A year later in 881 Alfred fought a small sea battle against four Danish ships “ on the high seas ”.

Andronikos III reorganized the Byzantine navy ( consisted of 10 ships by 1332 ) and reformed the judicial system by forming a panel of four universal judges whom he designated " Universal Justices of the Romans ".

* ABCD ships, The first four steel ships built during the " New Navy " period of U. S. Naval history-Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Dolphin

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

to their left are four more anchored ships and to the left of these vessels is a distant shoreline.

The merchant marine totals 17 ships ( 1, 000 gross registered tons or more ), including four bulk, 13 cargo, one container, one liquefied gas, and three petroleum tanker ships.

Prior to 2001, COMPSRON 2 consisted of up to 20 ships, including four Combat Force Ships which provided rapid-response delivery of equipment to ground troops in the US Army.

These ships displaced 1, 850 tons and were armed with eight guns in four twin turrets and four torpedo tubes.

These were four of the most powerful ships in the world, but he positioned them so far away from his six battlecruisers that they were unable to take part in most of the engagement with Admiral Hipper's squadron of five battlecruisers.

* HMS Enterprise, any of fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy ( four others did not use the HMS prefix )

The first British frigates carried 28 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-four 9-pounder guns ( the remaining four smaller guns were carried on the quarter deck ) but soon developed into fifth-rate ships of 32 or 36 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-six 12-pounder guns, with the remaining six or ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle.

After this major setback, he set sail again on 13 December, aboard Pelican, with four other ships and 164 men.

The Ottomans scuttled the four ships present there, but the Greeks were able to salvage the Italian-built torpedo-boats Antalya and Tokat, which were commissioned into the Greek Navy as Nikopolis and Tatoi respectively.

On, a Greek Farman MF. 7, piloted by Lt. Moutousis and with Ensign Moraitinis as an observer, carried out an aerial reconnaissance of the Ottoman fleet in its anchorage at Nagara, and launched four bombs on the anchored ships.

Vortimer attacked the Saxons four times: first enclosing the Saxons in Thanet, secondly fighting at the river Derwent, the third time at Epsford, where both Horsa and Vortigern's son Catigern died, and lastly " near the stone on the shore of the Gallic sea ," where the Saxons were defeated and fled to their ships.

The first European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived in 1513 when the Portuguese were looking for a route for spices.

This reduced the service life for ships from 25 years to 20 years, allowing for faster modernisation, and increased the building rate to four capital ships per year.

Five ships were constructed rather than the usual four, one to act as a fleet flagship.

Tirpitz saw this once again as an opportunity to press for naval expansion and the continuation of the four capital ships per year building rate into 1912.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock at the home.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.

The enormous plates which had held Mr. Jack's four fried eggs and five strips of bacon were still stacked in the sink.

Within a few years various Du Pont manufactured items were filling the entire requirements of from four to seven of General Motors' eight operating divisions.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

All samplers were operated for a period of two hours except one, which was operated for four hours.

In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.

Numbers of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes were counted each year.

It ranged from those with no children, through students in various stages of pregnancy, to one 44-year-old male with four children, three of whom were teenagers.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

Three agreed, but four declined and were suspended.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.

Because of injuries to defensive linemen ( at the beginning of the season the Dolphins were down to four healthy defensive linemen ) defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger created what he called the " 53 " defense, in which versatile Bob Matheson ( number 53 ) would be used as either a defensive end in the standard 4-3 defense or as a fourth linebacker in a 3-4 defense, with Manny Fernandez at nose tackle.

Washington also had a solid defense led by linebacker Chris Hanburger ( four interceptions, 98 return yards, one touchdown ), and cornerbacks Pat Fischer ( four interceptions, 61 return yards ) and Mike Bass ( three interceptions, 53 return yards )

For example, up to 98 % of small stones ( less than in diameter ) may pass spontaneously through urination within four weeks of the onset of symptoms, but for larger stones ( in diameter ), the rate of spontaneous passage decreases to less than 53 %.

According to Pennsylvania State University's " Living Wage Calculator ", the living wage for the city is US $ 8. 02 per hour ( or $ 16, 691 per year ) for an individual and $ 25. 80 per hour ($ 53, 662 per year ) for a family of four.

In all, he broke the American record for the mile four times: once as a high school senior ( 3: 55. 3 on 27 June 1965 ), twice as a college freshman ( 3: 53. 7 on 4 June 1966 & 3: 51. 3 on 17 July 1966 ), and once as a college sophomore ( 3: 51. 1 on 23 June 1967 ).

Tim Danielson ( 1966 ) and Marty Liquori ( 1967 ) also came in under four minutes, but Ryun's high school record stood until Alan Webb ran 3: 53. 43 in 2001.

In 2008 all four statewide winners carried it, with Barack Obama receiving 53. 6 % of the county vote to 45. 2 % for John McCain.

At 1: 53 p. m. on June 16, 2005, Yucaipa experienced a magnitude 4. 9 earthquake centered four miles ( 6 km ) north of the center of town.

A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 3. 2 struck at 9: 53 pm centered at four miles ( 6 km ) east-southeast of the city of Oxnard on October 16, 2009.

There are only four railroad crossings in Itasca, from west to east: IL 53 / Rohlwing Road, Catalpa Street, Walnut Street, and CR 10 / Prospect Avenue.

County Road E, County Road Z, State Highway 13, and U. S. Highways 2 / 53 ( co-signed ) are four of the main arterial routes in the community.

Eastern Color published 12 issues of Buster Crabbe Comics from 1951 – 53, followed by Lev Gleason's The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe for four issues in 1954.

Tønsberg municipality contains four additional urban areas: Sem, with 2, 147 inhabitants of which 2, 100 live in Tønsberg and 47 live in Stokke ; Barkåker, with 1, 292 inhabitants ; Åsgårdstrand, with 2, 847 inhabitants of which 2, 794 in Horten and 53 in Tønsberg ; and Vear, with a population of 3, 502 of which 2, 263 live in Stokke and 1, 239 live in Tønsberg.

In a survey conducted in four villages near the border with Romania, when asked about their native language the interviewees stated: Moldovan 53 %, Romanian 44 %, Russian 3 %.

The road is lined with a moderate amounts of businesses, most with right-in / right-out ( RIRO ) access, as it continues southeast through Denville, narrowing to four lanes before coming to an interchange with Route 53.

The new Integrale retained the four wheel drive layout: an epicyclic centre diff with torque splitter ( 47 % to front, 53 % to rear ), Ferguson viscous coupling and Torsen rear differential.

After improvements to the harbour in 1727, St Michael's Mount became a flourishing seaport, and by 1811 there were 53 houses and four streets.

Located near the north grassy knoll on November 22, 1963, were several witnesses, three large traffic signposts, four sidewalk lamp posts, the John Neely Bryan north pergola concrete structure including its two enclosed shelters, a tool shed, one 3. 3 foot ( 1 m ) high concrete wall connected to each of the pergola shelters, ten tall, wide, low-hanging live oak trees, a 5 foot ( 1. 5 m ) tall, wooden, cornered, stockade fenceline approximately 169 feet ( 53. 6 m ) long, six street curb sewers openings, their sewer manholes and their interconnecting large pipes and numerous 2 to 6 foot ( 0. 6 to 1. 8 m ) tall bushes, trees and hedges.

In the first four years of the Dream Center's establishment, prostitution and gang violence dropped 73 %, the homicide rate dropped 28 % and rape dropped 53 %.

There have been five unconfirmed sightings ( mostly from New Zealand ), as well as a " probable " sighting near Shag Rocks and four confirmed sightings — the first two confirmed sightings occurred in 1985, within a few minutes of each other, off the Tristan da Cunha group ( first sighting at 37 ° 18 ' S, 12 ° 32 ' W ); the third in 2002 near Gough Island ( 40 ° 19 ' S, 9 ° 53 ' W ); and the fourth in 2004 south of Tasmania ( 48 ° 50 ' S, 150 ° 06 ' E ).

At least four multiples of 53 share this property: 371 =, 5141 =, 99481 =, and 8520280 =.

That gave the former ruling party 48 MPs, and the remaining 53 seats in the 101-member chamber went to four opposition parties, Alliance For European Integration.