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.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

Ships of this type are armed with a large phaser cannon ( possibly a plasma cannon ).

Ships and locomotives equipped with turbocharged Diesel engines began appearing in the 1920s.

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.

* October – Ships arrive in southern Italy with the Black Plague

Later during the war, his service as head of the Electrical Section in the Bureau of Ships brought him a Legion of Merit and gave him experience in directing large development programs, choosing talented technical people, and working closely with private industry.

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.

Ships sailing in convoys were far less likely to be sunk, even when not provided with any escort at all.

Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, Decoy Vessels, Special Service Ships, or Mystery Ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.

Ships and Minds also have a slightly distasteful view of SC procedure associated with M32, one Ship Mind going so far as to object to the standard SC attitude of " Full scale, stark raving M32 don't-talk-about-this-or-we'll-pull-your-plugs-out-baby paranoia " on the use of the encryption ( Excession ).

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.

Regulus II-equipped boats and ships would have been fitted out with the Ships Inertial Navigation System ( SINS ), allowing the missiles to be aligned accurately before take-off.

Much of Battleline Publications line, including Wooden Ships and Iron Men and the Diplomacy variant based on Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli was republished by Avalon Hill, along with the popular Diplomacy.

Ships with maximum length and width can pass through five locks.

Russell explains that she had become delusional after worldwide mass hysteria over the " hallucinations with the big yellow spaceships " ( Vogon Ships ).

) 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.

The best-known tracks include " Volunteers ," " We Can Be Together ," " Good Shepherd ," and the post-apocalyptic " Wooden Ships ," which Paul Kantner co-wrote with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and Crosby, Stills & Nash also recorded on their debut album.

Ships with more masts number them.

A city named after her was recorded in the Iliad's Catalogue of Ships which has been tentatively identified with the ruins of Gla.

Although Follett begins his book with Austin Poole's account of the White Ships sinking to set the historical scene for the subsequent events, in many other ways Follett uses the war as a location for a story about essentially modern personalities and issues, a feature reproduced in the epic costume TV adaptation.

On the second Saturday of each May since 1964, the " Sailing Masters of 1812 " of Essex commemorate the " Burning of the Ships " with an ancient fife and drum corps parade down Main Street and ceremony at the steamboat dock, wearing the United States naval uniform of that period ; by tradition, this event is unpublicized.

Ships by type: cargo 26, passenger 2, passenger / cargo 9, petroleum tanker 46, roll on / roll off 3, specialized tanker 3

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 which captured slavers while deployed with the African Squadron include Yorktown, Constellation, and the second Constellation, which captured Cora on September 26, 1860, with 705 Africans on board.

Ships that served with this militia until the creation of the Naval Reserve included the protected cruiser USS Chicago ( 1885 ) which served from 26 April 1916 to April 1917 and the ironclad USS Wolverine ( IX-31 ) which served for 11 years making summer training cruises for the Naval Reserve.

Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a naval board wargame in which the players simulate combat by sailing ships of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Ships carrying native peoples as slaves began to leave New England ports for places far away late in 1675, and by the next summer the shipping out of slaves had turned into a regular process that removed what was considered dangerous native males by stating that “ no male captive above the age of fourteen years should reside in the colony .” That fall, they had King Philip ’ s nine-year-old son in their hands and not known what to do with him-some wanted to execute the boy-but in the end he, as his mother had been, was shipped off as a slave.

* Ships beginning with " W " of the V and W class, built late in World War I.

In the late 1990s the two schooners ( Malcolm Miller and Sir Winston Churchill ) then owned by the Tall Ships Youth Trust ( then called the Sail Training Association ) were showing their age and becoming increasingly expensive to maintain.

Ships with a large crew maximum tended to be more powerful in the late game, but more vulnerable at the start.

CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company that was purchased by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005.

CP Ships itself was bought-out in late 2005 by TUI AG, and merged with Hapag-Lloyd in mid-2006.

The Mercy Ships 2012 field service in Conakry marks the third visit by a Mercy Ship to Guinea, which was also visited by the earlier Mercy ShipAnastasis ( now retired ).

The 2012 Field Service in Lomé, Togo, marks the fifth visit of Mercy Ships to the West African country.

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

Ships of up to 10, 000 tons can navigate more than on the Yangtze as far as Wuhan.

The Crouches authorized an initial gift of $ 100, 000 specifically for Friend Ships ' effort, and also sending 10, 000 Bibles for distribution to affected areas.

On the 10 January 1946, Le Corbusier on a visit to New York met with Henry J. Kaiser, an American industrialist whose Kaiser Shipyard had built Liberty Ships during World War Two.

At one point after 1621, Jan Joosten is recorded to have possessed 10 Red Seal Ships for commerce.

** Wachsmann, Shelley, " Paddled and Oared Ships Before the Iron Age ", pp. 10 – 25

The 100 ton SES 100B was built for the US Navy as a 1 / 10 scale model to test the feasibility of using hovercraft and other Surface Effect Ships in combat situations.

Ships of over 220 tons, too large to enter the harbours of Saltcoats 44. 00, Irvine 40. 00 or Ayr 123. 00 could find anchorage in 10 to 14 fathoms to 26m in an area east of, and covered by Lady Isle NS 275 293.