Ships of this classification are some of the largest ( see Busse ) longships ever discovered.

Ships and boats are not necessarily wrecked: some are deliberately abandoned, scuttled or beached.

* In The Long Ships or Red Orm ( original title: Röde Orm ), a best-selling Swedish novel written by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, the plot takes place some decades later-a large part of it in the court of the aging Harald, shortly before the outbreak of the rebellion of his son Swen.

These four boats were essentially the Crouch design, modified in some details by the Bureau of Ships.

The British system used fairly large solid fuel rockets to shoot planes ( typically the Hawker Hurricane ) off a small ramp fitted to the fronts of merchant ships, known in service as Catapult armed merchantmen ( or CAM Ships ), in order to provide some cover against German reconnaissance planes.

Ships in what is likely to be Akaroa Harbour some time in the early 19th century.

Taken together, the list of suitors matches well with the captains in the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad ; however, some of the names may have been placed in the list of Helen's suitors simply because they went to Troy.

) Act 1993 and the consolidating Merchant Shipping Act 1995 which, in Section 4, Subsection 1, prohibits the use of any distinctive national colours or those used or resembling flags or pendants on Her Majesty's Ships, " except the Red Ensign, the Union flag ( commonly known as the Union Jack ) with a white border ", and some other exceptions permitted elsewhere in the Acts.

Ships often discharged some cargo here before proceeding through the shallows upstream.

Ships carrying 125 passengers and some 1, 500 tons of equipment sailed out of Falmouth, Cornwall, landing in Veracruz three months later.

In Stalin's Slave Ships, Martin Bollinger undertakes a careful analysis of the number of prisoners who could have been transported by ship to Magadan between 1932 and 1953 ( some 900, 000 ) and the probable number of deaths each year ( averaging 27 %).

Ships became increasingly bigger and heavier, including some of the largest wooden ships ever constructed.

Later in 1968, after Deep Diver had been requisitioned by the United States Navy to help search for the lost submarine USS Scorpion, the Bureau of Ships determined that Deep Diver was unsafe for use at great depths or in extremely cold temperatures because of the substitution of the wrong kind of steel, which became brittle in cold water, in some parts of the sub.

Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route.

William Lederer, who co-authored the second film with John Fenton Murray, used some scenes lifted directly from his comic novel, All the Ships at Sea.

He was appointed, in 1870, Secretary to the St. Paul's Cathedral Completion Fund, and in 1873 Secretary to the Royal Commission on Unseaworthy Ships, and held for some time a commission in the Essex yeomanry.

The city has a attracted several large profile national events such as the 2011 Canada Winter Games and some international events such as Tall Ships Visits.

Ships are administered by volunteers with the assistance and support of some paid professional staff.

While the majority of American merchant mariners are employed by shipping businesses and accordingly wear either uniforms prescribed by their employers or civilian attire, some officers receive commissions in the United States Maritime Service for federal government duty, such as the faculty of the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the Military Sealift Command's civilian officers manning non-commissioned United States Naval Ships.

Ships of the line typically have three decks while sloops have two, although some larger sloops ( e. g. UNS Challenger ) have three decks, and are only slightly smaller than ships of the line.

The model 22 was also used by the U. S. Army and on the back of some it is marked U. S. Army, but all the model 22 movements are marked U. S. Navy Bureau of Ships.

Ships were disarmed, and some of them, such as battleship Nagato, were taken by the Allied Powers as reparation.

It is a known history that Raja Dahir people attacked some of the Arabs Merchants and their Ships.

After suggesting the idea and title to Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Saville carried the theme over to the sleeve design of their album Dazzle Ships.

Ships in Chinese canals did not have trouble reaching higher elevations after the pound lock was invented in the 10th century, during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), by the government official and engineer Qiao Weiyo.

CP Ships began with steam freighters on the Great Lakes in 1883 and chartered ships in the Pacific in 1886, but CP Ships did not begin until April 28, 1891, when the first of its Empress ships started Trans-Pacific operations.

While the war did not last long enough for anything to be done about this, the two artists did obtain a patent for their idea in 1902, titled “ Process of Treating the Outsides of Ships, etc., for Making Them Less Visible ” (), in which their method is described as having been modeled on the coloration of a seagull.

He and Crosby began meeting informally and jamming, and the result of one encounter in Florida on Crosby ’ s schooner was the song “ Wooden Ships ,” composed in collaboration with another guest, Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner.

The psychological shock of the Western " Black Ships " and the subsequent collapse of the shogunate convinced many that the nation needed to unify in order to resist being colonized by outside forces.

Ships were not so limited, because their sails were smaller relative to the hull, distributing forces more evenly, over more masts.

In the 1940s, Cooper played a role in the U. S. World War II effort, supplying engine components that powered almost all of the ships in the Navy ’ s minesweeper fleet, as well as the famous Liberty Ships, which carried 75 % of the cargo used by Allied armed forces.

Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the Iliad's Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to the Boeotian city of Graea.

These Liberty Ships were also used as the Navy's support vessel for its fleet of warships and to ferry forces across the Pacific and Atlantic.

English logoFrench logoEnglish: Canadian Forces Radio and Television ( CFRT ), French: Radiotélévision des Forces canadiennes ( RTFC ), is a television and radio network system broadcast by satellite to those members of the Canadian Forces ground forces who are serving overseas in places such as the Middle East, Africa and Europe and, due to popular demand, the service began broadcasting to Her Majesty's Canadian Ships in April 2002.

The name Graea ( γραία ) is derived from Proto Greek grau-j ," old lady ". Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the Iliads Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to a region named Graea, and Pausanias mentions that the ancient city of Tanagra was for a time called Graea, adding that " no one knows where this Graia really was ; Aristotle thought it was near Oropus, further east on the same coast as Delion.

Ships which are used to infiltrate spies or special forces are sometimes also called " spy ships ".

Ships from the West Coast rotated on six-month tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet, and Yokosuka was the Seventh Fleet's principal port for maintenance, upkeep and shore liberty.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

* 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

Madrid, Aug. 28. Letters from Lisbon bring the following Account from Rio Janeiro: That the St. Augustine, of 70 Guns, having being separated from the Squadron of M. Casa Tilly, was attacked by two Portugueze Ships, against which they defended themselves for a Day and a Night, but being next Day surrounded by the Portugueze Fleet, was obliged to surrender.

* Baptism of Ships: at least since the time of the Crusades, rituals have contained a blessing for ships.

Ships and planes behave in the Triangle the same way they behave everywhere else in the world.

*" More Ships Hunt For Missing Cyclops ", The New York Times, April 16, 1918.

*" Piracy Suspected In Disappearance Of 3 American Ships ", The New York Times, June 21, 1921.

*" More Ships Added To Mystery List ", The New York Times, June 22, 1921.

*" Comb Seas For Ships ", The Washington Post, June 22, 1921.

*" Port Of Missing Ships Claims 3000 Yearly ", The Washington Post, July 10, 1921.

Throughout the Seven Year War in Korea, the Chinese-Korean coalition used artillery widely, in both land and naval battles, including on the Turtle Ships of Yi Sun-sin.

Ships also use them to launch torpedoes and deploy bombs against submarines.

:* Ships by type: Cargo 1 ( 1999 est.

* David R. MacGregor, Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775 – 1875 Naval Institute Press, 1988 ISBN 0-87021-895-6 index

* Endeavour Project – Clippers on Endeavour Tall Ships Project.

Prior to 2001, COMPSRON 2 consisted of up to 20 ships, including four Combat Force Ships which provided rapid-response delivery of equipment to ground troops in the US Army.

Ships were built at dockyards along the riverside.

Ships may be lost if the attack is unsuccessful, but after three successful attacks, the pirate fortress is converted into a settlement.

After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.