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

Ships in a class often have names linked by a common factor: e. g. Trafalgar-class submarines ’ names all begin with T (,, ); and Ticonderoga-class cruisers are named after American battles (,,, ).

Ships often returned to sea loaded with ballast rather than goods for export, and gradually the balance of traffic moved to the west, resulting in the closure of the terminal docks at Salford.

Ships in the passage are often good platforms for the sighting of whales, dolphins and plentiful seabirds including giant petrels, other petrels, albatrosses and penguins.

Ships in ordinary often had their stores and guns removed, as well as their masts.

The series is often thought to have ended in 1972 with Tim's Last Voyage but that was, in fact, followed in 1977 by Ships Cook Ginger.

: Category: Boats is included as a sub-category of " Ships by type " for vessels often considered as boats.

* Ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service and the US Coast Guard were often placed under the authority of the US Navy during times of war.

Ships passing through the Strait saluted Our Lady as they passed Europa Point and mariners often came ashore with gifts to the shrine.

Ships are often used to represent the Knanaya diaspora as it is neutral symbol to ease religious tensions.

It is often today referred to as their first album whatsoever, with their first three cassette albums ( Show of Hands, Tall Ships and Out for the Count ) being dropped from the canon ( and replaced with the Backlog album ) and are generally referred to as demo albums due to them being recorded in home studios with little production.

In addition, people with disfiguring medical conditions have often been shunned by their communities, so medical treatment from Mercy Ships can also help relieve the stigma and isolation that they have experienced.

Another special event is the Tall Ships Parade, often led by the Gorch Fock, with more than 100 tall ships and traditional sailing ships and hundreds of yachts.

Ships are now often deploying to aid regional African navies, of which the most important in the region is the Nigerian Navy.

Ships often sat for days waiting to be unloaded.

He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.

Subsequently, Rickover became chief of a new section in the Bureau of Ships, the Nuclear Power Division, and began work with Alvin M. Weinberg, the Oak Ridge director of research, both to establish the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology and to begin the design of the pressurized water reactor for submarine propulsion.

In 1911, the Bureau of Construction and Repair published " Ships Data US Naval Vessels ", which subsequently became the " Ships Data Book " in 1952 under the Bureau of Ships.

Later, Bengtsson became widely known for his Viking saga novel Röde Orm ( The Long Ships ), published in two parts in 1941 and 1945.

In February 1951, he became Chief of the Bureau of Ships, a post he held until August 1953, when he took command of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

The shipbuilding operations became BAE Systems Marine, which subsequently became part of BVT Surface Fleet, a naval shipbuilding joint venture between BAE Systems and VT Group, which became BAE Systems Surface Ships in 2009.

In July 8, 1853, when Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships arrived to force the opening of Japan, Manjirō became an interpreter and translator for the Shogunate and was instrumental in negotiating the Convention of Kanagawa.

STI grew out of the Sail Training International Race Committee, which organised the first Tall Ships ' Race in 1956, and developed into the International Sail Training Association, which became Sail Training International in 2002.

Since it was considered dangerous to have large stocks of shells on board the ships that were firing them, and because the reinforced mortar platforms occupied so much space below decks, bomb vessels were usually accompanied by a tender to carry ammunition as well as the ordnance officers in charge of firing the mortars. However as naval warfare became more advanced ' Bomb Ships ' were also accompanied by normal cannon holding frigates to protect them from direct assault, by faster, smaller vessels.

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.

Starbuck was marooned on a desert planet, although the script for the episode " The Wheel of Fire " ( unfilmed at the time of cancellation ) indicated that Starbuck was eventually rescued from the planet by the inhabitants of the Ships of Light and became one of their inhabitants.

Together, all the Maritime Commission's shipbuilding program became known as Ships for Victory and great pride was taken in it by the many thousands of ordinary citizens went to work in the shipyards and joined the ranks of the shipbuilding workforce.

These ships became known as the kurofune, the Black Ships.

The concept of taking dental capabilities to the Fleet became so popular that in August 1945, plans were authorized to build four Dental Clinic Ships … but these plans were cancelled when the war ended.

In addition, he became a member of apocalyptic Christian folk legends Current 93 touring group, playing shows in Europe in support of the Black Ships Ate The Sky album.

The latter was merged into a BAE Systems / VT Group joint venture, BVT Surface Fleet in 2008, which subsequently became BAE Systems Surface Ships in 2009.

He continued on to have a successful naval career and became an Admiral, appointed ' Admiral of the King's Ships on the coast of Ireland ' for the rest of his career.

Ships of the company were also shifting from one company to another, like the Belgic, built for the White Star Line, which was transferred to the service of the Red Star Line under the name, or the Regina became the Westernland.

Ships spent large amounts of time at sea, before the strategic situation became clearer and the fear of immediate German raids diminished.

Ships with more advanced engines can process heavier, more viscous, and thus cheaper, fuel.

Ships that have a speed factor of seven or eight are thus automatically able to move two spaces, and are therefore very valuable.

Shortly after Professor Laughton published his " Jenkins's Ear " research in the English Historical Review, a Royal Navy colleague wrote, on 26 October 1889, to inform the historian: " I have a curious book connected with the subject, published in London in 1739, entitled England's Triumph: or a complete History of the many signals victories gained by the Royal Navy & Merchant Ships of Great Britain, for the term of 40 years past over the insulting & haught Spaniards by Captain Charles Jenkins, who has too severely felt the effects of Spanish tyranny.

Ships laden with wheat from North Africa sail 300 miles to Rome's port of Ostia in 3 days, and the 1, 000 mile voyage from Alexandria averages 13 days.

Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves ; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage.

Ships ( but not their contents ) of over 250 tons ( but not hovercraft ) are exempt unless the voyage itself was the offence that caused the seizure, or the ship was being chased.

Ships transported Hodgson's beers to India, among them his October beer, which benefited exceptionally from conditions of the voyage and was apparently highly regarded among its consumers in India.

She was not officially qualified, but nurses were badly needed ; she was accepted and assigned to " Dark Ships ": transports that ran with all lights off between Australia and England carrying war goods and soldiers one way, and wounded soldiers and trade goods on the return voyage.