The danger of fire on wooden ships was simply too great and the town cook house was built to serve as the harbour cooking facility.

He also worked as a cook and laborer on blockade runner ships.

Gloria talks to Cookie, as Bosun, the ships First Mate, talks to Captain Tempest about how to gain the love of Miranda.

It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.

* is the name of two ships of the Royal Navy

* 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

Though their holding-power-to-weight ratio is significantly lower than admiralty pattern anchors, their ease of handling and stowage aboard large ships led to almost universal adoption.

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.

In Book 15, Hector is restored to his strength by Apollo and returns to attack the ships.

Hector is set on burning the ships, the only way he feels the Greeks will truly be defeated.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

Unlike the typical hijackings of land vehicles or ships, skyjacking is not usually committed for robbery or theft.

* 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

The port is accessible by the largest ships, but its accommodation is indifferent.

In modern times it is an important route for Alaska Marine Highway ferries as well as cruise ships.

Ship traffic in the area is seasonally busy with cruise ships.

Altair is the name of three United States navy ships:, and.

The Sparrow was used as the basis for a surface-to-air missile, the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow, which is used by the United States Navy for air defense of its ships.

A characteristic application is to the protection of ships ' bottoms, but more modern methods of cathodic protection have rendered its use less common.

The strategy is to buy or build 2 aircraft carriers ( 40, 000 tonnes ), 4 LHD ( 20, 000 tonnes ), 30 escort ships, 15 submarines, 5 nuclear submarines and 62 ( patrol ships ).

A 45-degree course alteration is required for the ships at this point.

Another is the 1988 Koko case in which 5 ships transported 8, 000 barrels of hazardous waste from Italy to the small town of Koko in Nigeria in exchange for $ 100 monthly rent which was paid to a Nigerian for the use of his farmland.

Radioactive waste that is covered under other international control systems and wastes from the normal operation of ships is not covered.

It is possible that Bonaparte envisaged Aboukir Bay as a temporary anchorage: on 27 July he expressed the expectation that Brueys had already transferred his ships to Alexandria and three days later issued orders for the fleet to make for Corfu in preparation for naval operations against the Ottoman territories in the Balkans, although the courier carrying the instructions was intercepted and killed by Bedouin partisans.

Running vertically from the foreground to the background is a line of 14 anchored ships flying red, white and blue tricolour flags.

Combat occurs in real time, and involves firing weapons, either instantly damaging phasers or avoidable photon torpedoes depending on how far away enemy ships are, and what the player's ship is armed with.

The ten Athenian ships in the harbor rushed out and joined the attack, and the Peloponnesians were instantly routed.

Navtex is an international, automated system for instantly distributing maritime safety information ( MSI ) which includes navigational warnings, weather forecasts and weather warnings, search and rescue notices and similar information to ships.

In 1946 General Roy S. Geiger observed the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll and instantly recognized that atomic bombs could render amphibious landings difficult because of the dense concentrations of troops, ships and material at the beachhead.

In 1946, U. S. Marine General Roy S. Geiger observed the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll and instantly recognized that atomic bombs could render amphibious landings difficult because of the dense concentrations of troops, ships and material at beachheads.

Of the animals left on board the ships at anchor in Bikini Lagoon, approximately 10 % died instantly.

They have therefore installed in at least two ( and possibly all ) of their ships a ' Slaver Stasis field ', which stops time inside the hull instantly should anything bad happen, and keeps it stopped until the bad thing goes away.

French capital ships of this time were instantly identifiable by their small size ( 10, 000 tons ), huge spur rams, great height and pronounced tumble-home.

The wave instantly vaporizes smaller ships without losing momentum.

Reaver ships, captured from their victims, are instantly recognizable by the haphazard red stripes and bodies of victims adorning their hulls.

In a total blockade, action could also be taken against ships bringing in chemicals, oils, textiles, and even foodstuffs.

The concessionaires also had to pay a tax of one-tenth on the goods they traded, and all pelts were to be taken to company stores and shipped to France in company ships.

To replace them, large numbers of men were taken out of the frigates and distributed among the ships of the line.

After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners, but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French if it had French passes.

Not only were the whales taken in Magdalena Bay, but also by ships anchored along the coast from San Diego south to Cabo San Lucas and from whaling stations from Crescent City in northern California south to San Ignacio Lagoon.

After the end of the war in June 1919 the German fleet interned in Scapa Flow was scuttled by its crews, to avoid its ships being taken over by the victorious allies.

An article in The Daily Universal Register ( the forerunner of The Times ) of 23 December 1786 revealed the plan for a dual colonization of Norfolk Island and Botany Bay: “ The ships for Botany Bay are not to leave all the convicts there ; some of them are to be taken to Norfolk Island, which is about eight hundred miles East of Botany Bay, and about four hundred miles short of New Zealand ”.

On 3 May 1241, a combined fleet of Pisan and Sicilian ships, led by the Emperor's son Enzo, attacked a Genoese convoy carrying prelates from Northern Italy and France, next to the Isola del Giglio, in front of Tuscany: the Genoese lost 25 ships, while about thousand sailors, two cardinals and one bishop were taken prisoner.

The USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ) responded to the outpost's distress call and engaged the Romulan ships, but was defeated and taken with its survivors ( among them a version of Lieutenant Tasha Yar from the future of an alternate timeline ) back to Romulan territory.

The most direct example of the latter is that during the actual landing the 2nd Rangers disembarked from British ships and were taken to Omaha Beach by Royal Navy landing craft ( LCAs ).

In 1630, a Dutch fleet of 70 ships had taken the rich sugar-exporting areas of Pernambuco ( Brazil ) from the Portuguese but had lost everything by 1654.

Since its inception in 1948, the U. S. Navy nuclear program has developed 27 different plant designs, installed them in 210 nuclear powered ships, taken 500 reactor cores into operation, and accumulated over 5, 400 reactor years of operation and 128, 000, 000 miles safely steamed.

The latter use attracted the attention of wealthy Dutch merchants who began to build private yachts so they could be taken out to greet their returning ships.

** All German, Italian, and Danish ships anchored in United States waters are taken into " protective custody ".

* July 9 – Russo-Swedish War – Second Battle of Svensksund: In a massive Baltic Sea battle of 300 ships, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet: 304 Swedes are killed, 3, 500 Russians killed and 6, 000 captured, 51 Russian ships are sunk and 22 are taken.

* May 19 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons ( taken by Cartier during his first voyage ).

The rest of Admiral Drake's squadron also suffered heavy damage, but the casualties were not as severe as those taken on the first two ships.

Suffering a severe shortage of officers following the capture of most of the professional French army at the Siege of Metz and the Battle of Sedan, naval officers were taken from their ships to officer the hastily assembled gardes mobiles or French reserve army units.

In an inscription from Napata ( in the Berlin museum ) the Nubian king Nastasen relates that he had defeated the troops of " Kambasuten " and taken all his ships.

Almost all of the ships were sunk except for the flagship, the Royal Charles, which was taken back to the Netherlands as a trophy.

At this point the lower border of the tapestry shows a fleet of ghost-like ships thus hinting at a future invasion .< sup >( scene 33 )</ sup > The news of Harold's coronation is taken to Normandy, whereupon we are told that William is ordering a fleet of ships to be built although it is Bishop Odo shown issuing the instructions .< sup >( scene 35 )</ sup > The invaders reach England, and land unopposed.

Privateers proved to be far more successful that their US Navy counterparts, claiming three quarters of the 1600 British merchant ships taken during the war ( although a third of these were recaptured prior to making landfall ).