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.

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.

Steel warships as well as wooden ones need ship's carpenters, especially for making emergency repairs in the case of battle or storm damage.

The commander of the Kearsarge had, while in port at the Azores the year before, turned his warship into a makeshift partial ironclad ; the ship's port and starboard midsection were stepped-up-and-down to the waterline with overlapping rows of heavy chain armor, hidden behind black wooden deal-board covers.

The ship's wooden paddles, powered by two 250-horsepower steam engines, were reinforced with iron coverings.

The guns that determined a ship's rating were the carriage-mounted cannon, long-barreled, muzzle-loading guns that moved on ' trucks ' — wooden wheels.

Classical wooden ship's wheel of the type used on large sailing vessels

Shiver is also reminiscent of the splintering of a ship's timbers in battle-splinter wounds were a common form of battle injury on wooden ships (' shiver ' means splinter in some English dialects ).

The name is derived from fish, a wooden bar with a curved profile used to strengthen a ship's mast .< ref > The top and bottom edges are tapered inwards so the device wedges itself between the top and bottom of the rail when it is bolted into place.

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.

" Still on board when the battleship takes off, Hibiki is caught in a battle with female pirates that causes all of the ship's crew to evacuate, except for Hibiki, Duelo McFile, and Bart Garsus.

In this alternate, futuristic universe, men and women ( at least on Taraak and Mejere ) consider each other to be completely separate species ( Hibiki gains the nickname " Mr. Alien " from Dita Liebely, the female protagonist ), and the three men put up with much abuse at the hands of their female captors, but gradually make their presence accepted: Hibiki as a mecha fighter and technician, Duelo as a skilled doctor and engineer, and Bart as the ship's helmsman and navigator.

He is also rather unsuccessful with women, managing to have a sexual relationship with only one woman, Yvonne McGruder, the ship's female boxing champion.

An avatar is a humanoid representation of an intelligence, and Andromeda is shown to have the above mentioned holographic and android avatars that represent the personality and physical representation of the ship's AI, in this case in the form of a human female.

Jack also observes a certain ribaldry amongst his crew and remains puzzled until he and Captain Pullings stumble across a young female convict, Clarissa Harvill, during a ship's inspection.

Despite the seemingly sex-specific name of this function, in reality the sideboy function may be performed by either male or female members of the ship's complement.

In the last verse we find that a female character, Maria, the ship's cook, has entered the scene and that Jonas has a history with her from back at Star Corps Academy.

* Catalina ( Jewel Staite ) is a rainbow-haired female ship's engineer from Titan, a moon of Saturn.

It has been suggested that the character identified as " Care " below is really the ship's figurehead ( as shown in the first illustration ), and that " Hope " is actually the Boots.

The ship's figurehead, which washed up on the beach several days later, was erected as a modest monument to the victims and rescuers along the oceanfront for more than 50 years, and later became the inspiration for the current matching Norwegian Lady Monuments in Virginia Beach and Moss, Norway, sculpted by Ørnulf Bast.

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.

The ship's figurehead was in the shape of a dragon.

Prominent from the platforms and dominating the main entrance elevation, almost like a ship's figurehead, is a statue by Eric Aumonier of a kneeling archer captured as if having just released an arrow along the railway line towards central London.

) The original version of the statue is thought to have been a modified ship's figurehead.

Following a shipwreck in 1851, when the ship's figurehead washed up in the Devil's Hole, a statue of a devil adapted from the figurehead was set up above the Hole.

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.

Within minutes all three of his ship's masts had fallen, but the battle around Spartiate continued until 21: 00, when the badly wounded Emeriau ordered his colours struck.

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.

Whatever its origin, the fire spread rapidly though the ship's rigging, unchecked by the fire pumps aboard which had been smashed by British shot.

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 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.

She was the only child of Annie Tapley ( née Ziegler ) and Clinton Jones, a factory foreman who had been a ship's captain.

However, GRU intelligence officer Viktor Loginov, masquerading as a Ukrainian ship's cook named Sudets, had become suspicious and therefore decided to hide himself in order to remain aboard the submarine.

Regardless of these issues of the originality of the ship's structure, for Athenians the preserved ship kept fresh their understanding that Theseus had been an actual, historic figure — which none then doubted — and gave them a tangible connection to their divine providence.

These officers often had no knowledge of life on board a ship — let alone how to navigate such a vessel — and relied on the expertise of the ship's master and other seamen who tended to the technical aspects of running the ship.

Just as the ship's complement prepare to go into battle the next morning to stop the Japanese attack, the ship returns to 1980 – their minor involvement having had no net effect on history.

The captain of every ship sailing through the strait had to state the value of ship's cargo.

The king had the right to buy the cargo for the price the ship's captain stated.

Junner's mother, Elizabeth Junner, had named as Sarah's father a " John Junner -- shipwright journeyman ", though she had been living as an unmarried servant in the household of a John Lawrence, ship's carpenter, just four months earlier.

When, through Ellie's machinations, the ship's officers discover that Max had learned astrogation from his uncle, Max is promoted to the command deck.

She hates the callous and indifferent Lunar Authority for personal reasons: when she was transported to Luna as a young girl along with her convict mother, a radiation storm contaminated her ova, causing her to later give birth to a deformed child-a misfortune that could have been averted had the Lunar Authority acted in a timely manner to move their ship's passengers from the surface of Luna.

Years after the deaths of Scott, Wilson and Shackleton, Albert Armitage, the expedition's second-in-command, claimed that there had been a falling-out on the southern journey, and that Scott had told the ship's doctor that " if he does not go back sick he will go back in disgrace.