Some World War II – vintage ships were modernized for anti-submarine warfare, and to extend their service lives, to avoid having to build ( expensive ) brand-new ships.

Some historians have speculated that since Rome lacked advanced naval technology the design of the warships was probably copied verbatim from captured Carthaginian triremes and quinqueremes or from ships that had beached on Roman shores due to storms.

Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts.

Some of the ships were hit by torpedoes from Soviet submarines in the Baltic Sea on the route West.

Some stayed in use for decades after World War II ; the Mark I Fire Control Computer was deployed by the United States Navy on a variety of ships from destroyers to battleships.

Some hotels, resorts, and even cruise ships across America, Europe and Israel also undergo a thorough housecleaning to make their premises " kosher for Pesach " to cater to observant Jews.

Some of its key military export projects include T-155 Firtina self-propelled artillery for Turkey ; K11 air-burst rifle for United Arab Emirates ; Bangabandhu class guided-missile frigate for Bangladesh ; fleet tankers such as Sirius class for the navies of Australia, New Zealand, and Venezuela ; Makassar class amphibious assault ships for Indonesia ; and KT-1 trainer for Turkey and Indonesia.

Some jurisdictions require a license when a certain size is exceeded ( e. g., a length of 20 meters ), others only require licenses to pilot passenger ships, ferries or tugboats.

Some observers allege that most of these spoils were lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax off Prospect during a storm on the night of November 24, 1814, even though Fantome had no inolvement in that action.

Some countries have a special flag worn by recreational boats or ships that indicates the nationality of the vessel.

Some ships were so seriously undermanned, missing as many as 200 men, that not all of their guns could be manned.

Some convoys contained several hundred merchant ships.

Some 2, 000 ships and 320, 000 men from the Danube enter Roman territory.

Some settled in Illinois, many to farm or to seek success in commercial ventures: for example, the sailing ships Sully ( in May 1843 ) and Iowa ( in June 1844 ) brought families who set up homes in northern Illinois and northern Indiana.

Some ships can carry over, for example the Emma Mærsk, 396 m long, launched August 2006.

Some crews were treated as harshly as naval crews of the time, while others followed the comparatively relaxed rules of merchant ships.

Some Expanded Universe material refer to these ships as " Star Dreadnoughts ".

Some classes above may now be considered obsolete as no ships matching the class are in current service.

Some ships returned to Russia or were interned in neutral ports.

Some modification of the engine systems on those ships was undertaken to permit the burning of a lower grade of fuel ( i. e., marine diesel ).

Some ships of his refugee fleet were sent south, mostly to Florida, but the rumor that their black passengers were resold into slavery appears to be based on propaganda stories circulated by the anti-British forces at the time.

Some concept artwork of the Arsenal Ship was produced, some images bearing the number " 72 ," possibly hinting at an intent to classify the arsenal ships as a battleship, since the last battleship ordered ( but never built ) was USS Louisiana ( BB-71 ).

Some of the oldest surviving European ship models have been those of early craft such as galleys, galleons, and possibly carracks, dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries and found occasionally mounted in churches, where they were used in ceremonies to bless ships and those who sailed in them, or as votive offerings for successful voyages or surviving peril at sea, a practice which remained common in Catholic countries until the 19th century.

Some sailing ships use traditional ship's bells to tell the time and regulate the watch system, with the bell being rung once for every half hour into the watch and rung eight times at watch end ( a four-hour watch ).

Some amateur astronomers use home-made radio telescopes, while others use radio telescopes that were originally built for astronomy research but have since been made available for use by amateurs.

Some of these were built during a period of war between Bolivia and Paraguay, in order to transport Bolivian troops and their supplies to the war front in the lowlands of southeastern Bolivia and western Paraguay.

Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

Some early AGP boards used graphics processors built around PCI and were simply bridged to AGP.

Some heavy metro infrastructures were built in Brussels, Antwerp and the Charleroi area, but these are currently used by light rail vehicles, and their conversion to full metro is not envisaged at present due to lack of funds.

Some computers were built using " writable microcode " — rather than storing the microcode in ROM or hard-wired logic, the microcode was stored in a RAM called a writable control store or WCS.

Some clavichords have been built with a single pair of strings for each note.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

Some conventional destroyers were completed in the late 1940s and 1950s which built on wartime experience.

Some have seen it more as an aspiration, which has been successfully realised in the short term by commitment to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity ( these being built into financially independent local cooperatives and small family businesses ), though proponents also cite such periods as the Middle Ages as examples of the historical long-term viability of distributism.

Some instruments may not have a neck joint at all, having the neck and sides built as one piece and the body built around it.

Some 2. 6 million people had fled East Germany by 1961 when he built the Berlin Wall to stop them — shooting those who attempted it.

Some hotels are built specifically to create a captive trade, example at casinos and holiday resorts.

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Treehotel near Piteå, Sweden, the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica ; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya ; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon ; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

Some modern instruments are built with keyboards which can be shifted sideways, allowing the player to align the mechanism with strings at either a = 415 Hz or a = 440 Hz.

Some historians have argued that Stalin was also planning to send millions of Jews to four large newly built labor camps in Western Russia using a " Deportation Commission " that would purportedly act to save Soviet Jews from an engraged Soviet population after the Doctors Plot trials.

Some macro systems are self-contained programs, but others are built into complex applications ( for example word processors ) to allow users to repeat sequences of commands easily, or to allow developers to tailor the application to local needs.

Some researchers have explored the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce incentives for resource sharing and cooperation, arguing that the social aspect missing from today's P2P systems should be seen both as a goal and a means for self-organized virtual communities to be built and fostered.

Some historians of music have pointed to important and innovative developments that built on rock and roll in this period, including multitrack recording, developed by Les Paul, the electronic treatment of sound by such innovators as Joe Meek, and the Wall of Sound productions of Phil Spector, continued desegregation of the charts, the rise of surf music, garage rock and the Twist dance craze.

Some telephones include a small dial built into the handset, with a movable finger stop.

Some manufacturers therefore built transmitters that supplied + 5 V and-5 V and labeled them as " RS-232 compatible ".

Some railways were built only for tourist purposes as the Gornergrat or the Jungfraujoch, Europe's highest station in the Bernese Oberland, at an altitude of 3, 454 metres ( 11, 330 ft .).

Some possess two-or three-story homes built out of brick and concrete which they have inhabited for years.

Some point to New York's seven-floor Equitable Life Assurance Building, built in 1870, as an early skyscraper for its innovative use of a kind of skeletal frame, but such designation depends largely on what factors are chosen.