Philip Staffe, the ship's carpenter, was a good worker, but perversely independent.

The ship's compass was useless because of the nearness of the magnetic North Pole.

Foley's attack was followed by Hood in Zealous, who also crossed the French line and successfully anchored next to Guerrier in the space Foley had intended, engaging the lead ship's bow from close range.

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.

Aboard the Orion, a wooden block was smashed off one of the ship's masts, killing two men before wounding Captain Saumarez in the thigh.

On Peuple Souverain, Captain Pierre-Paul Raccord was badly wounded and ordered his ship's anchor cable cut in an effort to escape the bombardment.

Tonnage measured a ship's cargo capacity and was used to calculate tax and harbour dues.

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?

* 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.

Daniel MacKenzie of the American whaler Minerva Smith was unaware of Worth's sighting when he charted the island in 1828 and named it after his ship's owners on 1 December 1828.

The system was a simple one in which each ship received a number which was appended to its ship type, fully spelled out, and added parenthetically after the ship's name when deemed necessary to avoid confusion between ships.

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 eruption was also reported by a Bengali sea captain, who wrote of the event later, but who had not recorded it at the time in the ship's log.

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.

For example, it was featured in at least 10 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a weekly event of the senior staff of the fictional ship's crew.

By 1516, he was again at sea as a ship's captain in the Ottoman fleet.

As the periplus was a sort of ship's log, he probably did reach the Vistula.

The few fragments that have survived indicate that this material was a significant part of the periplus, possibly kept as the ship's log.

He was appointed ship's doctor on the frigate Adriana on the voyage from Rotterdam to Batavia ( present-day Jakarta ) in the Dutch East Indies ( present-day Indonesia ).

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.

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.

The October experiment allegedly took place while the ship was on its first shakedown cruise in the Bahamas, although proponents of the story claim that the ship's logs might have been falsified, or else still be classified.

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.

Two distinct still frames flash between the ground crew scene and the footage of the fire ; these appear to be from footage taken earlier of the ship's landing approach.

The 23 May sinking of the Kelly was still on Coward's mind, and he decided to use the ship's demise as the basis for his script.

Even today, it is still logged daily in the ship's deck log and reported to the Captain prior to eight bells on the forenoon watch ( shipboard noon ).

However the town of Monmouth still gives the freedom of the town to the ship's crew and talks of the " enduring link " between the town and the ship.

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.

One day, the very ship on which Sinbad set sail docks at the island, and he reclaims his goods ( still in the ship's hold ).

" By May 3, when Southack reached the location of the wreck, he found that a part of the ship was still visible breaching the water's surface and much of the ship's wreckage were scattered along more than four miles ( 6 km ) of shoreline.

* Although Hergé removed the ship's identity in the latest version, an American flag is still left at the " Peary " It is shown on page 35 panel 8.

The expected real-world kill-distance of an incoming anti-ship missile is about 500 m or less, still close enough to possibly cause damage on the ship's sensor or communication arrays.

It takes place on a downed spaceship ; the ship's crew has died of an unspecified disease, but functioning robots and strange creatures still inhabit the ship.

Many of the ship's robots are still functioning, however, and the players must either avoid or defeat them ; some may also be ignored.

After disocvering that his ship's navigation system is still operational, he turns to Azonia and says that they can still have their revenge but " it requires a sacrifice.

Apart from one or two small islands in the Firth of Forth, the Shiants are the only place in the UK where the black rat or ship's rat ( Rattus rattus ) can still be found.

Kot orders Dax to fire on the Rio Grande but as she refuses, she notices that Melora is not only still alive, but crawling toward a console controlling the ship's gravity.

Wesley, still affected by the mysterious pathogen, manages to reverse the ship's tractor beam field to cause the Enterprise to repel off the Tsiolkovsky, giving themselves the necessary additional seconds to clear the path of the fragment.

They also notice the ship's speed is still increasing, this time due to gravitational attraction: The Red Planet is drawing them in, and they are now only 50, 000 miles away.

Although Panama eventually confirmed that the vessel was still legally registered by that government as Lichfield I for the ship's true original owners and Lloyd's Registry of Shipping confirmed this information, further legal questions were generated about how the ship had passed from the hands of the US government into the physical possession of Ganter who had then sold the ship to Weiner.

Teg, Duncan, and the unawakened ghola of Thufir Hawat set about tightening the ship's security and hunting for the traitor ; they are unsuccessful, and the unborn ghola of Duke Leto Atreides is killed while still gestating in an axlotl tank.

When publication of the Vital Spark stories began in 1905 the ship's wheel was still in the open, but later a wheelhouse was added aft of the funnel giving the puffers their distinctive image.

believe that the ship's destruction was the work of the Royal Navy, the war between the USA and the British Empire at sea still not over at this point.

When the hijackers commandeer the ship, the passengers still on board are collected in the ship's restaurant.