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.

Sometimes a ship would be sighted and the Caravan pass so close that people could easily be seen on the distant deck.

Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

He would ship by rail five pounds per day per animal and the other fifteen pounds that were needed could be picked up off the country.

A ship at dry-dock could be called a foamy-necked floater in Anglo-Saxon or a swift ship in Greek.

The order to abandon ship was given, but cries of pain could be heard from the wounded below decks.

The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

Virginia coal, delivered by ship in Wales, will be about $2.80 a ton cheaper than Welsh coal delivered by rail from nearby mines.

stereo SWAO 1643 ), a saga of life on a cruise ship that is not apt to be included among Mr. Coward's more memorable works.

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

As she matured, more and more neural synapses would be adjusted to operate other mechanisms that went into the maintenance and running of a space ship.

For Helva was destined to be the `` brain '' half of a scout ship, partnered with a man or a woman, whichever she chose, as the mobile half.

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.

At the age of eleven, he joined his father on a ship as an apprentice ; his seagoing career would be marked by headstrong disobedience.

He has a ship that can be rolled up like a tablecloth when not used, he relies on two talking ravens to gather intelligence, and he consults the talking head of a dwarf for prophecy ( he carries it around long since detached from its body ) ( Section 7 ).

( The warships of the time were not designed to be ship killers but troop carriers.

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

Stradling and half a dozen of the crew survived the loss of their ship, but were made prisoners by the Spanish, as the War of the Spanish Succession was going on ( England and the Netherlands were in conflict with France and Spain over who was to be King of Spain ).

Despite a long history of warfare between Britain and Spain, Vancouver maintained excellent relations with his Spanish counterparts and even feted a Spanish sea captain aboard his ship during his 1792 trip to the Vancouver region.

Since then, China has maintained a three-ship flotilla of two warships and one supply ship in the Gulf of Aden by assigning ships to the Gulf of Aden on a three monthly basis.

*, ex-T-AK-290, a vehicle cargo ship in non-commissioned Military Sealift Command service as USNS Pollux ( T-AKR-290 ) from 1981 to 2007, since 2007 maintained by the United States Maritime Administration as part of the Ready Reserve Force

* 11th century-Sets of hourglasses were maintained by ship's pages to mark the progress of a ship during its voyage

The only known practical solution to this problem is surrounding the crewed parts of the ship with a thick enough shielding, such as a thick layer of maintained ice.

When the rest of the Brest fleet sailed to Belle-Isle and a mutiny broke out among many ships in the fleet, Villaret was one of the few officers who maintained order aboard his ship.

However, while Kirchner's reliance on price controls and similar administrative measures ( often aimed primarily at foreign-invested firms such as utilities ) clearly ran counter to the spirit of the Consensus, his administration in fact ran an extremely tight fiscal ship and maintained a highly competitive floating exchange rate ; Argentina's immediate bounce-back from crisis, further aided by abrogating its debts and a fortuitous boom in prices of primary commodities, leaves open issues of longer-term sustainability.

The star-crossed romance detailing its lovers, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, and the pairing's short but fulfilling time together on a sinking ship became the highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide total of $ 1. 8 billion, a record it maintained for twelve years.

War he fought on the side of the parliament, and was in command of a ship in the squadron maintained against the king in the Irish seas.

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He maintained control of the ship until help arrived, and after healing from his wounds was presented the Medal of Honor for his actions on the Liberty in 1968.

It maintained that international law entitled each State to determine the conditions under which a ship might fly its flag and that Community law had not removed that right.

Instead of receiving the traditional white hull of Irish Ferries, the ship maintained the blue hull of Color Line.

His ship, too, was the only one in the Greek navy where regular discipline was maintained.

In 1931, the trade school was annexed to Tarlac High School during the principal ship of Russel Taylor – a status it maintained until the onset and the end of the Second World War.

Joseph Severn maintained that the last draft was transcribed into the book in late September 1820 while they were aboard the ship Maria Crowther, travelling to Rome, from where the very sick Keats would never return.

During the war, Maryland's naval contribution, the relatively new sloop-of-war USS Constellation maintained her duty in slave ship interdiction for the Union Navy.

This hospital ship was paid for and maintained by some of the prominent citizens of Madras.

Stuart's experience in merchant shipping proved invaluable to his work and he soon had the crew of Q5 ( also known as HMS Farnborough ) disciplined and the ship well maintained and run.