* The Ships of Earth ( 1994 )

In Transformers: Cybertron, a large force of Decepticons freed by Starscream were ordered to turn into Seeker Ships to scour the Earth.

When she accompanies her father on a trading mission to the planet Grainau, Mia learns from the children of a Grainau official that the feeling is mutual ; many on the colony worlds call Ship people " Grabbies " because they take whatever goods they cannot produce on the Ships in return for knowledge and technology ( doled out sparingly ), the heritage of Earth to which the ship residents have laid claim and which colonists are unable to maintain, being too busy staying alive.

Mia and Jimmy's mentor, Joseph Mbele, believes that the Ships have an obligation to assist the colonists by sharing their knowledge, which Daniel Kutsov says is the heritage of all who survived the destruction of Earth.

* About the novel The Ships of Earth from Card's website

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The stereotypical contactee account in these days involved not just conversations with friendly, human-appearing spacemen but visits inside their flying saucers, and rides to large " Mother Ships " in Earth orbit, and even jaunts to the moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.

** Ships of Merior ( 1994 )

* Casson, Lionel, " The Age of the Supergalleys " in Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times, University of Texas Press, 1994.

* The Men Who Sailed the Liberty Ships ( 1994 )

Mercy Ships purchased the Norwegian coastal ferry Polarlys in 1994 and transformed it into the MV Caribbean Mercy, a hospital ship serving Central American and Caribbean ports.

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

The Flotilla is the core component of the Navy, and consists of the Mine Countermeasures Squadron, the Patrol Ships Squadron, and the Harbour Boats Group.

The Lizard's coast is particularly hazardous to shipping and the seaways round the peninsula were historically known as the " Graveyard of Ships " ( see below ).

Stier is the only commerce raider to be sunk by Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships.

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

The Townes van Zandt song, " The Silver Ships of Andilar ", makes mention of a land called Valinor, although it is unclear if it is meant to be the same location, since van Zandt describes it as a lifeless plain.

While it is perhaps not quite a match for Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's genre-defining 1941 novel Röde Orm ( later expanded and better known as The Long Ships ), Bengtsson had the advantage of being culturally closer to his sources.

The Tall Ships Festival is held in September.

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.

This flag's design is also described in the 1704 edition of The Present State of the Universe by John Beaumont, Junior, which contains as an appendix The Ensigns, Colours or Flags of the Ships at Sea: Belonging to The several Princes and States in the World.

The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships ( DANFS for short ) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy.

Ships are typically very difficult to attack: a direct hit or extremely near miss is needed to do any serious damage, and hitting a target as small as a ship was difficult during WWII.

Further, the German Navy is going to build new corvettes ( dubbed K131 ), the new F125 class frigates, two Joint Support Ships and two more Type 212 submarines.

Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, which in turn owns other subsidiaries such as Hapag-Lloyd Ships and a cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises which is now integrated into TUI AG, Hanover.

In the Iliad, he is killed during the Battle of the Ships by Idomeneus, in a passage in which he is cited as gleefully mocking him while Othryoneus is dying.

Ships in the Federation's navy include gunboats, which appeared in The 08th MS Team and an aircraft carrier, but the total number of ships and their types is not known.

Marpol 73 / 78 is the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978.

In the United States, for example, the relevant implementation legislation is the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

Ships can usually reach a speed of 3. 5 light years per day ; the real limitation of the Stutterwarp drive is that it can only propel a ship up to a maximum of 7. 7 light years before it needs to enter a gravity well and discharge lethal radiation that would otherwise kill the crew.

However, the label is returning to its former stature as a premier old-school hardcore label with strong releases from newer bands like Down to Nothing, Shook Ones, and Sinking Ships.

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 ).

At the end of Palmerston Road where it joins the Ladies Mile a plaque on a house records that it was once the home of Fred Jane, the creator of the standard naval reference book Jane ’ s Fighting Ships.

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.

His book Lost Ships of Guadalcanal locates and photographs many of the vessels sunk in the infamous Ironbottom Sound, the strait between Guadalcanal Island and the Floridas in the Solomon Islands.

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 built in this manner were written of in Zhu Yu's book Pingzhou Table Talks, published by 1119 AD during the Song Dynasty.

The book includes Stainer's arrangements of what were to become the standard versions of " What Child Is This ", " God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen ", " Good King Wenceslas ", " The First Nowell ", and " I Saw Three Ships ", among others.

Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book ( also published online, on CD and microfiche ) of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ship's names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc.

The 1964 British-Yugoslav film The Long Ships is loosely based on the book.

It is possible that the " Trojan Battle Order " ( the list of Trojans and their allies, of Iliad 2. 816-876, which forms an appendix to the " Catalogue of Ships ") is abridged from that in the Cypria, which was known to contain in its final book a list of the Trojan allies.