On square-rigged vessels, each mast carries several horizontal yards from which the individual sails are rigged.

On a square rigged sailing vessel, a topgallant sail ( pronounced " t ' gallant ") is the square-rigged sail or sails immediately above the topsail or topsails.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

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.

On Mars humans were building pressure domes for the male and female party that would arrive by next ship.

On the anniversary of her sixteenth year in her shell, Helva was unconditionally graduated and installed in her ship, the Aj.

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.

On this ship he took a detachment of troops from Rio de Janeiro to Colonia do Sacramento on the Rio de la Plata ( opposite Buenos Aires ) to relieve the garrison there.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

On 7 June, following hasty repairs to his flagship, Nelson was joined off Toulon by a fleet of ten ships of the line and a fourth rate ship.

On one occasion, crew members ransacked the trading ship Mary and tortured several of its crew members while Kidd and the other captain, Thomas Parker, conversed privately in Kidd's cabin.

On 30 January 1698, he raised French colours and took his greatest prize, an Armenian ship, the 400 ton Quedagh Merchant, which was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks.

On July 14, 1811, Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

On his way home from Tarentum his wealth caused the crew of his ship to conspire against him.

On leaving the ship he was promoted to Lieutenant on 25 August 1892.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

On 8 July 1174, Henry and Eleanor took ship for England from Barfleur.

On Oxford's return across the Channel in April, his ship was hijacked by pirates from Flushing, who took his possessions, stripped him to his shirt, and might have murdered him had not one of them recognized him.

On 9 August 1592 a severe storm battered his ship, and Davis drifted under bare masts, taking refuge " among certain Isles never before discovered.

On 8 February 1813 the British ship Isabella, a ship of 193 tons and a crew of fourteen, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island ( now known as Speedwell Island ).

On the table to the left of the Duke is a golden salt cellar, or nef, in the shape of a ship ; illustration from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, ca.

On September 15, 1971, the newly founded Don't Make a Wave Committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis Cormack, renamed Greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose United States testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska.

On the way to Athens his ship encountered a violent storm, and the terrified Gregory prayed to Christ that if he would deliver him, he would dedicate his life to His service.

On August 12, 2010, during Quakecon 2010, Id Software announced Rage US ship date of September 13, 2011, and a European ship date of September 15, 2011.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Two treatises are sometimes erroneously attributed to him, one On Emotions, the other a commentary on Aristotle's Ethics ( really by Constantine Palaeocapa in the 16th century, or by John Callistus of Thessalonica ).

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

On the Coast, rainfall, sometimes relentless heavy rain, dominates in winter because of consistent barrages of cyclonic low-pressure systems from the North Pacific, but on occasion ( and not every winter ) heavy snowfalls and below freezing temperatures arrive when modified arctic air reaches coastal areas, typically for short periods.

On the opposite extreme, summers in the Southern Interior valleys are hot ; for example in Osoyoos the July Maximum averages, hot weather sometimes moves towards the Coast or to the far north of the province.

As Chapter 66 of his On the Reckoning of Time, in 725 Bede wrote the Greater Chronicle ( chronica maiora ), which sometimes circulated as a separate work.

On modern keyboards, the key is usually labeled Pause with Break below, sometimes separated by a line, or Pause on the top of the keycap and Break on the front.

On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

On this issue, Trotsky said, " as this regime becomes consolidated all affairs are concentrated in the hands of a small group, sometimes only of a secretary who appoints, removes, gives the instructions, inflicts the penalties, etc.

In order to reinforce his position that the Greeks were inclined towards plagiarism, he cites numerous instances of such inappropriate appropriation by classical Greek writers, reported second-hand from On Plagiarism, an anonymous 3rd century BC work sometimes ascribed to Aretades.

On the other hand, by emphasizing the medical nature of the condition, this term is sometimes rejected, such as by proponents of the autism rights movement.

On the other hand, many inscriptions are highly abbreviated and often casually formed, so the identification of individual letters is sometimes difficult.

On December 15 ( L. L. Zamenhof's birthday ), Esperanto speakers around the world celebrate Zamenhof Day, sometimes relabelled Esperanto Book Day.

On the day of painting, a thinner, smooth layer of fine plaster, the intonaco, is added to the amount of wall that can be expected to be completed in a day, sometimes matching the contours of the figures or the landscape, but more often just starting from the top of the composition.

On the other hand, even the British or the Gibraltarians sometimes date the beginning of British sovereignty in 1704 ( for instance, in its speech at the United Nations in 1994, the Gibraltar Chief Minister at the time, Joe Bossano, stated that Gibraltar has been a British colony ever since it was taken by Britain in 1704 ).

It has been said that audience members would get so boisterous in the boxes, that actors would sometimes break character and yell something such as, “ keep it down in there !” On the contrary, there were audience members who could not physically handle the brutality of the actions taking place on stage.

On the wrong side, the ends of the loops are visible, both the tops and bottoms, creating a much more bumpy texture sometimes called reverse stockinette.

On Friday, October 13, 1307 ( a date sometimes spuriously linked with the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition ) Philip ordered de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested.

On the other hand, the smaller families ( with up to 10 species ) are confined to the Southern Hemisphere, or sometimes just to Australia or South America.

Today Mobil continues as a major brand name within the combined company, as well as still being a gas station sometimes paired with their own store or On the Run.

* 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called " Evolution Day "