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captain and brig
Unable to imprison Ryback in the brig without clearance from the captain, Krill detains Ryback in a freezer and places a Marine, Private Nash ( Tom Wood ), on guard.
The character is a villainous pirate captain of the Jolly Roger brig, and lord of the pirate village / harbour in Neverland, where he is widely feared.
He was captain of the brig Hannah, which foundered nine miles off the coast of Suffolk during a terrible storm on 28 May 1860, in which more than 100 vessels and at least 40 lives were lost.
While brigs could not sail into the wind as easily as fore and aft rigged vessels such as schooners, a trait that is common to all square-rigged ships, a skilled brig captain could " manoeuvre it with ease and elegance ; a brig could for instance turn around almost on the spot ".
The captain sends them both to the brig.
Due to the strange co-incidence of the recurrence of the names White, from Thomas and John the lifeboat builders, and the name of the brig Mary White and also the name of its captain, Mr. White, the lifeboat was thereafter named Mary White.
Appointed captain in the Continental Navy on 10 October 1776, he assumed command of the 14-gun brig Andrew Doria.
Born at Boston, Massachusetts, Williams was commissioned a captain in the Navy of Massachusetts and received command of the brig Hazard late in 1777.
Appointed acting lieutenant in brig Enterprise 16 October 1811, he took command of his ship during her action with HMS Boxer 5 September 1813, early in which Enterprise ’ s captain, Lieutenant William Ward Burrows II, was mortally wounded.
On the same day, the brig Gustavo passed through the area, confirming a bubbling in the sea that the captain thought was a sea monster.
Born in Stonington, Connecticut, he went to sea as a cabin boy at the age of 14, and by the age of 24 was captain of a West Indian brig in which he visited the South Pacific for the first time.
His father was the captain of a whaling brig.
In June 1825 he persuaded his uncle to allow him to accompany Lieutenant King, captain of the brig The Mary to South Africa in the capacity of the captain's " companion ".
F. S. Dutton's brother William Hampden Dutton ( 1805 – 1849 ) was pastoralist of Anlaby station and miner at Kapnda, not to be confused with the unrelated William Pelham Dutton ( 1811 – 1878 ) who was born William Dutton in Sydney, shifted with his family to Tasmania in 1813 and was for many years captain of the brig Lady Mary Pelham, one of the ships chartered by the South Australian Company in 1836.

captain and Minerva
* Otto van Hoek, galley slave, pirate-hating Dutch captain of the Minerva
Shinn is introduced in the series as a member of the military organization ZAFT from the colony PLANT, working as the pilot of the mobile suit under the command of Talia Gladys, captain of the battleship Minerva.
He was promoted to Commander in 1756 and served as flag captain for Rear Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, first on the HMS Prince in the Mediterranean ( the flagship of Rear-Admiral Saunders, under whom Hood had served as a lieutenant ), then on the frigate HMS Minerva.

captain and embarked
Monsieur de Monneron, captain among geniuses, who had followed me on my Hudson Bay Expedition, was embarked as chief engineer ; his friendship for me, as well as his taste for voyages, made him determined to seek this position: he was charged with making plans, examining positions.
Probably in 1508, in the company of captain Thomas Aubert, he embarked for the American coast on a ship called La Pensée, equipped by the shipowner Jean Ango.
Attaining the rank of post captain in 1868, he embarked on a series of expeditions to chart the coast of Algeria.

captain and on
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.
You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.
If the acting captain wanted his acting lieutenant to sit on his ass around the station all night, Killpath would just have to go out and drag Gun back by the heels once an hour ; ;
`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.
Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.
Where the hell did he get off threatening to report any laxness on their part to the captain??
Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".
While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.
John Young, a captain in the United States Navy, had flown on three spaceflights prior to Apollo 16: Gemini 3, Gemini 10 and Apollo 10, which orbited the Moon.
The captain may decide to disembark a suspected person on the territory of any country, where the aircraft would land, and that country must agree to that.
In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British colony on the east coast of Australia, by Lord Sydney, the Home Secretary.
In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.
More milestones followed as he won his 100th England cap on 21 April 1970 against Northern Ireland, and was made captain by Ramsey for the occasion.
As the batsman started to walk back, captain Rahul Dravid declared the innings when confusion started as the umpires were not certain if the fielder stepped on the ropes and Dhoni stayed for the umpire's verdict.
While the replays were inconclusive, the captain of the West Indies side, Brian Lara wanted Dhoni to walk-off based on the fielder's assertion of the catch.
The admiral ordered Hood to establish the safest course into the harbour ; the British had no charts of the depth or shape of the bay except a rough sketch map Swiftsure had obtained from a merchant captain, an inaccurate British atlas on Zealous, and a 35-year old French map aboard Goliath.
He was a team captain on the sci-fi quiz series Space Cadets ( 1997 ) on Channel 4, which guest starred William Shatner.
The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.
Lyell asked Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, to search for erratic boulders on the survey voyage of the Beagle, and just before it set out FitzRoy gave Darwin Volume 1 of the first edition of Lyell's Principles.

captain and successful
His 99 wins as captain makes him the third most successful captain worldwide in terms of matches won, behind Ricky Ponting and Allan Border, and in terms of percentage of wins ( 73. 70 ), behind Ponting and Clive Lloyd.
These included Muslim sailors being " paid a fixed wage " in advance " with an understanding that they would owe money in the event of desertion or malfeasance, in keeping with Islamic conventions " in which contracts should specify " a known fee for a known duration ", in contrast to Roman and Byzantine sailors who were " stakeholders in a maritime venture, in as much as captain and crew, with few exceptions, were paid proportional divisions of a sea venture's profit, with shares allotted by rank, only after a voyage's successful conclusion.
That year and in 1630, when he was appointed full captain on initiative of stadtholder Frederick Henry himself, Tromp was very successful in fighting the Dunkirkers as a squadron commander, functioning as a commandeur and still using the Vliegende Groene Draeck.
" ( In contrast, Roman and Byzantine sailors were " stakeholders in a maritime venture, inasmuch as captain and crew, with few exceptions, were paid proportional divisions of a sea venture's profit, with shares allotted by rank, only after a voyage's successful conclusion.
In 1815 Edmond Dantès, a young and successful merchant sailor recently granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Leclère, returns to Marseille to marry his fiancée Mercédès.
He played 668 matches for Arsenal ( only David O ' Leary has played more ) and was the most successful captain in the club's history.
Barassi was a six-time premiership player and two-time premiership captain at Melbourne during its most successful era, and at the age of 28 was still one of the biggest names in the game.
It was named after the country home of Captain John Harlow, a former sea captain from Maine, and a successful Portland businessman.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Andrew Sterett was the son of John Sterett, a former Revolutionary War captain and a successful shipping merchant.
She is head of the fourth form, games captain of the fifth, and head-girl in her final year as well as being a successful lacrosse and tennis player.
He rose to prominence during a hugely successful spell at Arsenal from 1996 to 2005, where he won three Premier League titles – one unbeaten – and four FA Cups, eventually becoming club captain.
His father had broad and successful career interests as a sea captain, merchant, land developer, farmer, lawyer and jurist.
Winnipeg's fortunes were bolstered by acquisitions such as Swedish forwards Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson, who starred with Hull on the WHA's most famous and successful forward line ( nicknamed " the Hot Line "), and defenceman Lars-Erik Sjoberg, who would serve as the team's captain and win accolades as the WHA's best defenceman.
He was very successful with Spurs, playing as a right-back in more than 250 cup and league games, and in 1948 made his England debut against Switzerland ; he went on to captain his country three times, all in games where the regular skipper Billy Wright was unavailable through injury.
He remained captain and a regular in the team under new manager Jean Tigana in the 2000 – 01 season as Fulham made a successful start to the campaign.
While editor of The Nation, he led the successful campaign in 1960 to have Frank Worrell appointed the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team.
Statistically, he is the most successful captain of all time, with 48 victories in 77 Tests between 2004 and 31 December 2010, while as a player he is also the only cricketer in history to be involved in 100 Test victories.
The home side went on to win the match comfortably, and Ponting overtook Shane Warne's record of 91 Test victories and surpassing Steve Waugh as crickets most successful Test captain.
Vettori had replaced New Zealand's most successful captain, Stephen Fleming, who led New Zealand to 28 Test victories, more than twice as many as any other captain.
He is one of the most successful Indian Test captains to date, winning 21 out of 49 test matches. Sourav Ganguly is the most successful Indian test captain in overseas with 11 wins.
By 2004, he had achieved significant success as captain and was deemed as India's most successful cricket captain by sections of the media.

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