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ship's and boilers
An estimated 1, 600 of Sultana's 2, 400 passengers were killed when three of the ship's four boilers exploded and Sultana sank near Memphis, Tennessee.
* Fireroom: The compartment in which the ship's boilers or furnaces are stoked and fired.
As the ship was sinking, Poon Lim took a life jacket and jumped overboard before the ship's boilers exploded.
The ship's paddlewheel was still churning at full speed, since crewmen could not reach the engine room to shut off the boilers.
A three masted sailing ship, the Charger, carrying a cargo of deal, was wrecked in Carralougha in 1890-the remains of the ship's boilers are still in evidence on the rocks near Fahamore at low tide.
An estimated 1, 700 passengers were killed when one of the ship's four boilers exploded and the Sultana sank not far from Memphis, Tennessee.

ship's and were
Where in the beginning locally found agates were used to make all types of objects for the European market, this became a globalized business around the turn of the 20th century: Idar-Oberstein imported large quantities of agate from Brazil, as ship's ballast.
However, Capra remembers the ship's arrival into New York Harbor, where he saw " a statue of a great lady, taller than a church steeple, holding a torch above the land we were about to enter ".
The SP and ID numbers were used parenthetically after each boat's or ship's name to identify it ; although this system pre-dated the modern hull classification system and its numbers were not referred to at the time as " hull codes " or " hull numbers ," it was used in a similar manner to today's system and can be considered its precursor.
The ship's scattered remains were noted and scavenged for many years, and rounded fragments of coal from the Amaranths hold were still being found on the south beach in the late 1930s.
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.
This attempt to relieve the pressure on Sydney turned to disaster when Sirius was wrecked and, although there was no loss of life, some stores were destroyed, and the ship's crew was marooned for ten months.
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.
It is conjectured that this kicking style was developed in this way to allow the fighter to use a hand to hold onto something for balance on a rocking ship's deck, and that the kicks and slaps were used on land to avoid the legal penalties for using a closed fist, which was considered a deadly weapon under the law.
The blast hit the ship's galley, where crew were lining up for lunch.
Although German U-boat crews were under War Order No. 154 not to rescue survivors, which was also the policy of the Allies, out of several thousand sinkings of merchant ships in World War II, there is only one documented case of a U-boat crew's deliberately attacking the ship's survivors: that of the U-852, whose crew attacked survivors of the Greek ship Peleus.
One of the ship's officers, a historian, is lost and presumed dead while transporting a rescued senator and his secretary to a small island for safety in advance of the coming battle ; according to history, the pair and his chief of staff were believed to have been killed by the Japanese.
It is not known for certain how many people were in each ship's crew but approximately 55 returned, and two ships were lost.
For example, in " Bread and Circuses " itself, James Kirk and crew investigated the fate of a ship's personnel on a planet while attempting to keep their origins secret even while the planet's rulers were aware.
Both the captain and the quartermaster were elected by the crew ; they, in turn, appointed the other ship's officers.
5 Portuguese personnel were killed and 13, including the ship's captain, were wounded in the action.
* 11th century-Sets of hourglasses were maintained by ship's pages to mark the progress of a ship during its voyage
Note, however, that the young gentlemen might also be rated as seamen rather than midshipmen on the ship's books ; though they were still considered the social superiors of the seamen, petty officers ( excluding other young gentlemen ) and most warrant officers and could be given authority over them.
During the age of sail, young boys formed part of the crew of British Royal Navy ships and were responsible for many important tasks including bringing powder and shot from the ship's magazine to the gun crews.
Many timbers were floated up the Maumee River to be used as ship's masts.
According to the treaty naval stores ( including ship's timbers, masts, spars, canvas, tar, rope, and pitch ) were not contraband and the Dutch therefore were free to continue their trade with France in these goods.

ship's and originally
* Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was originally attributed to " Lemuel Gulliver ", a ship's surgeon, and purported to be a factual account of four of his sea voyages.
Roger is the youngest, originally the ship's boy, but promoted to able seaman in later books.
Howe originally wanted to make two landings, one at Kip's Bay and another at Horn's Hook, further north on the eastern shore, but struck the latter option when ship's pilots warned of the dangerous waters of the Hell Gate, where the Harlem River and waters of Long Island Sound meet the East River.
He was originally the ship's first mate under Captain Jack Sparrow ( Depp ).
This made it easier for the Germans to find the range to both British ships, although it would have aided Holland's gunners if they had both fired upon Bismarck as originally planned, since they could then precisely time each other's salvos to avoid mistaking one ship's fire for the other.
It was originally thought that the pounding of the sea and the ship's engines would slowly randomize this field, but in testing this was found not to be a real problem.
Murdoch had originally been assigned as the ship's Chief Officer, though when the Titanics skipper Edward J. Smith brought Henry Wilde, his Chief from his previous command, Murdoch was temporarily reduced to First while First Officer Charles Lightoller was in turn reduced to Second.
"</ i ></ ref > The 76 ' long liberty pole was originally a ship's mast that had been recently captured < ref > Revolutionary War Soldier's Journal / Diary in the Longfellow House Collections, Moses Sleeper, Tuesday, August 1st, 1775 < i >" Raised the mast that Came out of the Schooner that was burnt at Chelsa "</ i >.</ ref > from the British armed schooner HMS Diana ( 1775 ), in the aftermath of the Battle of Chelsea Creek on May 27 and 28, 1775.
The trading ship's captain, originally skeptical of the human explorers ' claim that teaching him to make the various devices they use would take prohibitively long, gradually grows to accept this explanation, and sees the value of walking before he can run, as it were — a theme not at all surprising in a work by Hal Clement, a high school science teacher.
It is meant for leisure, originally on a big cruise ship's deck, which explains the origin of its name.
After Bart's " dog burning " fantasy, when he hears a ship's horn in the distance, there was originally going to be a faint cry of " more dogs ", but it was deemed that it took the joke too far.
He controlled the ship's other systems, and interacted with the crew via a ' mouthpiece ': an anthropomorphic avatar that originally resembled a court jester, but an ion storm damaged his personality tapes, turning him into a hippie.

ship's and built
A ship's lifeboat ( shipboard ) | lifeboat, built of steel, rusting away in the wetlands of Folly Island, South Carolina, United States.
The character of the Doctor began his service on the USS Voyager as the standard Emergency Medical Hologram built into almost every newer Starfleet ship's sickbay.
* City Market ( built in 1876, oldest city market in North America, with an original ship's hull roof design )
Most of the ship's on-screen appearances result from computer-generated imagery, although Tony Meinenger built a model used in the series.
The band achieved some fame in South America with 1992's Cargo Tour, where it played a series of shows in port cities, performing from a stage built into their tour ship's hold.
Members of the Albaola Society based near Bilbao in the Basque region of Spain, after studying the ship's structural details believe that the ship may have been built by Basque shipwrights, either in the Basque lands or in what is now south-western France.
Miller was spotted by Lieutenant Commander Doir C. Johnson, the ship's communications officer, who ordered the powerfully built sailor to accompany him to the bridge to assist with moving the ship's Captain Mervyn Bennion, who had a gaping wound in his abdomen where he had apparently been hit by shrapnel.
The ship's components were built at the Starfleet Division of the San Francisco Navy Yards and assembled in orbit.
Several episodes, as well as the ship's dedication plaque, establish that the Enterprise was built at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in orbit around Mars.
It was built on the model of a market hall, using naval construction techniques, which gives the impression of an upside-down ship's hull.
*, a ship's tender built by the White Star Line to service the Olympic class ocean liner
* The ship's bell from the USS California, the only dreadnaught-type battleship built on the Pacific Coast.
The Normandie Hotel, which opened during 1942, is built in the stylized shape of Normandie the ship, and it includes the ship's original sign.
Before the lighthouse was built in 1898, two ship's lamps exhibiting fixed green lights were erected on a flagstaff at Port Alfred, but these lights later proved to be inadequate.
With respect to the glass-sphered ship's design, Aronofsky argued, " There is no reason a spaceship would be built like a giant truck in space.
Two contiguous sets were built, between them containing the entirety of the ship's interior, which provided several advantages to the cast and crew during filming.
Model of a Chola ( 200 – 848 CE ) ship's hull, built by the ASI, based on a wreck 19 miles off the coast of Poombuhar, displayed in a Museum in Tirunelveli.

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