In the Late Middle Ages, the Frisian pirates led by respectively Pier Gerlofs Donia and Wijerd Jelckama, fought against the troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Empire with some success, capturing as many as 28 ships in one battle earning Donia the title " Cross of the Dutchman " and making him one of the most famous and iconic pirates of the era.

The Pier Head at Liverpool was obliged to have gangways to suit both sets of ships.

Working piers were built for the handling of passengers and cargo onto and off ships or ( as at Wigan Pier ) canal boats.

The Progreso Pier supplies much of the peninsula with transportation for the fishing and cargo industries and serves as a port for large cruise ships in the area.

Coatham Pier was wrecked before it could be completed when two sailing ships were driven through it in a storm.

Disaster struck Redcar Pier in the 1880s and 1890s when a series of ships broke through it.

However, this work moved the main channel much further out and left St Annes Pier on flat sandbanks, where no ships could dock.

Due to the beautiful view, bay proximity, cruise ships docked at Ōsanbashi Pier, and the graceful Yokohama Bay Bridge, images of Minato Mirai 21 tend to be used as a symbol of today's Yokohama.

Around the 1860s, at the height of the iron and steel era, a pier and a deep-water dock were built by the Bristol & Portishead Pier and Railway to accommodate the large ships that had difficulty in reaching Bristol Harbour.

Although van den Houte was initially successful, with some of the Frisian vessels being burnt near Bunschoten, Grutte Pier responded by seizing 11 of Holland's ships in a battle off the coast near Hoorn in 1518.

Around the 1860s, at the height of the iron and steel era, a pier and a deep-water dock were built, at Portishead, by the Bristol & Portishead Pier and Railway to accommodate the large ships that had difficulty in reaching Bristol Harbour.

It was built in 1902 by shipping industry pioneers Ainsworth & Dunn, One of the largest docks on the waterfront, Pier 70 initially served sailing and steamer ships, such as the famous Blue Funnel Line, a fleet of large freighters that operated between Europe, the Orient and the Pacific Coast.

The USS Wolverine and USS Sable sailed from Chicago's Navy Pier each day to let new aviators practice landing and taking off from ships.

* Pier: A raised structure, typically supported by widely spread piles or pillars, used industrially for loading and unloading commercial ships, receationally for walking and housing attractions at a seaside resort, or as a structure for use by boatless fishermen.

Since the closure of the Pier Head's Princes Landing Stage, the remaining dock basin has been occasionally used as a berth for visiting cruise ships.

It retains Melbourne's passenger terminal however, with cruise ships and ferries using Station Pier.

However, merchant ships and ferries dock at Kwun Tong Pier and Lei Yue Mun Pier, which are both within 15 minutes ' walk from Lam Tin, and provide surface transport for Lam Tin residents.

The Pasacao Pier was the dockyard of the Japanese ships when it was bombed.

As well as the current railway line, a former rail link led towards Princes Pier, now home to the new Ocean Terminal, where large ocean cruisers and container ships are re-supplied.

Caravans will only visit the Trade Post and trade ships will only visit the Pier dedicated to their home city.

They emigrated mainly in 1946 in specially commissioned " war bride ships ," like the Queen Mary, Leticia, or Mauretania, landing at Pier 21 in Halifax.

Pier Luigi travelled through the Papal States defeating pockets of resistance before arriving in triumph at Piacenza.

The party had arrived at the pier having travelled down the River Thames from Tower Pier in London where it had arrived earlier that day.

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

He received the nickname of Baccio della Porta for his house was near the Porta (" Gate ") San Pier Gattolini.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was hired to translate Flaiano and Pinelli ’ s dialogue into Roman dialect and to supervise researches in the vice-afflicted suburbs of Rome.

The result of his journeys through the north was The Road to Wigan Pier, published by Gollancz for the Left Book Club in 1937.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London ( describing a period of poverty in these cities ), The Road to Wigan Pier ( describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and the class divide generally ) and Homage to Catalonia.

The double decker promenade that runs between Warrior Square and Hastings Pier, was built in the 1930s by Sidney Little

* In November 2009, IKEA, along with Abercrombie & Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Kohl's, LL Bean, Pier 1, Propper International and Walmart, was added to the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame by labour rights group International Labour Rights Forum.

The device was fixed underwater at Temple Pier in Urquhart Bay and directed towards the opposite shore, effectively drawing an acoustic ' net ' across the width of Ness through which no moving object could pass undetected.

In 1947 Kahane was arrested for throwing eggs and tomatoes at Bevin, as the latter disembarked at Pier 84 on a visit to New York.

The latter's nephew Pier Francesco, who had renounced to the succession in favour to his brother Domenico to became a Dominican, was later elected pope with the name of Benedict XIII.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

One of the places that saw many memorials and candlelight vigils was Pier A in Hoboken, New Jersey, where many people saw the events of September 11 ( Pier A had a good view of the World Trade Center.

) There was also a memorial service on March 11, 2002, at dusk on Pier A when the Tribute in Light first turned on, marking the half-year anniversary of the terrorist attack.

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

Several survivors of the stayed for some time in this hotel as it is a short distance from Pier 54, the White Star Line dock where the Titanic was supposed to make landfall.

The death of his eldest son, Pier Luigi, on 28 April 1873, was the final blow which hastened his end ; he fell ill immediately, and died of cerebral meningitis.

Felice Peretti was born on December 13, 1521 at Grottammare, in the Papal States, to Pier Gentile ( also known as Peretto Peretti ), and Marianna da Frontillo.

As Municipal Pier # 2 ( Municipal Pier # 1 was never built ), Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure.