With Brueys dead and his van and centre defeated, the rear division of the French fleet attempted to break out of the bay, but ultimately only two ships of the line and two frigates escaped, from a total of 17 ships engaged.

In deploying his ships in this way, Brueys hoped that the British would be forced by the shoals to attack his strong centre and rear, allowing his van to use the prevailing northeasterly wind to counterattack the British once they were engaged.

Most numerous among those using the islands were British and American sealers, where typically between 40 and 50 ships were engaged in exploiting fur seals.

He was engaged to build the machinery for making ships ' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy in the Portsmouth Block Mills.

* 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.

During the Korean War, the shipyard was engaged in the activation of ships.

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.

It was now primarily a transit point for ships engaged in the slave trade between the West and continental Africa.

* Like the storm of 721, the storm of this year at the southern Chinese seaport of Yangzhou reportedly destroys over 1, 000 ships engaged in canal and river traffic.

In the British fleet, and, two ships of the West Indies squadron that were among the most heavily engaged, were in quite poor condition.

Captain de Boades of the Réfléchi was killed in the opening broadside of Admiral Drake's Princessa, and the four ships of the French van were, according to a French observer, " engaged with seven or eight vessels at close quarters.

Both stories take place aboard colony ships orbiting Tau Ceti, where sentient computers have engaged crew and colonists in a fight for survival.

During World War II, American PT boats engaged enemy destroyers and numerous other surface craft, ranging from small boats to large supply ships.

Leaving the Downs, Albemarle came upon De Ruyter's fleet of 85 ships at anchor, and he immediately engaged the nearest Dutch ship before the rest of the fleet could come to its assistance.

During the next eight years, Cox and his workforce of divers, engineers, and labourers engaged in the complex task of sealing the multiple holes in the wrecks and welding huge steel tubes to the hulls to allow compressed air to be pumped into the ships to raise them.

On the other hand, their ships were a motley collection, many of them small, and if engaged by the whole of Nelson's force, outgunned.

There he engaged three of Parker's ships, which had lost their manoeuvrability after being badly damaged and had drifted within range.

Of the Danish ships engaged in the battle, two sank, one exploded, and twelve were captured.

Due to the focus on marine business, during the formative years of Lloyd's ( between 1688 and 1807 ), one of the sources of Lloyd's business was the insurance of ships engaged in slave trading, as Britain rapidly established itself as the chief trading power in the Atlantic.

In the south, off-shore side, Doria was engaged in a melee with Uluç Ali's ships, taking the worse part.

While the Christian ships struggled to come to her assistance, she was soon surrounded by enemy galleys and engaged in a furious battle that lasted hours and did much damage to the Ottoman galleys.

The Turks swiftly engaged the Venetian, Papal and Maltese ships, but Doria hesitated to bring his center into action against Barbarossa, which led to much tactical maneuvering but little fighting.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Portuguese visitors and their South Asian lascar ( and sometimes African ) crewmembers often engaged in slavery in Japan, where they bought or captured young Japanese women and girls, who were either used as sexual slaves on their ships or taken to Macau and other Portuguese colonies in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and India.

The second ship in the British lee column, Belleisle, was engaged by Aigle, Achille, Neptune and Fougeux ; she was soon completely dismasted, unable to manoeuvre and largely unable to fight, as her sails blinded her batteries, but kept flying her flag for 45 minutes until the following British ships came to her rescue.

for navigation aids to give accurate bearings to ships and aircraft ; ;

Sometimes ships waited for days for such a man, but Captain Heard was lucky.

The morning hawk, hungry for any eatable, killable, digestible item, kept his eyes on the ring of anchored ships that lay off the shores in the bay, sheltered by the Jersey inlets.

The British ships rolled at anchor, sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London.

Waited for more ships, more lobster-backed infantry, and asked what was to be done with a war of rebellion??

`` The Dictionary Of Occupational Titles '' published by the U. S. Department of Labor describes him as follows: `` Designs, plans and furnishes interiors of houses, commercial and institutional structures, hotels, clubs, ships, theaters, as well as set decorations for motion picture arts and television.

It recalls to mind the quest of olden times for the fountain of youth, a quest heavily invested in, during the days of wooden ships.

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

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Bruce gained his early reputation from the production of large-scale commercial anchors for ships and fixed installations such as oil rigs.

Ajax argues that because of his strength and the fighting he has done for the Greeks, including saving the ships from Hector, and driving him off with a massive rock, he deserves the armor.

Thus for example Heraclitus ' The Allegorist ' quoted fr. 326 and part of fr. 6, about ships in a storm, in his study on Homer's use of allegory.

Recreating the fyrd into a standing army, ringing Wessex with some thirty garrisoned fortified towns, and constructing new and larger ships for the royal fleet were costly endeavours that provoked resistance from noble and peasant alike.

The Danes had beached half their ships, and gone inland, either to rest their rowers or to forage for food.

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.

Partly for this reason, Alberta has never developed a large presence in the industries that have traditionally started industrialization in other places ( notably the original Industrial Revolution in Great Britain ) but which require large labour forces, and large internal markets or easy transportation to export markets, namely textiles, metallurgy, or transportation-related manufacturing ( automotives, ships, or train cars ).

The Athenians also arranged for the other members of the league to pay its share of the expense in money instead of in ships and men, and for this the subject city-states had themselves to blame, their wish to get out of giving service making most leave their homes.

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

Ironclads were designed for several roles, including as high seas battleships, coastal defence ships, and long-range cruisers.

In recent years, the Port Authority has established it as one of the most important ports in Spain for cruises, with 72 calls to port made by cruise ships in 2007 bringing some 80, 000 passengers and 30, 000 crew to the city each year.

Phillip's plan was for a squadron of three ships of the line and a frigate to mount a raid on Buenos Aires and Monte Video, then to proceed to the coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico to maraud, and ultimately to cross the Pacific to join the British Navy's East India squadron for an attack on Manila.