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On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.
On 25 May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.
On 28 November Teach's two ships attacked a French merchant vessel off the coast of Saint Vincent.
On 26 March, he reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the submersible vessel, the Deepsea Challenger.
On March 17, 1959, the USS Skate ( SSN-578 ) surfaced at the Pole, becoming the first naval vessel to do so.
On August 17, 1977, the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika completed the first surface vessel journey to the North Pole.
On September 7, 1991, the German research vessel Polarstern and the Swedish icebreaker Oden reached the North Pole as the first conventional powered vessels.
On 16 January 1878, the Turkish steamer Intibah became the first vessel to be sunk by self-propelled torpedoes, launched from torpedo boats operating from the tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin under the command of Stepan Osipovich Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
On reaching India in October 1502, da Gama started capturing any Arab vessel he came across in Indian waters, most notoriously the Miri, a pilgrim ship from Mecca, whose passengers he had massacred in open water.
On a fragmentary archaic vessel of circa 580 BC ( British Museum 1971. 11-1. 1 ), among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy.
On a three-masted vessel the masts are, from bow to stern, Fore, Main and Mizzen ; the " plain " square sails are, bottom to top, Course, Topsail, Topgallant, Royal and Sky.
This was the basis for his first published scientific works On the equilibrium of a heavy body in a heavy fluid contained in a vessel of a fixed form and On the potential of hydrostatic pressure.
On 2 August 2009, a Russian woman, distraught over being denied French citizenship, threw a terra cotta mug or teacup, purchased at the museum, at the painting in the Louvre ; the vessel shattered against the glass enclosure.
On striking the side of a ship the shell broke up, freeing the still molten iron, which set fire to the vessel.
On the River Thames and inland waterways the duty is carried out by the vessel Trinity House No 1 Boat.
On May 13, 1940 De Jong sailed to England on board the Dutch HNLMS O 24 and during World War II he saw action initially as first officer and from mid-1944 onwards as Commanding officer of that vessel.
On the third day following the accident, a hydrogen bubble was discovered in the dome of the pressure vessel, and became the focus of concern.
On the 17th day of July they sailed from Liverpool harbor on board a sailing vessel named the Republic, and after a voyage of six weeks and two days arrived safely in New York City on the 30th of August, 1845..
On June 27, 1839, La Amistad (" Friendship "), a Spanish vessel, departed from the port of Havana, Cuba ( then a Spanish colony ), for Puerto Principe, also in Cuba.
On November 23, 1574, the Chinese pirate Limahong and his 65 vessel fleet, with 3, 000 men anchored between Corregidor and Mariveles.
On one large vessel, the artist depicts birds with fish in their beaks, resting in a tree, while a fox-like animal stands below.
On July 4, 1868, Te Kooti led a dramatic prison break, and with 168 other prisoners seized the schooner Rifleman, with supplies and rifles, scuttled another vessel and set off back to the North Island.
On 6 December, the British vessel was scuttled and the crew transferred to the auxiliary Seydlitz.

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On the morning of September 10, 1895, Powell and Ross rose at dawn and began their day's work.
On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.
On January 18, Ernest Gross conducted a press conference at the U.N. lasting an hour.
On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.
On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.
On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.
On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.
On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.
On the Christophers' lawn, little girls in white pinafores were playing grownups at a tea party.
On such occasions he had not had the courage to look at the face above the hand, whatever face it might be.
On ships at sea, on railroad trains, in summer hotels with mountain views, they always said, `` I've never done this before ''.
On October 8th of last year, the Industrial Division sponsored the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development at the former Henry Barnard School.
On April 30, ceremonies commemorating the departure of these volunteers will take place at 1:00 P.M. at the Dexter Training Grounds in Providence.
On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.
On their way, they stopped at every gas station along the main boulevards to question the attendants.
On C, from the point P at Af to the point Q at Af, we construct the chord, and upon the chord as a side erect a square in such a way that as S approaches zero the square is inside C.
On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??
On the theory before us, such relief would be groundless, for in that suffering itself there was nothing bad at all, and hence in its nonoccurrence there would be nothing to be relieved about.
On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.

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