Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.

* 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

The one ship that escaped managed to do so only because all of Alfred's heavy ships became mired when the tide went out.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

It is also said in myth that floating rocks known as the Symplegades or Clashing Rocks once crushed any ship that attempted passage of the Bosphorus until the hero Jason obtained passage, whereupon the rocks became fixed, and Greek access to the Black Sea was opened.

The final ship of the British line, Culloden under Troubridge, sailed too close to Aboukir Island in the growing darkness and became stuck fast on the shoal.

During World War II, a US submarine, the USS Puffer ( SS-268 ), came under several hours of depth charge attack by a Japanese surface vessel until the ship became convinced the submarine had somehow escaped.

" The strategy worked and the VIC-20 became the first computer to ship more than one million units.

Also during this time Almagro established a friendship with Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who during the time was in charge of Acla, with the intent of making a ship with the materials of the Espinosa expedition and later finish it in the " Great South Sea " as the Pacific Ocean first became known to the Spanish.

Then NTPF became the Afloat Prepositioning Force ( AFP ) and eventually Maritime Prepositioning ship Squadron Two ( MPSRON 2 ) consisting of 20 deep-water pre-positioned logistics ships anchored in the lagoon.

When war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten became commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla aboard his ship Kelly, which was famous for its many daring exploits.

There stood there also a brass bronze tube and from it flew much fire against one ship, and it burned up in a short time so that all of it became white ashes ..."

The 1906 ship was one of the Royal Navy's most famous vessels, battleships built after her were referred to as ' dreadnoughts ', and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts.

In the late 1680s, Edward Lloyd opened a coffee house that became a popular haunt of ship owners, merchants, and ships ' captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news.

This expedition, led by Adrien de Gerlache using the ship the Belgica, became the first expedition to winter in Antarctica.

Unfortunately, the ice became so thick that the ship was unable to break free, even though the ship was designed specifically for such a journey.

Torres became associated with a Maquis captain named Chakotay, and was serving as chief engineer on his ship, the Val Jean, when they were brought to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.

In the non-canonical Voyager relaunch novels, written by Christie Golden, the character Chakotay is promoted after the ship returns to Federation space, and became Captain of Voyager.

The NZ administration allowed the ship to berth in breach of quarantine ; within seven days of this ship's arrival influenza became epidemic in Upolu and then spread rapidly throughout the rest of the territory.

As a ship it was fast and agile, and became the dominant warship in the Mediterranean from the 7th to the 4th centuries BC, when they were largely superseded by the larger quadriremes and quinqueremes.

He became successful and obtained his own ship, named " The Golden Goose ".

In Normandy, which had been settled by Vikings, the Viking ship became an uncontroversial regional symbol.

They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer ; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England ; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

* August 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

However, the combination of elements recalls an infamous episode from Frobisher's 1576 voyage to Baffin Island and the tragic fate of an unnamed Inuit paddler who was lured aboard the explorer's ship, Gabriel, and kidnapped for transport back to England as proof of the expedition's success in reaching the New World.

Later, trying to find wood outside his village to make a drum for his brother, Kunta is captured by contentious tribe members and sold to slave traders of the infamous Atlantic slave trade and put on a slave ship commanded by Captain Davies for a three-month journey to Colonial America.

Freeman's Cove is most noted in history as a stopover for the ship the Intrepid, and also for the failed attempts by the infamous modern-day explorer and eccentric Cory K. Buott to settle the area.

Unable to navigate save for with a compass, the ship is thought to have become lost near Newcastle and hit the Devil's Horseblock, an infamous rock column that lay just beneath the water's surface until after the Speedy's disappearance.

Roots finds in The African essential elements for its depiction of such things as a slave's thoughts of escape, the psychology of an old slave, the habits of mind of the hero, and the whole sense of life on an infamous slave ship.

Bowes was selected for the infamous Bodyline tour of 1932 / 33, just three days before the ship sailed.

Upon reaching the pirate-infested waters of Kush, their trade ship is attacked by the infamous reavers led by Bêlit, the Queen of the Black Coast.

Taylor also has the dubious distinction of having starred in Broadway's most infamous flop, Moose Murders, where she filled in, with less than a week's rehearsal, for veteran character actress Eve Arden who had jumped from the sinking ship.

Not long after moving in she turned up a richly carved desk, hewed from the timbers of the British ship H.M.S. Resolute and presented to President Hayes by Queen Victoria.

Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.

On Sept. 6, the Kretchmer rescued the crew of a trawler they found drifting on a life raft after they had abandoned a sinking ship.

If you volunteer, you will be told where you're going after the ship leaves.

Each man had a bubble to himself, privacy after the long period of enforced intimacy on board the ship.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

Agrippina was put aboard and after the bottom of the ship opened up, she fell into the water.

* 1943 – The, the first U. S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.

Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

Young, Duke and Mattingly were safely aboard the Ticonderoga recovery ship thirty-seven minutes after splashdown.

USS Allioth ( AK-109 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the star.

An illicit fire at a wrong position would be used to direct a ship against shoals or beaches, so that its cargo could be looted after the ship sank or ran aground.

One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

Ten minutes after the French opened fire Goliath, ignoring fire from the fort to starboard and from Guerrier to port, most of which was too high to trouble the ship, crossed the head of the French line.

Subsequent archaeological investigation found debris scattered over of seabed and evidence that the ship was wracked by two huge explosions one after the other.

Timoléon exploded shortly after midday, the eleventh and final French ship of the line destroyed or captured during the battle.

:" Ansgar accomplished the journey on which he had set out, and after spending nearly twenty days in a ship, he arrived at Birka --" ( Chapter XXVI )

Yet some still fought on ; and it was not until long after nightfall, when many a ship was blazing from the firebrands thrown upon them, that the work was done.

Many had perished from scurvy, while others ( including Captain Arnaud ) died during a failed attempt to sail after a passing ship to fetch help.

The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.

USS Crux ( AK-115 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation.

USS Cetus ( AK-77 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation.