Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".

In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.

He was then awarded the Board of Trade Silver Medal in May 1886 for rescuing the crew of a capsized steamer near Gibraltar when on HMS Monarch as a gunnery lieutenant.

Warfare in the early 20th century ( 1914 – 1918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.

* Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.

The sea serpent spotted by the crew of HMS Daedalus in 1848.

He was a crew member of HMS Hood and was transferred off the ship shortly before she was sunk, losing all but three men.

The first known European contact was with Captain Bligh and the crew of the HMS Bounty when they discovered Aitutaki on April 11, 1789, prior to the infamous mutiny.

The largest, the English flagship HMS Royal Charles, was abandoned by its skeleton crew, captured without a shot being fired, and towed back to the Netherlands as a trophy.

The mutineers turning Lt. Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from His Majesty's Ship HMS Bounty | Bounty, 29 April 1789.

The town established the rescue lifeboat in response to the wreck of HMS Brazen in January 1800 when only one man of her crew of some 105 men could be saved.

As a broadcaster, Price was the original " No. 1 " in charge of the crew of HMS Troutbridge in the first series of the long-running radio comedy series The Navy Lark in 1959, but unable to continue the role in the second series because of other work commitments, he was replaced by Stephen Murray.

The crew from two cargo ships, the Northumberland and Taranaki, also joined the rescue works, while two cruisers, HMS Diomede and HMS Dunedin, were dispatched from Auckland that afternoon with food, tents, medicine, blankets, and a team of doctors and nurses.

The first HMS Monmouth was named after the town but whilst the second one was being used the Monmouth Rebellion took place and this caused some concern to the crew.

HMS Jason was raked by machine gun fire, killing and wounding several of her crew.

Brought into service with the Royal Navy, the crew subsequently renamed her HMS Tiger Bay.

* In 1780, HMS Vulture, a Swan class sloop bearing 16 six-pounders and a crew of 99 seamen delivered Major John Andre to his meeting with General Benedict Arnold, near Haverstraw, N. Y., to finalize plans for Arnold's surrender of West Point to the British.

The first known European sighting of Rotuma was in 1791, when Captain Edward Edwards and the crew of HMS Pandora landed in search of sailors who had disappeared following the Mutiny on the Bounty.

They steal the HMS Interceptor and acquire a crew in Tortuga before heading to Isla de Muerta, where Elizabeth is being held captive.

On 2 May, the Belgrano was sunk by the submarine HMS Conqueror, and after 368 of her crew lost their lives, the Argentine Navy withdrew to territorial waters and played no further part in the conflict.

" It was Hendrik Hudson and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel ' Half Moon " who, in 1609, first spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook.

At the Observatory Theater in Santa Ana, California on September 11th, 2012, the stage crew was spotted with small digital video cameras strapped to their chests.

The band's Van Hool crew bus, in transit with another bus carrying the band members, pulled over onto a hard shoulder, just after J22 Eastbound, after driver Colin Campbell of Silvergray Tour Busing spotted smoke and flames billowing out of the back of his vehicle.

One farcical situation occurred owing to the aforementioned French inter-service rivalry: a Potez reconnaissance aircraft crew had allegedly spotted a huge concentration of Panzers and supporting infantry units concealed in the Ardennes forests two days after the start of the invasion – yet the army commanders refused to take any action because they believed that the air force was indulging itself in scaremongering.

During the trip, the ship spotted the schooner Penelope, property of the FIC, which was taken over by an Argentine Prize crew the following day.

It was rediscovered by the British in 1767, and named after the crew member who first spotted the island.

One of the German U Boats heading to the Python to be refuelled spotted HMS Dunedin and sank her with a loss of 350 of her 500 man crew.

However, at about 15: 00 on 1 March, the crew of a patrolling B-24 Liberator heavy bomber spotted the convoy.

Fortunately for the crew, the boat was not spotted during the moments before the crew could regain full control.

In January, 1867, the Courier de Dieppe was spotted floundering in a gale off Dymchurch, with the crew clinging to the rigging and one by one dropping off into the sea.

The first Europeans to see the island were the crew of William R. Broughton's ship HMS Chatham, who spotted it in 1791.

In the present day, a salvage crew — Captain Sean Murphy ( Gabriel Byrne ), Maureen Epps ( Julianna Margulies ), Greer ( Isaiah Washington ), Dodge ( Ron Eldard ), Munder ( Karl Urban ), and Santos ( Alex Dimitriades )— is celebrating a recent success at a bar, when Jack Ferriman ( Desmond Harrington ), a Canadian weather service pilot, approaches them and says he has spotted a mysterious vessel running adrift in the Bering Sea.

Myth tells that on the day of the islands discovery, Gonçalo Velho Cabral and his crew were celebrating mass ( on the feast day of the Virgin Mary ), when one of the lookouts spotted the distant island, declaring " Santa Maria ": this name would become linked permanently to the island.

Recently, Atlantic Great White Sharks were spotted and tagged by the crew of the F / V Ezyduzit.

" Oakland ARTCC realized that the smoke spotted by the United air crew was likely caused by the crash of Pacific Air Lines Flight 773.

A news crew spotted David fleeing the scene and he was arrested.

Later that evening, he and three other men were spotted sitting in deck chairs receiving fellatio from four women, which was also observed by the crew in a public area of the boat.

The crew survived on shellfish and coconuts until spotted by a Lockheed Hudson patrol aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and were picked up the following day by the YMS-1 class minesweeper YMS-89 of the US Navy and taken to Tongatabu.

The rescue operation started only after a bomber pilot on routine patrol spotted the crew.

The C-130 crew spotted the fires and dropped flares, but even though the crew reported their sighting when they returned to their base at Ubon, Thailand, the fires were not recognized by intelligence as having been a signal from a survivor.

Having travelled for 65 days against the force of the Gulf Stream and westerly winds, at an average speed of two miles per hour since leaving England, the crew of the Mayflower first spotted land on November 9, 1620.