He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Caribbean island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716.

The islands are mainly known for having been the home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk for four years, which may have inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe.

This may be based on a claimed sighting by a British sailor in 1939.

His birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman and Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall, but Louise later claimed that she was seduced by " a sailor " whose name may have been Jack Worthington.

The loose transliteration may be confusing to Russian speakers, as the Russian word matroska () actually refers to a sailor suit.

This is the classic sailor neckwear and may have been adopted from them.

Author and First Fleet officer Watkin Tench, whose accounts are primary sources about the early years of the colony, never suggested that the epidemic may have been caused by Aborigines disturbing the grave of a French sailor who died shortly after arrival in Australia ( supposedly of smallpox ) and had been buried at Botany Bay.

According to these accounts, Godric, who began from humble beginnings as the son of Ailward and Edwenna, " both of slender rank and wealth, but abundant in righteousness and virtue ", was a pedlar, then a sailor and entrepreneur, and may have been the captain and owner of the ship that conveyed Baldwin I of Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1102.

The mass of a ballasted foil means that a system of pulleys may be required to allow the sailor to lift the foil, and a method of latching the board in the upward position is needed.

All of these initiatives, however, may be waived in the event the sailor holds critical training qualifications, Navy Enlisted Classification ( NEC ) job codes, or clearances.

However, this may be waived in the event the sailor holds a critical rate, Navy Enlisted Classification or security clearance.

Shipboard postal facilities are ubiquitous on ships of any size, although the " post office " may consist only of an alcove and a sailor working it part-time.

* Crispus Attucks ( 1723 – 1770 ), sailor who may have used the alias " Michael Johnson "

A survivor of the Ramel alleges that there was a German sailor on board who had helped to guide the Atlantis to the Ramel ; the German may have used torches and lights to signal to the German vessel during the night.

According to Procter & Gamble, the original model for the image of Mr. Clean was a United States Navy sailor from the city of Pensacola, Florida, although some people may think he is a genie based on his earring, folded arms, and tendency to appear magically at the appropriate time.

The sheet bend may be tied by various methods: the basic " rabbit through the hole " method of forming a half hitch in the bight of the larger rope, by a more expedient method shown in Ashley as № 1431 ( similar to the method used by an experienced sailor or mountaineer to tie a bowline ) or by a trick method, Ashley № 2562, involving upsetting a noose knot over a short end of the " larger " rope.

An enlisted sailor who has qualified as an EFMFWS may place the designator ( FMF ) after his / her rate and / or rating ; for example, HM3 John Doe, having qualified for his FMF pin, is identified as HM3 ( FMF ) John Doe.

the mast that may be essential to the cruising sailor for dinghy stowage and other uses.

This may be based on a claimed sighting of Vatnajökull by a British sailor in 1939, during the British occupation of the Faroe Islands in World War II when they were used to monitor German shipping and U-boat movements.

Named suspects who may be entirely fictional include " Dr Stanley ", cult leader Nicolai Vasiliev, Norwegian sailor " Fogelma ", and Russian needlewoman Olga Tchkersoff.

By lucky accident he may have been the first sailor to plane his boat.

And the soldiers beat the sailor, who may or may not have planned to harm him.

Bobby Darin also had a hit version of the song, where he made fun of Clementine's weight, joking at the end of the song that whalers might find her: " Hey you sailor, way out in your whaler, a-with your harpoon and your trusty line, If she shows now, yell ..., A-there she blows now !, It just may be chunky, Clementine.

In either case, he must have been an experienced leader and sailor by that time.

The Carthaginian sailor Himilco is said to have visited the island in the 5th century BC and the Greek explorer Pytheas in the 4th.

He also explains how brutal and unscrupulous these Romans must have been: " They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force "-After some silence, Marlow abruptly starts up again saying, in a hesitating voice, " I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit.

* Juan de Agramonte, a sailor from Spain, is thought possibly to have travelled to Newfoundland.

Walter Yeo, a British sailor, is often cited as the first known person to have benefited from plastic surgery.

Some of the characters also have prototypes in the ballads: Dick Deadeye is based on a character in " Woman's Gratitude " ( 1869 ); an early version of Ralph Rackstraw can be seen in " Joe Go-Lightly " ( 1867 ), with its sailor madly in love with the daughter of someone who far outranks him ; and Little Buttercup is taken almost wholesale from " The Bumboat Woman's Story " ( 1870 ).

As part of his role as the self-appointed " father " of the Navy, Raeder was obsessed with the sex lives of his men, giving a dishonourable discharge to any officer or sailor who was found to have engaged in premarital or extramarital sex.

But, there are also many schools which have different type of uniforms such as vast, suit-like jackets, sailor style uniforms, pinafores, culottes, school-issued t-shirts, tartan skirts, military-style uniforms, and so on.

Because school uniforms are a popular fetish item, second-hand sailor outfits and other items of school wear are brokered through underground establishments known as burusera, although changes to Japanese law have made such practices difficult.

Because school uniforms are a popular fetish item, second-hand sailor outfits and other items of school wear are brokered through underground establishments known as burusera, although changes to Japanese law have made such practices difficult.

They have been " Soldier, sailor, compositor, photographer ... engine-drivers, petty contractors ," and more, and have decided India is not big enough for them.

" I have seen death in many shapes, I've been a soldier and a sailor in my time ; in the east, in the Crusade, and for ten years after Jerusalem fell.

Author James Fenimore Cooper's earlier 1849 novel The Sea Lions, is a tale that begins with the death of a sailor who has left behind " two old, dirty and ragged charts " which lead to a seal-hunting paradise in the Antarctic as well as a location in the West Indies where pirates have buried treasure, a plot similar to Stevenson's tale.

The albatrosses have been described as " the most legendary of birds ", and have a variety of myths and legends associated with them, and today it is widely considered unlucky to harm them, although the notion that sailors believed that is a myth which derives from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ", in which a sailor is punished for killing an albatross by having to wear its corpse around his neck.

His earliest governesses were the wives of a tailor and a vintner from the Dutch settlement ; a sailor called Norman taught him the rudiments of navigation ; and, when he grew older, he was placed under the care of a Hungarian refugee, Janos Zeikin, who seems to have been a conscientious teacher.

Some say the sailor had fond memories of trips to North Africa, some have said he had a friend that had been captured by the Barbary Pirates and was imprisoned in old Mogador and others have speculated that popular literature of that era was the Arabian Nights and the mysterious markets on the North African coast.

) To have sent a fleet in midwinter to the Baltic every sailor would tell you was an impossibility, but if it could have gone it would have been attended by no effectual result.

According to writer Nigel Clarke, the original Lassie who inspired so many films and television episodes was a rough-haired crossbreed who saved the life of a sailor during World War I.

Eden is a sailor from a working-class background who feels uncomfortable but inspired when he first meets the bourgeois Morse family.