Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company.

Dick Deadeye warns them to " forbear, nor carry out the scheme ", but the joyous ship's company ignores him.

He declared she was: on which i gave him my hand, and desired him to call on his officers and ship's company and tell them of it: which he did – and on the quarter deck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of vanquished Spaniards: which as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen, who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm.

Following, the sponsor is traditionally invited to give the first order to the ship's company: " Man our ship and bring her to life!

The rest of the ship's company are imprisoned in the forecastle, except for some stragglers in unsecured areas.

* Ship's complement, the number of persons in a ship's company, including both commissioned officers and crew

The company trans-shipped 1, 230 slaves from Jamaica to America in the first year, plus any which might have been added ( against standing instructions ) by the ship's captains on their own behalf.

The ship's company spends a relatively quiet Christmas in the north of Scotland during the Phoney War.

Safely back in harbour, Captain Kinross tells the assembled ship's company that during the battle nearly all the crew performed as he would expect ; however one man didn't.

He sailed home from Korean waters aboard battleship, but was not part of the ship's company.

The two had hoped to be wed aboard the White Star Liner RMS Olympic, but were informed that company regulations no longer allowed ship's captains to perform " at sea " ceremonies.

The brilliant and heroic record achieved by Destroyer Squadron Twenty-three is a distinctive tribute to the valiant fighting spirit of the individual units in this indomitable combat group of each skilled and courageous ship's company ...

The cruise book of a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier typically reaches over 600 pages in length, as it includes portraits of the more than 5, 000 sailors and Marines assigned to the ship's company and embarked carrier air wing.

The noise of the ship's guns, as the company sails off, wakes the poet to the real pleasures of a May morning.

Sinbad hatches a plan to blind the beast ( again, obvious parallels with the story of Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey ), with the two red-hot iron spits with which the monster has been kebabing and roasting the ship's company.

They were expected to have learned already, as able seamen and volunteers, to rig sails ; other duties included keeping watch, relaying messages between decks, supervising gun batteries, commanding small boats, and taking command of a sub-division of the ship's company under one of the lieutenants.

The novel is seen as an allegory about isolation and solidarity, the ship's company serving as a microcosm of a social group.

From October 1759 to April 1760 he had command of the Royal Exchange, a hired vessel employed in petty convoy service with a miscellaneous ship's company, consisting to a large extent of boys and foreigners, many of whom ( he reported ) could not speak English, and all impressed with the idea that as they had been engaged by the merchants from whom the ship was hired they were not subject to naval discipline.

She reached England on 2 July and two weeks later the ship's company was paid off.

In the following autumn Graves was appointed to the frigate HMS Magicienne, in which, on 2 January 1783, he fought a very severe action with the French Sibylle, which was encumbered with a second ship's company which she was carrying to the Chesapeake.

Benbow was ordered to forfeit three months ' pay, amounting to £ 12 15s., to the Adventures crew, and to " ask Captain Booth's pardon on board His Majesty's ship Bristol, declaring that he had no malicious intent in speaking those words ; all the commanders being present, and a boat's crew of each ship's company ".

:" It should be borne in mind that the commission referred to is the length of time the ship's company has been abroad, not the ship herself: when a ship recommissions abroad a fresh commission is started ; thus a commission of longer than 2¾ years is exceptional.

it was a real triumph of a single personality dominating a ship's company ".

Having made few friends and quite a number of enemies while at university, he found it hard to get a proper medical position in the Netherlands and so decided to sign up as a ship's surgeon for a Dutch East Indies shipping company.

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.