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.

On Sept. 6, the Kretchmer rescued the crew of a trawler they found drifting on a life raft after they had abandoned a sinking ship.

* 1981 – The U. S. Navy nuclear submarine accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.

The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.

One theory is that this was caused by a design fault in the ammunition loading system to the main gun turrets, so that an enemy hit on the turret set off an explosion in the magazine, thus sinking the ship.

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior occurred when the French government secretly bombed the ship in Auckland harbour on orders from François Mitterrand himself.

For example, the ship Wilhelm Gustloff sank taking about 9, 400 people with her – the worst loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history.

But he replied: ' The captain must not leave his sinking ship.

* 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking ; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.

In a much publicized wartime tragedy, the sinking of the USAT Dorchester, the ship's multi-faith chaplains gave up their lifebelts to evacuating seamen and stood together " arm in arm in prayer " as the ship went down.

The country also faced various catastrophes at the time ; train collision and ship sinking in 1993, Seoul's Seongsu Bridge and Sampoong Department Store collapsing in 1994.

The first sinking of an armoured ship by a torpedo boat occurred in 1891 during the Chilean Civil War.

The loss of even a squadron of torpedo boats to enemy fire would be more than outweighed by the sinking of a capital ship.

U-boat sinking a troop transport ship, painting by Willy Stöwer

In preventing the submarine from sinking, control of the main ballast tanks are lost and the ship ascends uncontrollably.

The capture, rather than sinking, of U-570 – the only ship to be captured by an aircraft – on 27 August 1941 by a Lockheed Hudson from RAF Coastal Command was important for determining the fighting capacity of U-boats, although her crew destroyed the Enigma and cipher information.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

* February 28 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral ( sinking ship ) ( b. 1889 )

** Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak ; K XVI is herself torpedoed the following day by Japanese submarine I 66.

* March 24 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer ( ship sinking ) ( b. 1867 )

* Japanese ambassadors, student priests and students sail for Tang, but they are drowned by sinking of the ship on their way to Tang.

An example is the Titanic sinking ; even if there were time travellers on the Titanic, they obviously failed to stop the ship from sinking.

Our planet is bigger than the reed bundles that have carried us across the seas, and yet small enough to run the same risks unless those of us still alive open our eyes and minds to the desperate need of intelligent collaboration to save ourselves and our common civilization from what we are about to convert into a sinking ship.

When the reefs to the East of Bermuda were spotted, the ship was deliberately driven on them to prevent its sinking, thereby saving all aboard ( 150 sailors and settlers, and one dog ).

The Missouri, the ship on which the Japanese formally surrendered, was built there, as was the Maine, whose sinking off Havana led to the start of the Spanish-American War.