For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

Abacá rope is very durable, flexible and resistant to salt water damage, allowing its use in hawsers, ship's lines and fishing nets.

The origin of this vessel, an abandoned and burning ship's boat laden with highly flammable material, is uncertain but it may have been launched from Guerrier as the battle began.

It has never been firmly established how the fire on Orient broke out, but one common account is that jars of oil and paint had been left on the poop deck, rather than properly stowed away after paintwork on the ship's hull had been completed shortly before the battle.

As Duke inspects the ship's computer, it is revealed that the plot to capture women was merely a ruse to distract him.

She is reputed to have commented after he was threatened with disciplinary action following the straining of his ship's engines, " What?

Printed in 1897, the novel is compiled entirely of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, doctor's notes, ship's logs, and the like, which Stoker adroitly employs to balance believability and dramatic tension.

The painting is structured with Brown's characteristic linear energy, and emphasis on apparently grotesque and banal details, such as the cabbages hanging from the ship's side.

Designed as a ship's prow, the tomb is located at the main entrance to the Cemetery of Rimini.

Galaxy Quest is a once-popular television space-drama series starring Jason Nesmith as the commander of a spaceship called the NSEA Protector, Alexander Dane as the ship's alien science officer, Fred Kwan as the chief engineer, Gwen DeMarco as the computer officer, and Tommy Webber as a precocious child pilot.

Later that year Galaxy Quest is revived, starring the original cast, along with Laliari, a female Thermian who chose to stay on Earth as Fred's lover, and with Guy playing the ship's chief of security, " Roc " Ingersol.

The shape is chosen to strike a balance between cost, hydrostatic considerations ( accommodation, load carrying and stability ), hydrodynamics ( speed, power requirements, and motion and behavior in a seaway ) and special considerations for the ship's role, such as the rounded bow of an icebreaker or the flat bottom of a landing craft.

If a ship's hull classification symbol begins with " W ", it is a ship of the United States Coast Guard.

If a ship's hull classification symbol begins with " T -", it is part of the Military Sealift Command, has a primarily civilian crew, and is a United States Naval Ship ( USNS ) in non-commissioned service — as opposed to a commissioned United States Ship ( USS ).

The letter is followed by a three-digit number ; the first digit indicates the NOAA " class " ( i. e., size ) of the vessel, which NOAA assigns based on the ship's gross tonnage and horsepower, while the next two digits combine with the first digit to create a unique three-digit identifying number for the ship.

The primary antagonist in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer ) is an artificial intelligence that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

This is so because the earth is constantly rotating, and therefore knowing the time while making an altitude measurement to a known heavenly body such as the sun, provided critical data for a ship's position east-west — a necessary capability for re-approaching land after voyages over medium and long distances.

However, the ship's roster from his family's arrival at Ellis Island lists his birthplace as Párdány, Kingdom of Hungary, in what is today the village of Međa in Serbia, not far from the Romanian border.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " A Matter of Honor ", several members of a Klingon ship's crew speak a language that is not translated for the benefit of the viewer ( even Commander Riker, enjoying the benefits of a universal translator, is unable to understand ) until one Klingon orders the others to " speak their ' humans ' language ".

The fate of the ship's crew of 15 is unknown.

Due to interference with the ship's computers, several crew members were trapped in it until the engineering crew managed to force open the doors.

However, this proved to be the ship's farthest point east, as at that position she became firmly trapped in the ice and began to move slowly westward ; by 10 September Karluk had retreated nearly back towards Point Barrow.

The ship's entire Mini-Con crew were rendered trapped in the suspended animation they had placed themselves in, sealed in small panels, many of which had scattered all across the face of the Earth as their craft entered the atmosphere.

In so doing, the Thunderbolts encountered the original Thunderbolts, who emerged from the void after severing the alien ship's presence from where they had been trapped on Counter-Earth.

The ship's Chief Mate, fifty-nine-year-old Robert M. (" Bob ") Cusick, was trapped under the deckhouse as the ship went down.

In addition to exploring the surface of each locale, there are underground caves scattered throughout the landscape in which the player, his Pikmin horde, and the ship's AI can enter.

To stop the deportation, the Haganah, the Jewish underground militia in Palestine, exploded a bomb in the ship's hold on November 25.

With Hudson looking on, his protege Greene picked a fight with the ship's surgeon, Edward Wilson.

These fragments typically feature lacunae or gaps that scholars fill with ' educated guesses ', including for example a " brilliant supplement " by Maurice Bowra in fr. 34, a hymn to the Dioscuri that includes a description of St Elmo's fire in the ship's rigging.

alt = A man in an ornate naval uniform with long grey hair stands on a ship's quarterdeck.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.

The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command.

John Clements Wickham named the region " Port Darwin " in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836.

The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle.

Later, when his crew refused to let Syn leave, Syn and Mipps slipped away in one of the ship's boats ; unknown to Syn, Mipps had arranged a convenient " accident " in the ship's powder hold with an exploding barrel of gunpowder, eliminating witnesses of Syn's piratic acts.

The ship's captain, Joseph Pierpont, published his experience in several American newspapers the following year giving an accurate position of Johnston and Sand Island along with part of the reef.

A maritime archaeologist with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program in St. Augustine, Florida, recording the ship's bell discovered on the 18th century " Storm Wreck.

Wrapped in scarlet cloth and drawn by three yoke of oxen that were caparisoned in white with the red cross of Saint George, the city's patron, it carried a crucifix so massive it took four men to step it in place, like a ship's mast.

Warships were designed to carry increasing numbers of cannon and naval tactics evolved to bring a ship's firepower to bear in a broadside, with ships-of-the-line arranged in a line of battle.

This is used in conjunction with the ship's warp drive's alteration of the ship's relativistic mass, to achieve mid-to-high sub-light speeds.

In January 1913, before Terra Nova left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem Ulysses: " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ", and was erected as a permanent memorial on Observation Hill, overlooking Hut Point.