As the oligarchical element in the constitution developed, the more important functions of the ducal office were assigned to other officials, or to administrative boards, and he who had once been the pilot of the ship became little more than a figurehead.

The figurehead of the ship the ' Caledonia ', which foundered in September 1842, marks the grave in Morwenstow churchyard of five of the nine-man crew.

As with the stern ornamentation, the purpose of the figurehead was often to indicate the name of the ship in a non-literate society ( albeit in a sometimes very convoluted manner ); and always, in the case of naval ships, to demonstrate the wealth and might of the owner.

A large figurehead, being carved from massive wood and perched on the very foremost tip of the hull, adversely affected the sailing qualities of the ship.

The few extra feet of length added by the figurehead made the Imperator the longest ship in the world at the time of her launch.

The great prize of a maritime museum is a historic ship ( or a replica ) made accessible as a museum ship, but these are large and require a considerable budget to maintain, many museums preserve smaller or more fragile ships or partial ships within the museum buildings and most museums exhibit interesting pieces of ships ( such as a figurehead or cannon ), ship models, and miscellaneous small items like cutlery, uniforms, and so forth.

No ship named the Unicorn had ever been listed in the annals of the French navy, so Hergé instead took the name, and also figurehead, for Sir Francis Haddock's fictional vessel from a British frigate which had been active in the mid-18th century.

While facing complications like shark attacks, they discover a cutlass, a gold bejeweled cross, a strongbox of old documents, the figurehead of the ship and, to Captain Haddock's delight, a large supply of vintage Jamaican rum.

Collections of his portrait busts can be found at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Philosophical Society, and a ship figurehead of Peace, at the Independence Seaport Museum.

* Head rail: A curved rail that extends from the figurehead to the bow of a ship.

Author Hall Gleason described the clipper as follows: " Her figurehead was a life-like image of the father of ship building on the Mystic ... She made five passages from Boston to S. F., the fastest being 113 days and the slowest 152 days ; seven from N. Y. to S. F., fastest 117 and slowest 149 ; two from Liverpool in 150 and 115 days.

Local tradition has it that the original wooden man was a figurehead from a ship, placed there by Solomon Andrews, a wealthy Cardiff businessman.

The ship lucky enough to find Old Ammet's figure lashes it to its prow as a figurehead and is said to meet with great fortune.

" They keep a figurehead of " Black Mary ," or " our lady of chains " which was actually a statue from the bow of an ancient ship, and August tells the story of how a man by the name of Obadiah, who was a slave, found this figure.

According to Apollonius Rhodius, the figurehead of Jason's ship, the Argo, was built of oak from the sacred grove at Dodona and could speak the language of birds.

The second one, arguably the most famous shot of the film, is the closing frame, showing Christina standing as a silent figurehead at the bow of the ship bound for Spain.

Warned away from the Aboukir shoals by the grounded Culloden, Captain Benjamin Hallowell in Swiftsure passed the melee at the head of the line and aimed his ship at the French centre.

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.

Eventually, in honor of the studio's contributions to the war cause, the United States Government named a Liberty ship after the brothers ' father, Benjamin Warner, and Harry Warner was given the honor of christening the ship.

In the 1950s Harvard University economist Benjamin Chinitz predicted that containerization would benefit New York by allowing it to ship its industrial goods more cheaply to the Southern United States than other areas, but did not anticipate that containerization might make it cheaper to import such goods from abroad.

In 1888, in search of a better future for his family and himself, Benjamin made his way to Hamburg, Germany, and then took a ship to America.

Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, to Captain Benjamin Raffles ( d. June 1797 ) and Anne Raffles ( née Lyde ).

The residences are named after Horatio Nelson, John Constable, Benjamin Britten, Jeremiah Colman, Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Victory, Robert Kett, Sir Thomas Browne and the Paston family who wrote the Paston Letters.

In the aftermath, von Tempsky took his family via the ship ' Benjamin Heape ' across the Tasman to New Zealand, departing Melbourne on the 13th Feb 1862.

Generations later, Benjamin Chew's great-great-grandfather, John Chew ( 1587 – 1668 ), a successful merchant, arrived in Jamestown in 1622 on the ship Charitie ; he was granted of land in Charles River ( York ) County, Virginia.

* 1942, the Liberty ship, the Benjamin Chew, built and named in his honor.

He commissioned in 1871 for the Red Sea, and on the outward voyage the ship conducted studies of the water currents in the Straits of Gibraltar for William Benjamin Carpenter, a biologist who believed that density differences between water masses generated ocean currents.

An American naval officer, Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, arrives in Japan to take up his duties on a ship docked in Nagasaki.

Part of the original focus of seaQuest DSV also centered around the interpersonal relationships of the crew, such as Captain Bridger's, Lucas Wolenczak's, and Dr. Westphalen's loss of immediate family and their shared interest in science, as well as each other, and the " love-hate relationship " between Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg and Lieutenant Commander Katherine Hitchcock, recently divorced, now forced to serve together on the same ship.

Commander Benjamin Sisko helps the Cardassians capture the ship and its crew on the condition that the Defiant be returned to Starfleet and that Tom Riker not be executed.

At the end of Ashes of Victory, Honor pilots her intersystem yacht to prevent a missile strike launched by assassins against the Queen's spaceship, thereby saving Queen Elizabeth and Protector Benjamin, but not preventing the missile targeted on the ship containing the two star nation's prime ministers and other cabinet rank officials.

Roberts was born in Warrington, Lancashire, England, the son of Benjamin Roberts, an alcoholic blacksmith and ship plater, and Ann Everington, a seamstress.

Realizing his son had his heart set on seeing the large seagoing ships berthed at Baltimore and wanting to go to sea, his father compromised with the determined youth and arranged his son's apprenticeship with Captain Benjamin Folger, a master ship builder of Baltimore, a veteran of the American revolution having served aboard merchant ships, and as commander of the Felicity, the ship used in the capture of the notorious privateer ' Jack-o-the-Lantern '.

Benjamin Franklin suspended a mercury thermometer from a ship while travelling between the United States and Europe in his survey of the Gulf stream in the late eighteenth century.

On the morning of February 24, 1977, the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge on the James River near Hopewell was struck by an ocean-going tanker ship, severing State Route 156, a major commuter artery between Charles City County and Prince George County.

Eventually, in honor of studio contributions to the war cause, the United States Government would name a Liberty Ship after the brothers ' father, Benjamin Warner, and Warner would be the one who was given the honor to christen the ship during its first voyage.

As the ship rounded a bend in the channel of the James River at the confluence of the Appomattox River near City Point and began the approach to the Benjamin Harrison Bridge, the steering gear malfunctioned, and the pilot lost control of the ship.

Orion then rejoined the action further south than intended, firing on the fifth French ship Peuple Souverain and Admiral Blanquet's flagship Franklin.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

" Bonaparte later placed much the blame for the defeat on the wounded Admiral Blanquet, falsely accusing him of surrendering Franklin while his ship was undamaged.

Tonnant and Spartiate, both of which later fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, joined the Royal Navy under their old names while Franklin, considered to be " the finest two-decked ship in the world ", was renamed HMS Canopus.

This is accentuated by the weight of broadside of several of the French ships: Spartiate, Franklin, Orient, Tonnant and Guillaume Tell were each significantly larger than any individual British ship in the battle.

A Roman Catholic chaplain, Lieutenant Commander Joseph T. O ' Callahan, administering the last rites to an injured crewman aboard USS Franklin ( CV-13 ) | USS Franklin, after the ship was set afire by a Japanese air attack, 19 March 1945.

** Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.

* French ship Franklin ( 1797 )

On Liberty Fleet Day 27 September 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was present at the launching of the first Liberty ship SS Patrick Henry at Bethlehem ’ s Fairfield ( Baltimore ) yard.

On one occasion he commands an Honourable East India Company ship, and for some time Surprise is a hired vessel working for the Royal Navy ( HMHV ), and the Franklin is a privateer captured by Jack Aubrey, and used for a brief time, before he sells it.

On May 11, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill used the North Shore Branch en route to a meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D. C., after his ship had landed in Tompkinsville.

* An exhibition entitled " Real Pirates: The Untold Story of ' The Whydah ' ( from slave ship to pirate ship )" is touring the U. S. Venues include Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH ; The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA ; The Field Museum, Chicago, IL ; Nauticus, Norfolk, VA ; St. Louis, MO and Houston, TX.

At that time, he took command of the dispatch gunboat, and established a very close friendship with, the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt who cruised with him on the ship.

Meanwhile, Dr Franklin finds out that " Arthur " is David McIntyre, the gunnery sergeant who was a crewmember on the ship that had fired the first fateful shots of the Earth-Minbari War.

An American whaler is taken by the Surprise and the Franklin, and a British sailor on the whaler tells Aubrey of a French ship — the Alastor — turned a true pirate, unlike the Franklin, flying the black flag and demanding immediate surrender or death of its victims.

In the " Heroes Reborn " reality created by Franklin Richards as a haven for several of Earth's superheroes, a Kymellian ship crashed on that reality's Earth at some point, but its pilot died in the crash.

Franklin connects to the Phalanx ship in orbit and, upon finding out that they attempt to destroy and assimilate all life on Earth, deems them " evil " and destroys their ship.

During the Battle of Hampton Roads, when her Commanding Officer, Captain Franklin Buchanan, was wounded in the March 8, 1862 attack on USS Cumberland and Congress, Jones temporarily took command, leading the ship during her historic engagement with USS Monitor on the following day.