Next day a ship arrived with an English pilot, his leadsman, an English youth, and the first Hindu the Judsons and Newells had ever seen.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

Once the soldiers from the barracks had to hold the ship from blowing away while Fogg revved the engine and got the tail up.

He had obtained and provisioned a veteran ship called the Discovery and had recruited a crew of twenty-one, the largest he had ever commanded.

In 1602, George Waymouth, in the same little Discovery that Hudson now commanded, had sailed 300 miles up the strait before his frightened men turned the ship back.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

Cook Bennett Mathues said Juet had predicted bloodshed on the ship.

Others added that Juet had wanted to turn the ship homeward.

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.

Doc had been under restriction to the ship since the Bustard left Subic.

A telephone line had been hooked up to connect the ship with the Base exchange.

And when he did, when he gave to his ship that protection necessary to preserve her honor, he knew he would lose forever the Navy to which he had dedicated his soul.

There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid ground, they simply had to get out.

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

A ship run by a human brain could not run rogue or insane with the power and resources Central had to build into their scout ships.

Alcaeus rarely used metaphor or simile and yet he had a fondness for the allegory of the storm-tossed ship of state.

The expedition had hoped a ship would come by to take them back east, but instead endured a torturous winter of rain and cold, then returned east the way they came.

Surface forces have been used to provide defense zones around naval and merchant ship formations, air to furnish area surveillance, and mines for protection of limited areas.

Had there been another `` brain '' ship at the Base at the moment, Helva would have been guided to make the first move.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.

In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.

Baralong sank U-27, which had been preparing to sink a nearby merchant ship.

Baralong had been about from the scene, and had received a distress call from the ship.

It is speculated that Hewitt may have been this mystery ship, and possibly involved in the Deering crew's disappearance.

His near light speed ship had been gone so long that on its return to Urth, there were no space port facilities any more, and it crashed.

A fast attack boat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | rebel LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2003 passes the hulk of an LTTE supply ship that had been sunk by government aircraft, Sri Lankan Civil War ( 1983-2009 )

It was reported on 13 December 2007, that " wreckage of a pirate ship abandoned by Captain Kidd in the 17th century has been found by divers in shallow waters off the Dominican Republic.

The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship ( which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium XI. 40, that he had seen the bull Serapis with his own eyes ).

While the island has probably been sighted by navigators since at least the 16th century, it takes its name from the British ship Europa, which visited it in December 1774.

Additionally Phoebe was a deacon of the church in Cenchreae, a port to the east of Corinth, and would have been able to convey the letter to Rome after passing through Corinth and taking a ship from Corinth ’ s west port.

Neither was heard of for over two months: at which point, in mid-July, Eleanor's ship finally reached Palermo in Sicily, where she discovered that she and her husband had both been given up for dead.

The following day, MacNeill reverted to his original position when he found out that the ship carrying the arms had been scuttled.

He soon added a sixth ship, Mary ( formerly Santa Maria ), a Portuguese merchant ship that had been captured off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands.

His American Fur Company purchased ten tons of Turkish opium, then shipped the contraband item to Canton on the packet ship Macedonian.

In 1998 China purchased the discarded Ukrainian ship Varyag and began retrofitting it for naval deployment.

) The ship Arms of Amsterdam arrives in Europe from New Netherland ( left September 23 ) with the news: " They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders.

* HMS Grafton, a fire ship purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696

To that end, Ben-Gurion used a firm hand during the Altalena Affair, a ship carrying arms purchased by the Irgun.

When the ship arrives in Wisborg, Orlok leaves unobserved, carrying one of his coffins, and moves into the house he purchased.

Apparently in the post Civil War era some time before or around 1882, from the publishing date, a ship was purchased by a Captain CHARLES L DINGLEY called the Ericssan with a weight of 1, 645 tons that was built by John Ericssan ( Although the above section on John Ericssan's Friendship with Cornelius H. DeLamater says that the ship known as the Ericssan was built by The DeLamater Iron Works ) to try out the hot air engine as a motive power in open ocean navigation.

It was purchased from the ship with funds contributed by early-day residents and brought to Vallecito to be erected in a large oak tree in 1854.

England, France, and Russia all purchased iron for warships from here due to the quality ; iron produced in Ironton and surrounding areas was used for the USS Monitor, the United States ' first ironclad ship.

They embarked on the ship Columbus on September 7, 1833 in Amsterdam, landed November 6, 1833 in New York, and purchased some land in Putnam County in December.

* was a 22-gun ship purchased in 1798 and sold in 1802.

Leif approached Bjarni, purchased his ship, gathered a crew of thirty-five men, and mounted an expedition towards the land Bjarni had described.

Most then traveled by ship to Indianola in December, 1844 and began the overland journey to the Fisher-Miller Land Grant purchased by Prince Solms.

Knowing that war was coming between Satsuma and the Tokugawa, Matsukata purchased a ship available in Nagasaki for use in the coming conflict.

The leaders of Satsuma felt the ship was best used as cargo vessel and so Matsukata resigned his position as captain of the ship he had purchased.

*, a packet ship purchased by the Continental Navy in 1778.

*, was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1798

*, a ordered from the United Kingdom just prior to World War II ; after the outbreak of that war, ship was purchased by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Inconstant ( H49 ); transferred to the Turkish Navy in 1946 with name restored to Mauvenet

Soon after this the officials purchased the mizzenmast from a foreign ship in the harbour and installed this as the fourth flagstaff.

*, a 24-gun armed ship purchased for the Continental Navy in 1775, and active until she was captured and burned in 1778

Ships of several types ( Caravel, Merchantman, Galleon, Privateer, and Frigate ) can be purchased or built ( a larger ship, the Man-O-War, can only be acquired during the War of Independence, and then only by recruiting a European power to join your revolution ).

Though modern in every respect and possibly the fastest ship in either fleet, Cristóbal Colón had one serious problem: She had been only recently purchased from Italy, and her main armament was not yet installed because of a contractual issue with the British firm of Armstrong.