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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.
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Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal voyage.
Both landings were amphibious operations conducted from the ships.
In 1615, the shipwreck and death of governor Pieter Both, who was coming back from India with four richly laden ships in the bay, caused the route to be considered as cursed by Dutch sailors, and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.
Both ships ' crews merge aboard Voyager to make the estimated 75-year journey home.
Both warrant officers and commissioned warrant officers messed in the warrant officers ' mess rather than the wardroom ( although in ships too small to have a warrant officers ' mess they did mess in the wardroom ).
Both navies use ships firing cannon through ports, and each loses its principal ship — Regent and Marie-la-Cordelière — through a large explosion aboard the latter.
Both stories take place aboard colony ships orbiting Tau Ceti, where sentient computers have engaged crew and colonists in a fight for survival.
Both were granted armed ships and full monopolies over trade around their settlements, to prevent better-armed, lower-priced, and better-quality Dutch goods from bankrupting the enterprise.
Both William and Harald at once set about assembling troops and ships for an invasion.
Both fountains had the same form: a stone basin ; six figures of tritons or naiads holding fish spouting water ; six seated allegorical figures, their feet on the prows of ships, supporting the pedestal, of the circular vasque ; four statues of different forms of genius in arts or crafts supporting the upper inverted upper vasque ; whose water shot up and then cascaded down to the lower vasque and then the basin.
Both were enormous ; Nicephorus Gregoras speaks of one hundred thousand ships, the more reliable Cedrenus says that the fleet that attacked Carthage consisted of eleven hundred and thirteen ships, having each one hundred men on board.
Both the Texas Navy and the United States Navy have commissioned ships named after the Battle of San Jacinto: the Texan schooner San Jacinto and three ships named USS San Jacinto.
Both these ships had 100 guns.
Both sides had begun to prepare for war, but conflict might have been delayed if not for an unfortunate encounter on 29 May 1652 ( 19 May in the Julian calendar then in use in England ) near the Straits of Dover between a Dutch convoy escorted by 40 ships under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp and an English fleet of 25 ships under General-at-Sea Robert Blake.
Both of the British ships were outclassed in both gunnery and seamanship.
Both Good Hope and Monmouth were on fire, presenting easy targets to the German gunners now that darkness had fallen, whereas the German ships had disappeared into the dark.
Both British and German sources reported the determination and bravery of the defeated German ships when overwhelmed.
Both kinds of ships are collectively called mine countermeasure vessels ( MCMV ), a term also applied to a vessel that combines both roles.
Both these ships were commandeered.
Both of these ships are converted former merchantmen.
Both ships have 3 masts in which the sails are partially set.
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Both buildings were in flames.
Both these youths, who greatly admired Henrietta, were somewhat younger than she, as were also the neighboring Friedenwald boys, who were then studying medicine ; ;
Both sides agreed that the theater must stand a moral test, but they could not agree on whether the poets were a good or a bad influence.
Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.
Both magazines were `` rigid with reactionary what-will-T. S. Eliot-or-Martin Buber-think??
Both were dressed rather formally.
Both home and auto radios were in excellent demand, with retail sales of home sets ahead of 1959 in every month of the first eleven ; ;
Both sexes reported that the discussions on sex adjustment within marriage were extremely enlightening.
Both parties and the Ministry of the Interior were busily at work after the elections trying to unearth the political affiliations of the successful candidates and, thereby, give the elections a confidential but known degree of national political significance.
Both Cook's and Russell's lives were threatened by the Mexicans following the killing, but the company officers felt that in the end, it would serve to quiet them despite their immediate emotion.
Both of them were overcome by the horror of the world in which they found themselves, because at last they could no longer overcome that world with the weapon of a purely lyrical art.
Both of them were my friends.
Both lived in Georgetown, were unattached, and shared an active social life.
Both he and Bridget were exonerated by Lizzie herself ''.
Both were under the meet mark of 1.10.8 set in 1950 by Mal Whitfield.
Both, of course, were remarkable feats and further embossed the fact that baseball rightfully is the national pastime.
Both cars were slightly damaged.
Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.
Both elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.
Both were scholastic stars in football, basketball, and baseball ( Mantle in Commerce, Okla., Maris in Fargo, N.D. ) ; ;
Both church and graveyard were smaller than she remembered them ( how many things had lessened while she was gone away ) but the headstones had grown so thick in thirty years that to find one named `` Dorothy Tredding '' seemed suddenly impossible.
Both of these replacements were political moderates and prospectively more supportive of the Commander-in-Chief.
Both were appointed to the United States Military Academy, Davis two years behind Johnston.
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