Finally, Odysseus threw his shield out and landed on that, and Protesilaus jumped next from his own ship.

The story line involved a race between two ship crews trying to reach a meteorite which had landed in the Arctic.

* 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.

According to Thucydides, who wrote within living memory of the events, the ship eventually landed safely at Ephesus, where Themistocles disembarked.

His ship was lost during that action ; with other survivors he landed on Guadalcanal and served ashore with a naval unit attached to the 1st Marine Division.

Richard the Lionheart landed in Limassol on 1 June 1191 in search of his sister and his bride Berengaria, whose ship had become separated from the fleet in a storm.

A Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan.

In November 1784 the 600-ton ship Blenheim landed a group that consisted primarily of English citizens and disbanded soldiers.

Disaster struck this expedition when its ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed before the shore parties could be landed.

On 17 February 1627, Captain Henry Powell of the ship " Olive Blossom " ( who became first English Governor of the Isle of Barbados ) landed to settle the island.

The convicts and other colonists were landed, the cattle that had survived three months aboard ship were turned loose, earth was broken for a kitchen garden, and seeds of cabbage, turnip, and lettuce were planted.

However, Raleigh still hoped to make money from the trip, and Mace's ship landed in the Outer Banks to gather aromatic woods or plants such as sassafras that would generate a decent profit back in England.

When the ship landed by his Thracian home, Phineus described his torment to the crew and told them that his brothers-in-law, the wing-footed Boreads, both Argonauts, were fated to deliver him from the Harpies.

Cycnus later learned the truth, killed Eumolpus, buried Philonome alive and tried to reconcile with his children, but Tenes rejected his overture: when Cycnus ' ship landed at Tenedos, Tenes took an axe and cut the moorings.

Others relate that on the way back from Troy Podalirius ' ship was blown off course so he landed in Syrnus, Caria, where he settled.

On the voyage there, his ship was driven by a storm onto the coast of Sicily and he landed at Messina.

After working his passage on a French ship and being refused entry to Syria, Turkey and Italy, he landed in Marseille where he made his way to Geneva in Switzerland – then something of an anarchist centre.

He sailed for England on 7 February 1799 with a letter of introduction to the Navy Minister, and on 7 March his ship, the Halifax landed at Falmouth.

Smallville depicts her as Clark's ( Tom Welling ) cousin, whose spacecraft became trapped in stasis until the events of the sixth season finale, when the destruction of the dam that the ship had landed nearby disrupted the stasis systems and allowed Kara to wake up.

Drake's Bay is backed by similar-looking cliffs, leading many to believe this is where the ship landed.

The Connecticut River Museum, situated at the site where Coot landed, now hosts an exhibit portraying the raid, featuring a large diorama by Russell Joseph Buckingham, a musket ball believed to have been fired then and a plank from the ship Osage, burned by the British.

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.

Sailors did, however, consider it unlucky to touch a storm-petrel, especially one that has landed on the ship.

In May 1544, a ship landed there filled with Portuguese refugees.

In 1630, aboard the ship Arbella, Puritan preacher John Winthrop delivered his famous sermon Shining city upon a hill.

* English ship Vanguard ( 1586 ) was a 31-gun galleon launched in 1586, rebuilt twice and was broken up in 1630, with some parts being reused in the next HMS Vanguard.

On 8 April 1630, Winthrop departed from the Isle of Wight, England on the ship Arbella and arrrived in Salem in June where he was met by John Endecott, the first governor of the colony.

Levett's attempt to establish a colony in Maine ultimately failed, and he died aboard ship returning to England after meeting with Governor John Winthrop in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

In early 1630, he procured a ship to fetch them, but it foundered off the Irish coast, and his wife was drowned.

May 30, 1630, Captain Squib of the ship Mary and John entered Boston Harbor and on June 17, 1630 landed a boat with eight men on the Dorchester shore, at what was then a narrow peninsula known as Mattapan or Mattaponnock, and today is known as Columbia Point ( more popularly since 1984 as Harbor Point ).

In 1630 William Gaylord arrived in Nantucket harbor on the ship " Mary and John ", which had sailed from Plymouth, England.

Francisco Pelsaert ( first name also spelled as " François ", surname also spelled as " Pelsart ") ( c. 1595 – September 1630 ) was a Dutch merchant who worked for the Dutch East Indies Company, who became most famous as the commander of the ship Batavia, which ran aground in the Houtman Abrolhos off the coast of Western Australia in June 1629.

The Conyers family of Sockburn continued in America when Edward Conyers, son of Christopher Conyers of Wakerly and Mary Halford, left England on Governor Winthrop ’ s fleet ship Lyons and landed at Salem Harbor on June 12, 1630.

Ludlow sailed to America in May 1630 aboard the ship Mary & John with his wife Mary Cogan, a sister-in-law of Governor John Endicott of Massachusetts.

* 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story ).

* 2005: The Canadian red tide was discovered to have come further south than it has in years prior by the ship ( R / V ) Oceanus, closing shellfish beds in Maine and Massachusetts and alerting authorities as far south as Montauk ( Long Island, NY ) to check their beds.

First to the scene were 116 cadets under the direction of Lieutenant Commander H. J. Copeland from USS Nantucket, a training ship of the Massachusetts Nautical School ( which is now the Massachusetts Maritime Academy ), that was docked nearby at the playground pier.

Currently a training ship at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, which renamed it after the 1874 Enterprise ( the Academy ’ s first training ship ) before renaming it after the Kennedy Family.

* March 29 – Great Migration: The ship Arbella and three other ships leave Southampton, England with 400 passengers headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America.

** The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

* September – John Spofford originator and forefather of the decedents of Spofford family arrives in Boston harbor by way of the ship " john of london " and is one of the first people to establish Rowely, Essex County, Massachusetts.

The ship, however, made one last American port call ; he was caught in New Orleans and sent back to Massachusetts to serve out his prison term.

* In 2005 the Canadian HAB was discovered to have come further south than it has in years prior by a ship called The Oceanus, closing shellfish beds in Maine and Massachusetts and alerting authorities as far south as Montauk ( Long Island, NY ) to check their beds.

They left Lynn, Massachusetts in November 1897, passed through the Straits of Magellan, and arrived at San Francisco five months later, where they sold the ship.

Amongs these were the aircraft carrier ; the battleships, now preserved as a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Massachusetts, and ; and, the world's last all-gun heavy warship, which is still preserved at Fore River as the main exhibit of the United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum.

" One of Garrison's " Black List " columns reported that a shipper from Garrison's home town of Newburyport, Massachusetts — one Francis Todd — was involved in the slave trade, and that he had recently had slaves shipped from Baltimore to New Orleans on his ship Francis.

Blessing of the Bay, the second ocean-going merchant ship built in the English colonies, carried maple sugar from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to New Amsterdam as early as 1631.

* was a battleship of the second South Dakota class, commissioned in 1942 and which saw action in World War II, now a museum ship in Fall River, Massachusetts.

From 1694 to 1705, he operated a ship building business at Taunton, Massachusetts.

* November 20-An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story ).

On June 24, 1833, the staff and dignitaries including Vice President Martin Van Buren, Secretary of War Lewis Cass, Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury, and many Massachusetts officials, witnessed " one of the great events of American naval history ": the United States frigate Constitution was inaugurating the first naval drydock in New England designed by prominent civil engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr .. On March 14, 1975, the historic ship floated out of the dock — the last commissioned vessel to use the facility.

The tenure of the Independence in the Massachusetts Navy was short, however ; the ship was captured in battle off the coast of Nova Scotia by HMS Hope and HMS Nancy.

To return home sooner, he was reassigned by the ship's owners to a different ship, the Alert, and on September 22, 1836, Dana arrived back in Massachusetts.

Still aboard the ship Arbella, Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be a " city upon a hill ", watched by the world --- which became the ideal the New England colonists placed upon their hilly capital city, Boston.