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 ).

Being a computer, HAL has no distinct physical form, though is visually represented as a red television-camera eye located on equipment panels throughout the ship.

Following a ship wreck in 1535, Portuguese traders were allowed to anchor ships in Macau's harbours, and the right to carry out trading activities, though not the right to stay onshore.

Both these positions are superior to any other on the ship, even though the masthead is higher.

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.

It is his art direction, ship designs and unique style that accredit him in fans ' eyes as the true creator of Space Battleship Yamato, even though Nishizaki retains legal rights to the work.

The flagship of Starfleet is often considered to be the starship USS Enterprise, even though that ship has generally not been commanded by a flag officer.

Eight separate boxed games were released as tie-in products: Striker, a game of tabletop miniature warfare, added very complex rules for vehicle design & combat, Mayday concentrated on small ship vs ship space combat, Snapshot and Azhanti High Lightning featured small-unit battles on board spacecraft, while Fifth Frontier War, Invasion Earth and Dark Nebula were wargames based on selected interstellar conflicts from the Classic Traveller ( though in the case of the later this was not the case on its publication, but they were used as the basis of parts of the ' imperial ' background ) future history.

This situation is similar to Rendezvous with Rama, though the ship exterior and its interactions with humans is very different.

* December 2 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile, causin numerous fatalities ( though the exact death toll is unresolved, as the bombing raid itself causes hundreds of deaths too ).

Players can not damage Cap ' n Hector directly, though in the original game it was possible for splash damage to disable or destroy her ship.

The opening of the Panama Canal and reduction in ship traffic dealt a staggering blow to Valparaíso, though the city has staged an impressive renaissance in recent years.

One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself " tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama " of the elements during a storm at sea.

Pindar employed the quest for the Golden Fleece in his Fourth Pythian Ode ( written in 462 BC ), though the fleece itself is not in the foreground ; when Aeetes challenges Jason to yoke the fire-breathing bulls, the fleece is the prize: " Let the King do this, the captain of the ship!

Alternatively, she became pregnant with Trambelus while still on board the ship and then escaped ; it is also possible, though, that the mother of Trambelus was not Hesione, but a certain Theaneira.

By this time, even though Convex was the first vendor to ship a GaAs based product, they were losing money.

Some sailors who have sailed on them say it is a poor-handling compromise between a barque and a ship, though having more speed than a barque or schooner.

Dubbed " Okudagrams ", the system was also used for displays on the Klingon ship, though the buttons were larger.

However, the introduction of the ironclad frigate in about 1859 led swiftly to the decline of the steam-assisted ships of the line, though the ironclad warship became the ancestor of the 20th-century battleship, whose very designation is itself a contraction of the phrase " line-of-battle ship.

The abbreviated canal was used to ship soft wood for construction and even though the canal was drained and backfilled in 1970 Whitten's timber merchants still stands on the site of the canal head.

The Queen, though, insisted that her son be allowed to remain with his ship, meaning Prince Andrew remained on board Invincible to serve as a Sea King helicopter co-pilot, flying on missions that included anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare, Exocet missile decoy, casualty evacuation, transport, and search and air rescue.

The oppressive rail freight rates were much higher in Spokane than the rates in coastal cities such as Seattle and Portland, so much so that merchants in Minneapolis could ship goods first to Seattle and then back to Spokane for less than to ship directly to Spokane, even though the rail line ran through Spokane on the way to the coast.

The ironclad, first used in the American Civil War, resistant to cannons, soon made the wooden ship obsolete.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Isolated and battered, Blanquet's ship was soon dismasted and the admiral, suffering a severe head wound, was forced to surrender by the combined firepower of Swiftsure and Defence.

" As soon as they set sail, such a storm arose that ship was driven ashore.

A third of his crew soon perished on the Comoros due to an outbreak of cholera, the brand-new ship developed many leaks, and he failed to find the pirates he expected to encounter off Madagascar.

The success of these Dunkirker vessels influenced the ship design of the Dutch and other navies contending with them but because most regular navies required ships of greater endurance than the Dunkirker frigates could provide, the term was soon applied less exclusively to any relatively fast and elegant sail-only war ship.

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.

They soon break out into a fight where the Spider-Man from the ship is killed by a Tyrannosaurus and regresses to a Skrull.

The Lateran obelisk was shipped to Rome soon afterwards, but the other one then spent a generation lying at the docks due to the difficulty involved in attempting to ship it to Constantinople.

She jumped aboard the ship soon after the expedition set out, invoking the protection of Artemis, whose virgin priestess she was.

Goro whispers that Pinkerton ’ s ship is expected to arrive soon, and Sharpless explains that Pinkerton is too embarrassed to meet Butterfly and has asked Sharpless to handle it.

Unlike oily fish, white fish contain oils only in their liver, rather than in their gut, and can therefore be gutted as soon as they are caught, on board the ship.

Zakath's personal guard soon arrives on the Imperial ship.

As a consequence, the ship they constructed ( named the Archangel Gabriel ) was ready to be launched as soon as 9 June 1728 from its construction point upriver at Ushka.

He is rescued by the Idirans and given his mission to find the Culture Mind, but the Idiran ship on which he is travelling is soon captured by a Culture ship.

Horza soon resolves to take over the ship by replacing the Captain, Kraiklyn, who leads them on some disastrous pirate raids which kill several of the crew.

The crew lands on an abandoned Megaliner cruising the Vavatch ocean, hoping to salvage its powerful laser weapons before the Orbital is destroyed, but one of the crew is killed soon after landing because he missed the briefing warning them that their antigravity devices would not work there, and more die when the ship crashes into a massive ice wall, which Kraiklyn had mistaken for a cloud bank, although Horza later discovers that Kraiklyn and several others managed to escape.

The plan is almost foiled when Bishop gets suspicious and has one of the men flogged in an attempt to make him talk, and Blood is spared a similar fate when a Spanish squadron attacks the town, During the raid, Blood and his fellow slaves escape, seize control of the Spanish raiders ' ship and sail away to begin a life of piracy, in which Blood soon achieves incredible success and fame.

Whereas Sandoval had visited the slaves where they worked, Claver preferred to head for the wharf as soon as a slave ship entered the port.

By invisibly observing the crew of the Romulan vessel, Ro and La Forge soon discover that the accident, as well as the damage to the Romulan ship, is the result of a Romulan weapons test, and that the Romulans are now performing a subtle act of sabotage that will destroy the Enterprise-D the moment that ship accelerates to warp drive.

One of the first orders that Valdivia gave was to have a ship constructed at the mouth of the Aconcagua River to send to Peru for further supplies and to serve as a courier service, but soon was obliged to return in haste to Santiago to subdue a mutiny.