My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

She could not face coffee or tea without milk, and was always craving types of food that were not available aboard a sailing ship.

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 ''.

Four hundred and fifty pounds was disseminated while the ship was traveling a distance of 156 miles.

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

Just as it was being hauled inboard, a sea hit the ship.

When a sailing date of March, 1845 was finally established, Palfrey made sure that the Negroes would have comfortable quarters in New Orleans and aboard ship.

An ancient Rolls-Royce, as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the ship, was parked at the curb.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

This was a training ship and the training would continue, but there was an element of frightful absurdity here which Alexander recognized.

Many years later, the photon-counting apparatus in the nose of the ship would determine that the star was close enough to actuate deceleration.

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.

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.

And very, very few were lost when the final connection was made to the control panels of ship or industrial combine.

On the anniversary of her sixteenth year in her shell, Helva was unconditionally graduated and installed in her ship, the Aj.

Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.

When she awoke, she was the ship.

Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

Another popular method of exploiting this bug was to simply use thrust to keep the ship in motion with 1 or 2 asteroids in the play field, allowing the player to pick off as many 1, 000 point UFOs as possible.

On some early versions of the game, it was also possible to hide the ship in the score area indefinitely without being hit by asteroids.

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

Anakin's ship is hit by laser fire from the control ship and explodes into its component pieces, but Anakin uses the Force to reassemble it – into a biplane.

only one producer in a hundred is equipped to package and ship unit loads ; ;

`` The ship is huge '', said Macneff, `` but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.

Hector and the Trojans succeed in burning one Greek ship, the culmination of an assault that almost finishes the war.

* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.

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

Suspicious, the Blight discovers that one of the ships contains a data storage device in its cargo manifest ; assuming it contains information that could harm it, the Blight destroys the ship.

The boxes are rapidly failing and the surviving adults begin unloading them, but are killed when one of two rival forces of Tines seize the ship.

In a ship there are often several decks, but a boat is unlikely to have more than one, if any at all.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

Orion needed just one broadside to reduce the frigate to a wreck, and Martin's disabled ship drifted away over the shoal.

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

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

Four other ships sit along the coastline, one on fire while a large ship and a small ship are grounded on a shoal which is surmounted by a burning fort.

They were lighter and could outmaneuver the quinqueremes, where one objective was to ram the enemy ship and at the same time attack the above-deck crew with a shower of arrows and catapult-launched stones, which were large enough to decapitate a man.

Smaller transportation canals can carry barges or narrowboats, while ship canals allow seagoing ships to travel to an inland port ( e. g., Manchester Ship Canal ), or from one sea or ocean to another ( e. g., Caledonian Canal, Panama Canal ).

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

On one occasion, crew members ransacked the trading ship Mary and tortured several of its crew members while Kidd and the other captain, Thomas Parker, conversed privately in Kidd's cabin.

They are not replicas of any one ship, but an attempt to combine what their builders consider the " best " qualities of clipper ships.

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