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As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.
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My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.
She could not face coffee or tea without milk, and was always craving types of food that were not available aboard a sailing ship.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
Four hundred and fifty pounds was disseminated while the ship was traveling a distance of 156 miles.
The order to abandon ship was given, but cries of pain could be heard from the wounded below decks.
The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.
Just as it was being hauled inboard, a sea hit the ship.
When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.
An ancient Rolls-Royce, as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the ship, was parked at the curb.
He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.
This was a training ship and the training would continue, but there was an element of frightful absurdity here which Alexander recognized.
Many years later, the photon-counting apparatus in the nose of the ship would determine that the star was close enough to actuate deceleration.
There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid ground, they simply had to get out.
For Helva was destined to be the `` brain '' half of a scout ship, partnered with a man or a woman, whichever she chose, as the mobile half.
And very, very few were lost when the final connection was made to the control panels of ship or industrial combine.
On the anniversary of her sixteenth year in her shell, Helva was unconditionally graduated and installed in her ship, the Aj.
Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.
When she awoke, she was the ship.
Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.
Another popular method of exploiting this bug was to simply use thrust to keep the ship in motion with 1 or 2 asteroids in the play field, allowing the player to pick off as many 1, 000 point UFOs as possible.
On some early versions of the game, it was also possible to hide the ship in the score area indefinitely without being hit by asteroids.
Agrippina was put aboard and after the bottom of the ship opened up, she fell into the water.
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The ship was readied for departure in record time, and remained in Belle Chasse, Louisiana for six months before returning to her berth at the college on March 8, 2006.
* Fitting-out: The period after a ship is launched during which all the remaining construction of the ship is completed and she is readied for sea trials and delivery to her owners.
After receiving Luke's garbled message, a second ship is hastily readied for a rescue mission.
However, of all the wickedness that they have readied against Homer, the most extreme happened in Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind where they tried to kill Homer by pushing him out of the bridge, but Homer survived due to a moon bouncer in a ship.
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Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.
Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.
Surface forces have been used to provide defense zones around naval and merchant ship formations, air to furnish area surveillance, and mines for protection of limited areas.
Plane radios were not yet available, and once in the air, Fogg flew his ship by compass, a good memory for landmarks as seen from above, and a capacity for dead reckoning and quick computation.
On Mars humans were building pressure domes for the male and female party that would arrive by next ship.
The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.
* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
The ship will seek a location which is sufficiently protected ; has suitable holding ground, enough depth at low tide and enough room for the boat to swing.
Kedging or warping is a technique for moving or turning a ship by using a relatively light anchor.
* AV, the designation for " seaplane tender " in the United States Navy's ship classification system
He has a ship that can be rolled up like a tablecloth when not used, he relies on two talking ravens to gather intelligence, and he consults the talking head of a dwarf for prophecy ( he carries it around long since detached from its body ) ( Section 7 ).
; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.
Alcaeus rarely used metaphor or simile and yet he had a fondness for the allegory of the storm-tossed ship of state.
* USS Aquila ( AK-47 ), an Aquila-class cargo ship commissioned by the U. S. Navy for service in World War II
The circumstances preceding the mutiny on the Bounty and Jack London's story " Make Westing " poignantly illustrated the difficulty it caused for mariners seeking to round Cape Horn on the clipper ship route between New York and California.
Cynegeirus however died in the battle, receiving a mortal wound while trying to prevent a Persian ship retreating from the shore, for which his countrymen extolled him as a hero.
A contemporary report tells that Thorkell the Tall attempted to save Ælfheah from the mob about to kill him by offering them everything he owned except for his ship, in exchange for Ælfheah's life ; Thorkell's presence is not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however.
* 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
During a storm encountered in the course of the voyage, the convicts assisted in working the ship and, on arrival at Colonia, Phillip recommended that they be rewarded for saving the ship by remission of their sentences.
But July, when the vessels of the Third Fleet began to arrive, with 2, 000 more convicts, food again ran short, and he had to send a ship to Calcutta for supplies.
* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.
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