The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

On previous voyages, it had been in precisely such dangerous situations that he had failed as a leader and captain.

Giffen assured him that the captain and his mate had personally promised to treat the Negroes with consideration.

the room's occupants were still seated or they had been called into the hallway by an alarmed police captain.

He had never spoken once to the awed sisters, but his son had been friendly, a big fellow of fifty or more, a fishing-boat captain and powerful like the sea.

Philip Spencer had cold-bloodedly planned the murder of his captain, yet it seemed in order to chide him for a lapse of proper address.

And because fortune had favored neither the prisoner nor the red-haired captain, they would be each other's undoing.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

John Young, a captain in the United States Navy, had flown on three spaceflights prior to Apollo 16: Gemini 3, Gemini 10 and Apollo 10, which orbited the Moon.

As all the convict records had been left behind in England, he could not do so, and the court ordered the captain to make restitution.

They had also threatened to leave the island en masse with the commissioner, unless the captain avenged their wrongs.

This followed the resignation of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who had been captain for thirteen months – in which the West Indies won just one of the 14 Test matches they had competed.

The admiral ordered Hood to establish the safest course into the harbour ; the British had no charts of the depth or shape of the bay except a rough sketch map Swiftsure had obtained from a merchant captain, an inaccurate British atlas on Zealous, and a 35-year old French map aboard Goliath.

Orient < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s captain Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca was also wounded, struck in the face by flying debris and knocked unconscious, while his twelve-year old son had a leg torn off by a cannonball as he stood beside his father.

When Heureux and Mercure had cut their anchor cables to escape the exploding Orient, their crews had panicked and neither captain ( both of whom were wounded ) had managed to regain control of their ship.

The same day as the frigates arrived, Mutine was sent to Britain with despatches under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Bladen Capel, who had replaced Hardy after the latter's promotion to captain of Vanguard.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

Among other accomplishments, Fundy ports produced the fastest ship in the world, the ship Marco Polo ; the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the ship William D. Lawrence ; and the first female sea captain in the western world, Molly Kool of Alma, New Brunswick.

Dream was originally suggested as an adventure game that starred a boy named Edison, who owned a wooden sword and got into trouble with a group of pirates led by a captain named Blackeye.

After some discussion with the umpires, and after complaints by the English team that it was damaging the ball, he was urged by the Australian captain Greg Chappell to revert to a wooden bat.

* Captain Hop-Pea: Nautical captain pea with a wooden leg.

Tew ’ s crew reportedly answered with the shout, “ A gold chain or a wooden leg, we ’ ll stand with you !” The newly minted pirates proceeded to elect a quartermaster, a common pirate practice to balance the captain ’ s power.

* Captain Julio Sham, a sailor with an eye-patch and a wooden leg ( the real Julio Sham is captain of the Prospero ).

However, the partnership did not last long, Philip was a retired sea captain and believed in old, trustworthy wooden ship while Thomas believed the future was in iron ships.

It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.

Their captain is the ruthless James Hook, known as Captain James Hook or more personally Jas Hook, named after ( or predestined for ) the hook in place of his right hand, and who is obsessed with finding Peter and his Lost Boys ' secret lair and exacting revenge for the loss of his hand, which was cut off by Peter and then fed to the crocodile, which has " licked its lips after the rest of him, ever since ".

Vang Pao insisted that the captain told him the answers, and that the captain did not actually guide his hand on the paper.

Illingworth saved the English innings with a century to cement his place as captain and the Test ended in a thrilling draw with England needing 37 runs with 3 wickets in hand.

Steve Bloomer, one of the leading " players " ( professionals ) on the England team, recorded in a memoir that, as captain, the patrician Wreford-Brown on one occasion took to the field with a deep pocket in his shorts filled with gold sovereigns and pressed one of the coins into the hand of each professional goalscorer after the man had netted.

At the 2008 tournament, a replica trophy, which is the one teams are presented with on the ice after the game, broke apart as captain Chris Bruton of the victorious Spokane Chiefs tried to hand it off to a teammate after being presented the cup on the ice.

After going through the hard life of a foremast hand, at 20 years of age he was mate of Zenobia bound to Peru, and two years later he was a mercantile marine captain of the Juno bound to Rio Janeiro, and others.

William put his hand on the bowed head of the old captain, at which moment Gérard jumped out of a dark corner.

In this he represented a captain of industry who had risen to power by his own hand and refused to worship.

Marine Sub-Lieutenant ( naval rank equivalent to captain ) Sergio Andrés Dachary had arrived on Mount Longdon in the week preceding the battle, and was on hand to control the Marine-manned heavy machine-guns and sniper teams on Mount Longdon.

The 2007 music video for the song Dashboard by indie group Modest Mouse features a sea captain telling the story of how he lost his hand to a giant fish while sailing in Sargasso Sea.

Aillas, now in Avallon, learns from the captain of a Troice ship that his father lies dying ; if he dies and Aillas is not on hand, Trewan will be crowned king.

In December 2008, a snow blower accident made national headlines in the United States when Joe Sakic, the famous captain of the Colorado Avalanche hockey franchise of the National Hockey League, sustained three broken fingers and tendon damage when he attempted to clear the auger of his snowblower by hand.

On the other hand, many players captained by him regarded him as an excellent captain ; not all regarded him as good at managing people.

When the ship found itself surrounded by Turkish police vessels with Russians on board, the captain refused their demand to hand over the fugitive, announcing: “ This is English territory.

The captain who got his hook handed in his right hand.

Once, in a letter to John Jay, Robert Morris spoke of an innocuous letter from " Timothy Jones " ( Deane ) and the " concealed beauties therein ," noting " the cursory examinations of a sea captain would never discover them, but transferred from his hand to the penetrating eye of a Jay, the diamonds stand confessed at once.

And finally he put the hand down, and then reached up and gently straightened the points of the captain ’ s shirt collar, and then he sort of rearranged the tattered edges of his uniform around the wound.

However, in his Travels With Charley, Steinbeck mentions wearing a naval officer's cap, ' Given me by a British torpedo boat captain, a very gentle gentleman and a murderer ,' which phrase suggests that Steinbeck may well have observed action at first hand.

His son, now the captain of the mission, struggles with him, wrenches his hand from the throttle, and brings the ship in to a rough but safe landing.

At Headingley in the first of these three games as captain, Tennyson split his hand while fielding in the Australians ' first innings but, patched up with what Wisden called a " basket guard ", he made 63 and 36.

He also continued in the military to the age of 37, rising to the position of captain, reportedly fighting with a sword in one hand and a rosary in the other.