Wood from the huts was used for firewood, and fish caught off the fringing reef combined with some potatoes and onions they had saved from their sinking vessel to augment the island's meager ( as it turned out ) supply of coconuts.

Grains may be preserved using carbon dioxide by one of two methods ; either using a block of dry ice placed in the bottom and the can is filled with grain or the container can be purged from the bottom by gaseous carbon dioxide from a cylinder or bulk supply vessel.

He arranged that a large number of useful trees and plants should be sent out in the supply ship which, however, was wrecked, and every vessel that came from New South Wales brought plants or animals or geological and other specimens to Banks.

The Argonaute is a France | French supply vessel, mainly used for anti-pollution missions along with the tugboat Abeille Bourbon.

It also contains nerves that supply the vessel as well as nutrient capillaries ( vasa vasorum ) in the larger blood vessels.

In contrast, occlusion of the blood vessel by atherosclerotic plaque, by an embolised blood clot or a foreign body leads to downstream ischemia ( insufficient blood supply ) and possibly necrosis.

Although winter conditions prevented the freeing of the prisoners, the mission did result in the capture of the Mellish, a vessel carrying a vital supply of winter clothing intended for John Burgoyne's troops in Canada.

* Platform supply vessel, a specific type of ship

Today, Modern Welding Company has 9 steel tank and vessel fabrication subsidiaries located throughout the United States and 5 welding supply stores located in Kentucky and Indiana.

* Offshore supply vessel

Anchor handling tug supply vessel | AHTS Balder Viking

The Upton vessel was taken by the army and used as a ferry and supply vessel for the anti-aircraft forts in Liverpool Bay.

Through further developments, it was found the waterjet offered several other advantages over propellers for a wide range of vessel types, and as such, waterjets are used widely today for many high-speed vessels, including passenger ferries, rescue craft, patrol boats and offshore supply vessels.

In time, the Cam Ranh Bay facility accomplished major vessel repair and dispensed a greater variety of supply items to the anti-infiltration task force.

With the help of Gascogne's supply vessel, a Dread can be re-armed during battle.

It also provided amphibious assault ships to land supply, as a sunken ROC naval vessel was blocking the harbor.

In most other parts of the world, water heating appliances do not use a cold water storage vessel or container, but heat water at pressures close to that of the incoming mains water supply.

Another popular arrangement where higher flow rates are required ( although for limited periods ) is to heat water in a pressure vessel capable of withstanding a hydrostatic pressure close to that of the incoming mains supply.

Heat from the space-heating boiler is transferred to the water heater vessel / container by means of a heat exchanger, and the boiler operates at a higher temperature than the potable hot water supply.

It was his job to mend and maintain the sail of the Kalhuoffummi-the ship used in the ' battle ' and supply water to the vessel every time it docked at Maroshi, which was an important port during this fight.

Thrombosis, or thrombotic disease, is the formation of a clot within a blood vessel which interferes with the blood supply to tissues and causes problems such as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism when it is located in the veins, or heart attacks and strokes when located in the arteries.

Hero inlet is named for the R / V Hero, a 125-foot wooden trawler-type vessel built to conduct research and supply Palmer Station from ports in Argentina and Chile.

Ischemic strokes are those that are caused by interruption of the blood supply, while hemorrhagic strokes are the ones which result from rupture of a blood vessel or an abnormal vascular structure.

Shortly thereafter, Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin approached Kucera to supply a million word, three-line citation base for its new American Heritage Dictionary, the first dictionary to be compiled using corpus linguistics.

Posing as a talent scout he approached ball bearing manufacturers and attempted to purchase their supply.

During the American Civil War, Lynchburg, which served as a Confederate supply base, was approached within by the Union forces of General David Hunter as he drove south from the Shenandoah Valley.

In 1585 Chapman was approached in a friendly fashion by John Wolfall, Sr., who offered to supply a bond of surety for a loan to furnish Chapman money " for his proper use in Attendance upon the then Right Honorable Sir Rafe Sadler Knight.

Shortly thereafter, Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin approached Kučera to supply a million word, three-line citation base for its new American Heritage Dictionary.

Black Hills then approached the Nosler bullet manufacturing company, who made a similar OTM bullet, and Nosler agreed to supply cannelured bullets to Black Hills.

No measures had been taken to supply these voluntary crusaders with food or clothing ; as harvest-time approached, the landlords commanded them to return to reap the fields, and, on their refusing to do so, proceeded to maltreat their wives and families and set their armed retainers upon the local peasantry.

Shortly after publication of the first lexicostatistical analysis, Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin approached Kucera to supply a million word, three-line citation base for its new American Heritage Dictionary.

In May 2007, due to the prolonged drought which was likely to adversely affect production in the near future, the company approached Orange City Council requesting to use some of the town water supply.

On 29 May Malmgren shot a Polar bear which approached the crash site, augmenting the food supply with about 189 kg ( 400 pounds ) of fresh meat.

To avoid legal issues with Ford, Saleen was approached to supply the villainous police car.

Jim Russell approached Colin Chapman to supply Formula Ford cars for his own school.

As winter approached, the Argentine government announced that it would restrict natural gas exports in order to preserve the supply for internal consumption, both domestic and industrial, in compliance with the Hydrocarbons Law.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.

The Royal Navy struggled to maintain British supply lines, defending convoys from American and French attacks such as a the fiercely fought convoy battle, the Naval battle off Cape Breton.

This implicit threat to the viability of the Royal Navy became apparent in mid-September ( a month after the decision had been taken to settle Botany Bay ) and caused the Pitt Administration to begin an urgent search for new sources of supply, including from Norfolk Island, which was then added to the plan to colonise New South Wales.

Subsequent work at the Royal Aircraft Establishment investigated axial turbine designs that could be used to supply power to a shaft and thence a propeller.

* Royal Warrant, a warrant that enables suppliers to advertise that they supply goods / service to a royal family

* Royal Warrant ( Thailand ), a warrant that enables suppliers to advertise that they supply goods / service to the King of Thailand

For example, when operating with inexperienced guerrilla forces in Spain, the Royal Navy sometimes failed to achieve its objectives simply because of the lack of manpower that the Navy's guerrilla allies had promised to supply.

In the 1880s, Prince Edward ( later Edward VII ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant.

This was especially the case because in early 1941, the Royal Navy used intelligence from Ultra to sink all of the Dithmarschen ships and other supply ships that the Kriegsmarine used to supply U-boats and surface raiders on the high seas.

Dewar was also the President of the Chemical Society in 1897 and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1902, as well as serving on the Royal Commission established to examine London's water supply from 1893 to 1894 and the Committee on Explosives.

During World War I acetone was in short supply in Great Britain, and a new experimental form was developed for use by the Royal Navy.

Sydney Harbour played an important role during World War II after a Royal Canadian Navy base,, was established to stage supply convoys bound for Europe.

By July the company had arranged contracts with the Royal African Company to supply the necessary African slaves to Jamaica.

He was the author of Soil, Humus and Health ( 1975 ), The Royal Gardeners ( 1952 ), Grow your own food supply ( 1939 ), The ABC of Vegetable Gardening ( 1937 ) and many other books on gardening.

Concerned about their overland supply lines to Quebec, they first raided the British fishing port of Canso on May 23, and then organized an attack on Annapolis Royal, then the capital of Nova Scotia.

The seizure in 1775 of the Virginia Colony's gunpowder supply in Williamsburg on orders of the Royal Governor, in what became known as the Gunpowder Incident, prompted the Westmoreland Committee of Safety to convene at the Court House on May 23, 1775.

Royal forests in the early medieval period were subject to special royal jurisdiction ; forest law was, as historian Robert Huscroft describes it, " harsh and arbitrary, a matter purely for the King's will " and forests were expected to supply the king with hunting grounds, raw materials, goods and money.

He discussed these issues in his 1696 pamphlet, which also considered the effects of the Recoinage of that year, in which the Royal Mint recalled large quantities of silver coins, melted them down and reminted them, resulting in a temporary fall in the supply of money.

The granting of the Royal Assent to a supply bill is indicated with the words La Reyne remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et ainsi le veult, translated as " The Queen thanks her good subjects, accepts their bounty, and wills it so.

The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of Adam Smith, who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh and the first contract to supply whisky to the Royal Navy.

By 1916, after the Battle of Jutland, the Germans were forced to concede that the Imperial German Navy's surface fleet could not challenge the strength of the Royal Navy on the high seas, so great faith was placed in the U-Boat to strangle British supply lines in the Atlantic.

The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps transport and supply elements were combined with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps to form the Logistics Branch The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps clerical trades were merged with the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps and the Royal Canadian Postal Corps to form the Administration Branch ( later merged with the Logistics Branch ) Other " corps ", included: Canadian Engineer Corps, Signalling Corps, Corps of Guides, Canadian Women's Army Corps, Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps, Canadian Forestry Corps, Canadian Provost Corps and Canadian Intelligence Corps.