Allied fleet.
On return to Port Jackson, the Mermaid was found to be no longer seaworthy, and was replaced by the brig Bathurst.
The longboat was generally more seaworthy than the cutter, which had a fuller stern for such load-carrying work as laying out an anchor and cable.
The ship was built in Guayaquil and was the first seaworthy steamship built in both Ecuador and in all of South America.
The lateen sail was more maneuverable and speedier, while the square rig was clumsy but seaworthy.
The current 12-strong race fleet of Challenge 72-footers was developed from the Challenge 67s and was specifically designed to be strong, safe and seaworthy in even the worst conditions and to be self-sufficient for long periods at sea, with enough fuel and water to take their crews safely to a distant port.
This fleet was initially comprised nine seaworthy steamships, two sailing vessels, and 27 gunboats ( Ruderkanonenboote ).
The Army was left with a mixed bag of rickety ships that were barely seaworthy.
It was as if the men on board had suddenly abandoned a perfectly seaworthy ship in fear of something unknown.

seaworthy and by
* December 4 – The now-crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found ( still seaworthy ) by the British brig Dei Gratia.
By 1652, fewer than fifty ships were seaworthy and the deficiency had to be made good by arming merchantmen.
Fully aware that the U-boat might at any moment sink or be blown up by exploding demolition and scuttling charges, he braved the added danger of enemy gunfire to plunge through the conning tower hatch and, with his small party, exerted every effort to keep the ship afloat and to assist the succeeding and more fully equipped salvage parties in making the U-505 seaworthy for the long tow across the Atlantic to a U. S. port.
It is no longer seaworthy, having a hole in it caused by the feral cows using it as a rubbing post.
The Rum Line was extended to a 12-mile ( 19. 3 km ) limit by an act of the United States Congress on April 21, 1924, which made it harder for the smaller and less seaworthy craft to make the trip.
Manry extensively modified her himself for the voyage by adding a cabin and more seaworthy cockpit.
And so Belcher was tried by court-martial for abandoning the four seaworthy vessels, as were Resolutes captain, Henry Kellett ; Intrepid's commander, Francis Leopold McClintock ; and Pioneer's commander, Sherard Osborn.
Salmon argues that natural-language sentences that are representable as λ-converts of one another ( in the sense of Church's lambda-calculus ) are, although logically equivalent by λ-conversion, typically not strictly synonymous, i. e., they typically differ in semantic content — as for example " a is large and also a is seaworthy " and " a is a thing that is both large and seaworthy ".
The first seaworthy Assault Landing Craft ( ALC ), later renamed LCA, Landing Craft Assault, ordered built for the British Navy were by Thornycroft.
They are built by a wooden plank quite a length of a proportion to their breath size, which results them really seaworthy, could made discomforts because the passenger is obliged to stand up in the stern, as no seats are available for his accommodation, so tha if he was careless to a sharp-out, he runs considerable risk of being shot overboard when the stern is lifted by a wave, in which case he might not possible to survive unless he was a good swimmer.

seaworthy and San
As the vessels used for sportfishing became larger, faster, longer-ranged and more seaworthy, big-game species are now pursued on grounds ranging from 60 or 70 miles ' distance from port, such as the submarine canyons of the United States continental shelf, to hundreds of miles as in the case of the San Diego long range fishery, where large live-aboard vessels range far out into the Pacific searching for tuna schools.

seaworthy and made
The iron ballast keel represents more than half of this displacement making the Folkboat extremely stiff and seaworthy, and it is one of the smallest craft to have made regular ocean crossings and circumnavigations.

seaworthy and from
Viking ships varied from others of the period, being generally more seaworthy and lighter.
Trows were seaworthy, as with an added keel they could take 90 tons of salt from Droitwich to France across the English Channel.
Reacting at once, boats from nearby ships organised an evacuation and began loading the Dutch prisoners for transfer to more seaworthy vessels.
The ships then went to the neutral Dutch port of Batavia in what is now Indonesia, where Rogers underwent surgery to remove a musket ball from the roof of his mouth, and the expedition disposed of the less seaworthy of the two Spanish prizes.
Absent was another Dutch replica of a VOC ship ( a ' real ' seaworthy replica ), the Batavia, with its home port in Lelystad, not too far from Amsterdam.

seaworthy and under
In reality, the frigate disembarked under the authority of a general order which required ships that were subjected to loading delays and such but were otherwise seaworthy leave the harbor in order that they not be caught at anchor should the Spanish attempt an invasion.
These, along with his other designs, proved to be good seaworthy craft but he was under no illusions about their aesthetic appeal, once saying: " If you ever see a barrel or box with rudder and sails, it'll be one of my designs.

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