Ruby served in the South Atlantic and West Indies, so providing experience in handling a sailing ship in all conditions, but not in the new technologies of steam.

John II set a new objective for his captains: to find a sea route to Asia by sailing around the African continent.

Since the early 15th century, Portuguese explorers, sailing in caravels, had established new southward routes to Asia, by travelling along the coast of West Africa.

From there, they sailed to the Kamchatka peninsula, preparing new ships there and sailing north ( repeating a little documented journey of Semyon Dezhnyov eighty years previously ).

Valjean was assigned a new number of 9430, but escapes from a sailing vessel after only a few months ' imprisonment, on the 16. 11. 1823, by apparently falling into the sea after a daring rescue of a sailor who had gotten stuck in a dangerous situation up in the ship's rigging.

The new Royal Family of Norway left Denmark on the Danish Royal yacht " Dannebrog " and went sailing up Oslofjord.

Further up the sheltered reaches of the Fal there are several ships laid up, awaiting sailing orders and / or new owners / charterers.

Downstream, Erith Yacht Club is very active in both competitive and social sailing, based on the edge of Crayford Marshes with consent for a new clubhouse.

Among other attractions, the Town of Rock Hall is now home port to a wide variety of award winning marinas, marine services, restaurants, fishing and sailing charters, kayak rentals, bed and breakfasts, wild life refuge, new and used sail and power boat dealerships and more.

By 1855, the gold rush was over and Westervelt, like other shipbuilders, began looking for new markets to keep his yard busy, as the shipping lines that had carried almost 2. 7 million emigrants across the Atlantic by sailing vessels between 1846 – 1855, were ordering fewer ships than before.

* boathouses for sailing and rowing, several basketball courts, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, and several new athletic fields including a new astroturf field.

In 1795, Sir Samuel Bentham, inspector of dockyards of the Royal Navy, and designer of six new sailing ships, argued for the adoption of " partitions contributing to strength, and securing the ship against foundering, as practiced by the Chinese of the present day ".

Since the Omega Gold Cup was a great success, match racing grew exponentially and created a new form of competitive sailing that had to have its rules managed and standardized so that rules were the same everywhere.

The name Venezuela comes from the lake, when Spanish Conquistadors sailing into this area found the indigenous peoples living in communities of huts supported by stilts along the shores of the Lake over 500 years ago and promptly named this new territory " Little Venice " ( Pequeña Venecia ) or Venezuela.

Many Irish joined the armada of sailing ships which sailed from Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Holyhead, Liverpool, and Glasgow, many bound for the new world, some to Australia.

In the heaviest gust the crew or skipper can sheet the boom in somewhat and force the boom across the boat by hand, and hold the boom in position ( see " preventer "), as the direction of the wind crosses the centerline of the boat ; then the mainsail can be eased out to its new sailing course.

In 1692, a new flag was introduced for merchant vessels sailing to Brazil.

The diversion of the Afon Glaslyn caused it to scour out a new natural harbour which had a deep enough draught for small ocean-going sailing ships, and the first public wharves were built in 1825.

In 1795 the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty asked him to design six new sailing ships with " partitions contributing to strength, and securing the ship against foundering, as practiced by the Chinese of the present day ".

Military roads linking coastal defences around the island with St. Helier harbour allowed farmers to exploit Jersey's temperate micro-climate and use new fast sailing ships and then steamships to get their produce to the markets of London and Paris before the competition.

She was accused of making a potion to make the storms rough as King James VI of Scotland was sailing home from Denmark with his new wife, Anne of Denmark.

They met at the Army Chaplains School at Harvard University, where they prepared for assignments in the European theater, sailing on board USAT Dorchester to report to their new assignments.

The new clubhouse makes DSC one the best sailing centres in Northern Ireland.

The navy's priority re-equipment plans for the 1990s included the receipt of new Inhaúma-class corvettes, the construction of Tupi-class submarines, the refurbishing of the Niterói-class frigates, the acquisition of nine new Super Lynx and up to six former United States Navy Sikorsky SH-3G / H Sea King helicopters, the construction of the conventional SNAC-1 submarine prototype, and the development of nuclear-propulsion technology.

The lower deck, known as the " gun deck ", now carried no armament, and functioned as a " berth deck " where the crew lived, and was in fact placed below the waterline of the new frigates.

Like the larger 74 which was developed at the same time, the new frigates sailed very well and were good fighting vessels due to a combination of long hulls and low upperworks compared to vessels of comparable size and firepower.

The Royal Navy captured a handful of the new French frigates during the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) and were impressed by them, particularly for their inshore handling capabilities.

The Marina Militare is now equipping itself with a bigger aircraft carrier ( the Cavour ), new destroyers ( Horizon class frigate Orizzonte class ) and Luigi durand de La Penne, submarines ( Todaro ) and multipurpose frigates.

In the late 1950s, it entered an era of new construction with the building of a new class of guided missile frigates.

Besides outnumbering the Portuguese presence at Goa, the Indian frigates were new ships, presenting greater displacement, equipped with modern armament and greater speed.

A Military Programation Law ( Lei de Programação Militar ) was launched in 2002 to start the complete modernization of the Armed Forces ; considerable reequipment of the military started in 2003, with Defense Minister Paulo Portas, who managed to acquire new helicopters ( Army and Air Force ), submarines, IFV ( Army and Navy ), frigates and naval patrol boats.

Some of these projects are the construction of five new Fridtjof Nansen class Aegis frigates, six new Skjold class patrol boats and numerous upgradings of existing models and vessels.

Commodore Isaac Chauncey, commander of the American ships based at Sackett's Harbor, New York, was waiting for new frigates and heavily-armed brigs to be completed before he could challenge the British squadron.

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.

In 1853, the committee recommended passage of a bill providing for the addition of six new screw frigates to the fleet ; when delivered, some considered them to be the best frigates in the world.

By December 13, 1775, Congress had authorized the construction of 13 new frigates, rather than refitting merchantmen to increase the fleet.

Recent plans included the modernization of Standard class frigates with new electronics and radar systems, the modernization of Glaukos and Poseidon class submarines with new sonars, electronics and air-independent propulsion engines ( programs Neptune 1 / 2 ).

The US Navy was unable to produce enough frigates to counter this threat, given other priorities such as new cruisers and aircraft carriers, so Burke instead looked for ways to modify the existing destroyer fleet which were rapidly becoming outdated anyway.

They were expecting new destroyers, frigates and submarines being built in West Germany and their shipment of French Super Etendards and Exocets were not yet complete.

In an attempt to overcome the fleet's overall air defence deficiency following the loss of Sheffield, a new tactic was devised, which saw the two Type 22 frigates each teamed with one of the remaining pair of Type 42 destroyers ( unofficially termed Type 64, the sum of both classes numbers ); these were deployed together some distance from the main fleet, covering likely attack routes, in an attempt to draw attacking aircraft into a " missile trap ".

The SDSR further planned to replace the remaining 13 Type 23 frigates with the new Type 26 Global Combat Ship.