* City Market ( built in 1876, oldest city market in North America, with an original ship's hull roof design )

affected by the vessel ’ s basic characteristics such as size, subdivision, armouring and other hardening feartures, and also the design of the ship's systems, in particular the location of equipments, degrees of redundancy and separation and the presence within a system of single point failures.

Depending on the ship's design and function, bilge water may contain water, oil, urine, detergents, solvents, chemicals, pitch, particles, and other materials.

This design means that the ship's flotation runs mostly under the waves, like a submarine ( the smooth ride of a sub was the inspiration for the design ).

The USS Lancaster Eagle | figurehead of USS Lancaster ( 1858 ) | USS Lancaster carved by John Haley Bellamy and on display at The Mariners ' MuseumIt is still common practise for warships to carry ships ' badges, large plaques mounted on the superstructure with a unique design relating to the ship's name or role.

However, as with almost all vessels of any culture before the late 19th century, the accuracy of magnetic compasses aboard ship, whether from a failure to understand deviation ( the magnetism of the ship's iron fastenings ) or poor design of the compass card ( the standard drypoint compasses were extremely unstable ), meant that they did little to contribute to the accuracy of navigation by dead reckoning.

He explains the ship's design as follows:

The design of the new sign is a ship's mast with the attraction name written in its black sails, and a skeleton of a pirate up in its crow's nest.

However, Hardin orders several secret technological devices to be incorporated into the ship's design prior to its completion.

The modern clipper ship's hull uses a design very much like the canoes used by the Quileutes.

Special Arctic design included the rounded lines of the ship's body below the water line, an additional belt of ice-floe resistant flush skin-planking ( made of oak or larch ) along the variable water-line, a false keel for on-ice portage ( and for damage prevention from running aground in shallow waters ), and the shaft-like upper part and wide lower part ( below water-line ) of the rudder.

He improved the design of the bow and the stern, and, from about 1830, he introduced ships with iron diagonal bracing ; by thus stiffening the hull a ship's sea worthiness was greatly improved in storms and high seas.

The ship's design is said to resemble the shape of a street lamp.

The ship's basic design " formed the basis for one of sci-fi's most iconic images ".

A ship model basin is a physical basin or tank used to carry out hydrodynamic tests with ship models, for the purpose of designing a new ( full sized ) ship, or refining the design of a ship to improve the ship's performance at sea.

In the storyline, Lieutenant B ' Elanna Torres contributes her engineering skills and Seven of Nine her expertise in Borg weaponry to the ship's design.

The ship's design has been demonstrated to be very seaworthy.

" Captain Driver is buried in Nashville's historic City Cemetery, under an unusual marker of his own design — a ship's anchor leaning against a vine-covered tree.

By flying a French flag and the recognition signal and taking advantage of the appearance of his ship's French design, Hornblower fools the garrison into believing that the Sutherland is friendly.

Vickery became responsible for overseeing the Commission's shipbuilding functions including the design and construction of the ships, developing shipyards to build them and companies to manufacture the complicated and highly specialized ship's machinery.

When Rick Sternbach took over Probert's duties, he believed the sketch was a rejected concept for the Enterprise-D, but the ship's design stayed with him.

The Quartermaster emblem is a medal consisting of the Sea Scout emblem on a ship's wheel that is suspended from a solid dark blue ribbon that is in turn suspended from a bar bearing the design of a double carrick bend knot.

The ship's design stems from initial concepts for the Millennium Falcon.

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.