* – One of the few comprehensive books on these ships

One theory for the problem is the weight of the corvus on the prows of the ships made the ships unstable and caused them to sink in bad weather.

One of the five original ships got destroyed, and after seeing the first ship go down another ship had a mutiny and took off.

** One of five ships ( the first constructed in 1835 ) of the Hellenic Navy named after him

One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut made it possible for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in half the time previously required.

One source of income for the area is that from visiting cruise ships.

One strategy to counter the blockade saw the development of torpedo boats, small fast boats designed to attack the larger capital ships of the blockading fleet.

One morning they see nine hide boats ; the local people ( Skraelings ) examine the Norse ships and depart in peace.

One Viking innovation was the ' beitass ', a spar mounted to the sail that allowed their ships to sail effectively against the wind.

* May 28 – One of the worst storms ever experienced in the region hits the east coast of England, sinking more than 100 ships and killing at least 40 people.

One known hyper-injunction was obtained at the High Court in 2006, preventing its subject from saying that paint used in water tanks on passenger ships can break down and release potentially toxic chemicals.

One of the ships of the Indian Navy has been named INS Godavari after the river.

One of the more successful of these ships was the Prince de Neufchatel, which once captured nine British prizes in swift succession in the English Channel.

One of the major tourist areas in St. Lucia, Castries is a port of call for cruise ships.

One recent use was to assist attacks by torpedo boats by dazzling gun crews on the ships being attacked.

* One of two ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy:

Near the end of his life he is believed to have left for Valinor on one of the last ships of Círdan, as he too was a Ring-bearer, having borne the One Ring during Frodo's captivity by the orcs.

Calf of Man, Lower Lighthouse One of two built by Robert Stevenson in 1818 to steer ships clear of Chicken Rock.

One of his major initiatives was to crack down on gambling ships operating off the coast of Southern California.

One ship was separated from the others in a gale near the Cape Verde Islands, but Verrazzano reached the coast of Brazil with two ships and harvested a cargo of brazilwood before returning to Dieppe in September.

One inscription states that ships of Dilmun ( Bahrain ) brought him wood as tribute from foreign lands.

One of the darker aspects of the county's history involved the Bradley Transportation Company when one of their cargo ships, the Carl D. Bradley sank on Lake Michigan in a November Gale in 1958 with the lost of 33 lives, 29 of whom resided in Presque Isle County ( 26 were from Rogers City, two were from Onaway, and one was from Metz Township ).

One of the first recorded ships of the township was a sloop belonging to Thomas Ridgway Sr. John Mathis Sr. also had a ship which his son, Daniel, sailed the West Indian routes.

One documented case of buried treasure involved Francis Drake who buried Spanish gold and silver after raiding the train at Nombre de Dios -- after Drake went to find his ships, he returned six hours later and retrieved the loot and sailed for England.

One of the songs on this album is a fat man's lament, " I'm Called Little Butterball ," parodying " I'm Called Little Buttercup " from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta HMS Pinafore.

One had been mounted on the Royal Navy's HMS Ramillies and the other on both HMS Resolution and HMS Roberts.

One of the last times that weather gage was perhaps a factor in a naval engagement was in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941 where the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen held the weather gage over the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood.

One, during the American Revolution, was a desultory bombardment by Sir James Wallace in the frigate HMS Rose on August 30, 1775.

One example of an admiral appointing a junior post-captain to command his flagship in this way is the appointment of Alexander Hood to the command of HMS Barfleur, flagship of his brother, Admiral Sir Samuel Hood.

The ensign, with the four colors of the FMS, was flown by HMS Malaya ( commanded by Captain Boyle under the 5th Battle Squadron of the British Grand Fleet ) during the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea, which was the largest and the only full scale clash of battleships during World War One.

* One of the planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers of the 1960s was tentatively named HMS Duke of Edinburgh but the design was never constructed.

One month into World War II, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow.

One ship and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mauritius, in reference to the former colony of Mauritius:

One torpedo seriously damaged battleship HMS Ramillies, while the second sank the oil tanker British Loyalty ( 6, 993 tons ).

One of them, HMS Imperial, had to return to Alexandria with a burst steam pipe on the early hours of 8 July.

One was by Prince George of Wales, the future King George V. During his late adolescence, in 1880, with his elder brother Prince Albert Victor of Wales, he was on a three-year voyage with their tutor Dalton, temporarily shipped into HMS Inconstant after the damaged rudder in their original ship, the 4, 000-tonne corvette Bacchante was repaired.

One cargo ship, the Imperial Star was sunk, and the battleship HMS Nelson was damaged by a torpedo.

One submarine, HMS Clyde, was converted into an underwater supply ship.

One of the most successful minelayers was HMS Rorqual, which lay over 1, 000 mines and accounted for more than 40, 000 tons of Axis shipping.

One of the German U Boats heading to the Python to be refuelled spotted HMS Dunedin and sank her with a loss of 350 of her 500 man crew.

One of the anecdotal and possibly apocryphal tales told in support of Mountbatten Pink was the story of the cruiser HMS Kenya ( nicknamed " The Pink Lady " at the time due to her Mountbatten Pink paint ), which during Operation Archery covered a commando raid against installations on Vågsøy Island off the Norwegian coast.

One 19th century attempt to attach a warning buoy to the Runnel Stone was led by the naval Lieutenant Hugh Goldsmith ( nephew of the famous poet Oliver Goldsmith ) aboard the cutter HMS Nimble.

One British writer claimed that the early school was influenced by a group of a dozen flying instructors from the British Fleet Air Arm aboard HMS Ark Royal, who were graduates of the Royal Navy's intense Air Warfare Instructors School in Lossiemouth, Scotland.

One of Forbes ' achievements was to have advised and helped the young Thomas Henry Huxley before, during and after the latter's voyage on HMS Rattlesnake.

One of the ships, HMS Resolute, was later recovered, intact, by an American whaler.