The port operates as a contingency facility for general cargo ships, bulk carriers and ROROs, in case of strikes at Piraeus port.

At the beginning of the 21st century, destroyers are the heaviest surface combatant ships in general use, with only three nations ( the United States, Russia, and Peru ) operating the heavier class cruisers and none operating battleships or true battlecruisers.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

These ships were considered to be “ general purpose ” ships, mainly used for fishing and trade, but occasionally were commissioned for military use.

In general, the Río Paraná is navigable by large ships only up to Encarnación, Paraguay but smaller boats may go somewhat farther.

To this end, the Order began stockpiling a fleet of ships, albeit illegally without the approval or knowledge of the Central Command: according to the Cardassian governmental charter, the Order is expressly forbidden from developing or possessing military equipment of any kind, which includes warships and possibly starships in general (" Defiant ").

The Syracusans enlisted the aid of a general from Sparta, Athens ' foe in the war, to defeat the Athenians, destroy their ships, and leave them to starve on the island ( see Sicilian Expedition ).

The tube was relatively immune to vibration, and thus vastly superior on shipboard duty, particularly for navy ships with the shock of weapon fire commonly knocking the sensitive but delicate galena off its sensitive point ( the tube was in general no more sensitive a radio detector, but was adjustment free ).

Yachts are different from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose, and it was not until the rise of the steamboat and other types of powerboat that sailing vessels in general came to be perceived as luxury, or recreational vessels.

* Song Dynasty Chinese general Yue Fei defeats the rebel forces of Yang Yao by entangling his swift paddle-wheel ships with rotten logs and other debris precariously placed in the river.

Gyroscopes can be used to construct gyrocompasses, which complement or replace magnetic compasses ( in ships, aircraft and spacecraft, vehicles in general ), to assist in stability ( Hubble Space Telescope, bicycles, motorcycles, and ships ) or be used as part of an inertial guidance system.

*" Utility " stations transmitting messages not intended for the general public, such as aircraft flying between continents, encrypted diplomatic messages, weather reporting, or ships at sea.

* LHA ( for " Landing Helicopter Assault "), US Navy hull classification symbol for general purpose amphibious assault ships of the Tarawa class

* With the help of the Athenian statesman and general, Cimon, Aristides commands an Athenian fleet of 30 ships that the Spartan commander Pausanias leads to free the Greek cities on Cyprus and capture Byzantium from the Persians and their Phoenician allies.

Just two weeks previously Queen Elizabeth I had issued a general " stay of shipping ", preventing any ships from leaving English shores.

In the first battle, his 20 ships defeat 47 Corinthian ships commanded by Machaon, Isocrates, and Agatharchidas that were advancing to reinforce the Spartan general, Cnemus ' campaign in Acarnania.

* Athens, under Athenian general Tolmides, sends 100 ships around the Peloponnesus and they set fire to the Spartan naval base at Gythion.

Theramenes and another general remained at this fort with a garrison of thirty ships to oversee the collection of the duty.

After going into hiding, Heechee scout ships are periodically sent outside the black hole to check on developments through the universe in general and the emerging Earth in particular.

On a general election 24 April 1912, it was decided that the club would be named " International ", perhaps because the opponents were primarily visitors from cruise ships or trading vessels, or that it was to make room for the many Danes who worked on the engine factory Gideon.

There was a general air of calm and normality on board until eventually at 2am on the 14th of September, the rising water engulfed the ships boilers and the ship was left without power or light.

Diodorus Siculus relates that the Athenian general in command on the fifth day at Sestos, Philocles, sailed out with thirty ships, ordering the rest to follow him.

Key issues over the last decade have been the implementation of the Dayton Accords and the Erdut Agreement, nondiscriminatory facilitation of the return of refugees and displaced persons from the 1991-95 war including property restitution for ethnic Serbs, resolution of border disputes with Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and general democratization.

While not disgraced, he was displaced in Southern affection after the war by the leading Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Starving and displaced, many Kazakhs joined in the general Central Asian Revolt against conscription into the Russian imperial army, which the tsar ordered in July 1916 as part of the effort against Germany in World War I.

Estimates of the number of Arabs displaced from their original homes, villages, and neighborhoods during the period from December 1947 to January 1949 range from about 520, 000 to about 1, 000, 000 ; there is general consensus, however, that the actual number was more than 600, 000 and likely exceeded 700, 000.

She ponders about medical experiments conducted by Nazi physicians ; about the gas chambers in the death camps, implicitly comparing a crowded New York subway with a cattle wagon to Auschwitz ; the Nazis making soap with human fat ; Pope Pius XII and Roman Catholicism ; displaced Jews after World War II ; anti-Semitism in general ; Neo-Nazis in Germany and Austria ; the world population of Jews in 1939 and today and the fact that there were " no Jews left " in Poland after World War II ; business in the DP camps ( i. e. bartering with cigarettes ), coffee but also Nazi memorabilia ; and she considers with disgust a video game on CD-ROM entitled " How to Survive the Holocaust ".

The general economy, however, did not fare very well as mechanization displaced many small artisans.

The term " refugee " is also commonly used as a synonym for displaced person, causing confusion between the general descriptive class of anyone who has left their home and the subgroup of legally defined refugees who enjoy specified international legal protection.

" The UNHCR has traditionally argued that it does not have a " general competence for IDPs " even though at least since 1972 it had relief and rehabillatation programs for those displaced within a country.

In 1759 he was elected to the colony's general assembly and would serve in that body until it was displaced in 1775 as a part of the Revolution.

Israel established the Brazil and Canada housing projects to accommodate displaced Palestinians and to provide better conditions in the hopes of integrating the refugees into the general population and its standard of living ; Brazil is immediate south of Rafah, while Canada was just across the border in Sinai.

In German, Schütze ( " archer ") became a general word for a chess bishop until displaced by Läufer (" runner ") in the 18th century.

Buechler argues that there is in fact no single new social movement theory, but a set of new social movement theories, each a variant on general approach to " something called new social movement ", which he cautiously defines as a " diverse array of collective actions that has presumably displaced the old social movement of proletarian revolution ".

The party is for revamping the public sector undertakings ensuring workers participation in management, and the shares of such public sector undertakings should be allocated to workers of such undertakings and to the people whose land is lost because of such projects coming up in their soil, and to all displaced persons in general.

During the first half of the 20th century, general stores were displaced in many areas of the United States by many different types of specialized retailers.

Historically, the Levée en masse heralded the age of the people's war and displaced prior restricted forms of warfare as the cabinet wars ( 1715 – 1792 ) when armies of professional soldiers fought without general participation of the population.

However, Baiju, the commander of the kheshig, who was descended from Muqali, the renowned general of Genghis Khan, and was a man of high character, gained great influence over the Emperor, and displaced that of Temuder.

In general they come from Africa, Asia and Latin America ( the vast majority of displaced Latin American are from Colombia ), and they generally seek asylum in neighbouring countries.

In the draft plan presented by the GTAA in 2004, mixing the displaced general aviation traffic with increased heavy passenger jet traffic also concerns many small aircraft pilots who would have no choice but to use the new airport, as larger airports tend to be less GA friendly, and more difficult for student pilot training.

In general, basement rocks to the west of Cameron's Line are regarded as autochthonous, meaning that they have not been significantly displaced by tectonic processes.

Many of the villagers were displaced as fighting in the general area continued intermittently for about a month.