In the film version, the craft are grey and cubic, a continuation of the emphasis on bureaucracy in the Vogons ' conception: " Douglas's description of the Vogon ships hanging in the air in much the same way that bricks don't to these Vogon ships which are these massive concrete tower blocks, with hardly any windows, they just have a few doors around the base ," says Joel Collins.

The two escape by hitching a lift on one of the Vogon demolition ships.

He was appointed Naval Constructor 28 June 1794 and began work on these ships, the beginnings of the U. S. Navy.

After his apprenticeship he worked for the Admiralty on specifications and calculations for new ships, and became secretary to the then Chief Constructor of the Admiralty, Edward Reed, until the latter's resignation on 9 July 1870.

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

The 11 ships of the First Fleet set sail on 13 May 1787.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

* Failing in his role as fast armoured scout to report to Jellicoe the exact position of the German ships he encountered, or to keep in contact with the German fleet while he retreated to the main British Grand Fleet.

In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.

* 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.

His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port – at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain – but at the time the public were disappointed that he had lost more ships ( mainly due to dangerous ammunition-handling procedures on British battlecruisers ) and had not won a victory as crushing as Trafalgar.

The new ships, together with the existing reserve flagship and four reserve battleships were to become one new squadron for the High Seas Fleet.

* MARS tanker ( Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability ), a programme to buy new tanker ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

* 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts ( the " First Fleet ") to establish a penal colony in Australia.

In 1987 the Navy consisted ( as it does now ) of the naval headquarters in Beijing ; three fleet commands – the North Sea Fleet, based at Qingdao, Shandong ; the East Sea Fleet, based at Ningbo ; and the South Sea Fleet, based at Zhanjiang, Guangdong – and about 2, 000 ships.

Starship designs were produced which closely resemble the Kzinti / Mirak ships from the Star Fleet Universe, a gaming universe that includes the boardgame Star Fleet Battles and its PC analogue Star Fleet Command.

This is part of an extensive military outreach program, which also includes a series of Military Appreciation Night games, and game tapes mailed to deployed United States Navy ships of the Pacific Fleet for onboard viewing ( a large portion of the Pacific Fleet is homeported in San Diego ).

As a result, fourteen cargo ships known as " The Yellow Fleet " remained trapped in the canal for over eight years.

The United States Navy named two ships for Roosevelt: the, a submarine that was in commission from 1961 to 1982 ; and the, an aircraft carrier that has been on active duty in the Atlantic Fleet since 1986.

Meanwhile, during a joint military exercise, Japanese ships " accidentally " launch torpedoes at the U. S. Pacific Fleet, destroying two submarines and crippling two aircraft carriers.

* January 26 – Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, land at Sydney Cove ( which will become Sydney ), Australia, where he determines to establish the British prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

A First Fleet of British ships arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 to establish a penal colony.

After the Z Plan was completed in the mid-1940s, Raeder's plans called for a " double pole strategy ", in which U-boats, Panzerschiffe and cruisers operating alone or in tandem would attack British commerce all over the globe, forcing the Royal Navy to divert ships all over the world to deal with these threats while at the same time two task forces of carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers would engage in frequent sorties into the North Sea, preferably from bases in Norway to destroy what remained of the British Home Fleet in a series of battles that would give Germany command of the sea.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

The larger ships were near Paulus Hook, already being called, by a few, Jersey City.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

Merchant ships illuminated in the light of the flares, made to seem like stones imbedded in a lake of polished mud, were impossible to miss.

But men willing to sail at all into waters where wooden ships could be crushed like eggs were hard to find.

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.

Brain ships were, of course, long past the experimental stages.

Nearly 3, 700 Allied ships were sunk at a cost of 783 German U-boats.

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

Nearly all of them were passengers on 16 commercial ( nongovernmental ) ships and several yachts that made 116 trips during the summer.

In 1099, a Byzantine fleet of 10 ships were sent to assist the Crusaders in capturing Laodicea and other coastal towns as far as Tripoli.

Two of the ships were destroyed and the others surrendered to Alfred ’ s forces.

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 chronicler flattered his royal patron by boasting that Alfred's ships were not only larger, but swifter, steadier and rode higher in the water than either Danish or Frisian ships.

When that occurred, the Danes rushed back to their boats, which being lighter, with shallower drafts, were freed before Alfred's ships.

In result, the fortification walls of Thasos were torn down, their land and naval ships were confiscated by Athens.

The Persians followed up their victory by sending a fleet to re-establish their control over Cyprus, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under Cimon, who returned from ostracism in 451 BC.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.

The first ships protected by iron armour were Kobuksons built in the early 15th century.