Identifying the danger this posed to the French flagship, Captain Hallowell directed his gun crews to fire their cannon directly into the blaze.

However the French ships were hampered by their inadequate deployment, reduced crews and the failure of the rear division under Villeneuve to meaningfully participate, all of which contributed to their defeat.

It is still visited on occasion by fishermen, French Navy patrols, scientific researchers, film crews, and shipwreck survivors.

Shooting on location, with smaller crews, would also happen in the French New Wave, the filmmakers taking advantage of advances in technology allowing smaller, handheld cameras and synchronized sound to film events on location as they unfolded.

* Black Sea mutiny ( 1919 ) by crews aboard the French dreadnoughts-Jean Bart and France-sent to assist the White Russians in the Russian Civil War.

Based in Ottawa, 90 % of its staff was English and the few French Canadians in production worked with English crews.

Soon, some French gun crews were reduced to such a point that Napoleon asked for volunteers among the Guard infantry, in order to replace the losses.

A few of them were recaptured by the French and Spanish prisoners overcoming the small prize crews or by ships sallying from Cádiz.

The French air crews operated the transports while Laotians were being trained.

Ney ’ s cavalry also failed to spike enemy cannons ( driving an iron spike into the firing hole ) while they were under French control ( during the cavalry attack, the crews of the cannon retreated into the squares for protection, and then re-manned their pieces as the horsemen receded ).

In this instance, the melee was planned ; Admiral Nelson used the superior fighting qualities of his crews to offset the greater French and Spanish numbers.

Because they were light, they were used temporarily during the early part of World War I to arm observation crews on French military aircraft.

It was aloft for eight years and ten months ( a record not broken until Mir ), during which time it was visited by 10 crews constituting six main expeditions and four secondary flights ( including French and Indian cosmonauts ).

Free French aircraft flew off from Ark Royal and landed at the airport, but the crews were taken prisoner.

The lopsided casualty figures were due to the fact that the French sought to disable and capture enemy ships, while the British sought to kill or injure enemy gun crews.

The ultimatum demanded that the ships and their crews either join the war effort or sail with reduced crews to a British port, promising that the ships would be repatriated at the end of the war or compensation paid for damages to them, and giving them the option of sailing to a French port in the West Indies where they could be demilitarized or temporarily given to the United States until the end of the war.

By this time the French crews were exhausted and disheartened.

They continued to operate with French crews, primarily in convoy escort and patrol duties in the Aegean, until Greece entered the war on the side of the Allies in June 1917, at which point they were returned to Greece.

Over 600 French 75mm guns were destroyed by premature explosions in 1915, and their crews killed or injured.

The French ships responded with antiaircraft fire and shot down two of them, and their crews were rescued by the destroyer HMS Wrestler.

Currently French law permits free parties with 500 people or under ( subject to no noise complaints ), and while Prefets generally refuse the applications now required for free parties with over 500 people, through constant negotiations with the Ministry of Interior since the August 2002 teknival on the French / Italian frontier at Col de l ’ Arches where sound crews set up rigs inside the Italian border facing the party goers in France,

Despite a poor weather, on the first day, fifteen crews reached Saint-Inglevert near Calais, 1058 km away ( among them, 6 British crews, 4 French, 3 Polish and only 2 German ).

Both acts granted the president power to issue letters of marque and detailed regulations as to the conditions on which letters of marque should be granted to private vessels, the conduct and behavior of the officers and crews of such vessels, and the disposal of such prizes made by privateer crews.

As a further measure of economy, on 24 March the Duke of York had ordered the discharge of most of the crews of the prize vessels, leaving only three guard ships at the Medway ; in compensation the crew of one of them, the frigate Unity ( former Dutch Eendracht, the first ship to be captured in 1665, from the privateer Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest ) was raised from forty to sixty ; also the number of fireships was increased from one to three.

The cabin crews were attired in Pierre Cardin-designed uniforms and passengers ate with golden cutlery and listened to the stylings of a pianist in the first class cabin.

Councilman William D. Schaefer ( D., Fifth ) said in a letter to Mayor Grady that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month.

These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.

This time the Prussians were able to storm the great Bavarian battery, and overwhelm the guns ' crews.

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.

Their age and battered state meant that neither Conquérant nor Aquilon were considered fit for active service in the Royal Navy and both were subsequently hulked, although they had been bought into the service for £ 20, 000 ( the equivalent of £ as of ) each as HMS Conquerant and HMS Aboukir to provide a financial reward to the crews that had captured them.

However, the Western Allies ' air-to-ground aircraft were so greatly feared out of proportion to their actual tactical success, that following the lead up to Operation Overlord German vehicle crews showed reluctance to move en masse during daylight.

The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.

In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.

A total of 15 Moon walks were performed by members of six Apollo crews, including Charles " Pete " Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene " Gene " Cernan and Dr. Harrison " Jack " Schmitt.

The Skylab 2 crew made three EVAs, and a total of ten EVAs were made by the three Skylab crews.

Upon his return to the astronaut corps in Houston, he played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface.

The crew of the Apollo 13 mission survived despite an explosion caused by a faulty oxygen tank ( 1970 ); the crews of Soyuz 11 ( 1971 ), the Space Shuttles Challenger ( 1986 ) and Columbia ( 2003 ) were killed by malfunctions of their vessels ' components.

In the fleet itself, complaints were beginning to be made in 1908 about underfunding and shortages of crews for the new ships.

After the end of World War I, the bulk of the Navy's modern ships ( 74 in all ) were interned at Scapa Flow where the entire fleet ( with a few exceptions ) was scuttled by its crews on 21 June 1919 on orders from its commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.

Both of these crews were from Harlem.

The U-boat commander, Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein, and his crew immediately commenced rescue operations and were joined by the crews of other U-boats in the area.

Gatling guns were targeted by artillery they could not reach and their crews were targeted by snipers they could not see.

In World War II, machine pistols were carried by platoon leaders, artillery crews, and tank crews.

* Outpost and Support Point line ( 2 ): Approximately behind the border, a line of anti-tank blockhouses were intended to provide resistance to armoured assault sufficient to delay the enemy so as to allow the crews of the " C. O. R. F.

* Safety Quarters ( 11 ) were built near the major fortifications in order to make it possible for fortress (" ouvrage ") crews to reach their battle stations within the shortest possible time in the event of a surprise or sneak attack during peacetime.