Tuf's hand is forced, and he unleashes a barrage of other creatures to directly counteract the monsters.

He is hailed as a hero due to the advancements in food supply, now known as " Tuf's Flowering.

" This is also due to Tuf and Mune, a highly inaccurate, overly-dramatized movie about Tuf's first adventure on S ' uthlam, which Mune encouraged so as to build public support for Tuf's plan ( and save her political skin from the fallout of helping Tuf escape with Ark ).

As the story progresses, Tuf's character is revealed to be that of Piper's self-reliant man, as the power of the Ark allows him to solve the apparently intractable problems of several worlds.

Four of Tuf's passengers die due to the infesting plague, the wandering monsters, or by fighting one another.

One of Tuf's cats dies due to the plagues, and Tuf uses the seedship's capabilities to clone it.

In an attempt to secure it, Portmaster Tolly Mune kidnaps one of Tuf's cats.

However, paradoxically, the overpopulation crisis has become even worse due to the S ' uthlamese people's over-optimistic response to Tuf's Flowering, increasing their reproduction rates.

S ' uthlam's population problem remains, worse than ever, as Tuf's innovations from his previous visit were not maximally used.

Finally, in " Manna from Heaven " ( 1985 ), he provides the S ' uthlamese and their enemies with a solution that simultaneously averts both famine and war but covertly imposes birth control upon the " religious crazies " of S ' uthlam's Church of Life Evolving ( characterized as " Anti-entropists, kiddie-culters, helix-humpers, genepool puddlers "), forcing Tolly Mune to accept Tuf's induced population implosion as the only alternative to social breakdown and genocide.

Argent, upon waves of the sea a two-masted ship in full sail proper flagged Gules, on a chief per pale Azure and Gules to the dexter a Cornucopia Or, to the sinister a Shovel surmounted by a Pick, in Saltire proper.

Jervis signalled his rearmost ship, Excellent to come to the wind on the larboard tack and following this order, Collingwood brought his ship round to a position ahead of Culloden.

At about 2: 30, Excellent having been directed by signal to bear up, edged away and at 2: 35, arriving abreast of the disabled Spanish three-decker Salvator del Mundo, engaged the latter on her weather bow for a few minutes ; then passing on to the next Spanish ship in succession, the San Ysidro, whose three topmasts had already been shot away.

* was a unique Type 82 class destroyer launched in 1973 and now permanently moored at HMS Excellent, Portsmouth as a training ship.

Excellent was originally built as the Queen Charlotte at Deptford Dockyard in May 1810 and was a 1st rate ship of the line 190 feet long by 53½ feet wide.

In December 1859 the Queen Charlotte was renamed Excellent when she took over the function from the original Excellent of being the Royal Navy's gunnery training ship permanently moored in Portsmouth.

Within the Navy training at Excellent was popular and Excellent was also used as a boys ' training ship and a mizzen mast was kept rigged for sail training.

Tryon took and passed examinations at the Royal naval college Portsmouth and HMS Excellent before returning to a ship.

* Break bulk cargo ( also breakbulk cargo ): Goods that must be loaded aboard a ship individually, and not in intermodal containers or in bulk, carried by a general cargo ship.

A tale of a massive reservation in the Uplands to hold several million Jews A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar Stories of the depravity of the guards at Globocnik's camps struck a chord of terror at the mere mention of their names.

Never let anyone not in the know take a turn at the valves -- even if the little boys do want to play space ship.

A ship at dry-dock could be called a foamy-necked floater in Anglo-Saxon or a swift ship in Greek.

Following a talk by Mr. Clark at the New York State Natural Food Associates Convention, a man from the audience offered to ship his unsprayed apples to the school from Vermont.

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

Had there been another `` brain '' ship at the Base at the moment, Helva would have been guided to make the first move.

The saucers are of two kinds: Large saucers fire in random directions, while small saucers aim at the player's ship.

The ship will seek a location which is sufficiently protected ; has suitable holding ground, enough depth at low tide and enough room for the boat to swing.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

Nero designed a ship that would open at the bottom while at sea.

According to the ship's log, Selkirk died at 8 p. m. on 13 December 1721 while serving as a lieutenant on board the Royal ship Weymouth.

Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

The ship landed in 1630 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established at what is now Boston, Massachusetts.

After much experience at sea, including command of a ship that was saved in a storm by convicts, Phillip sailed with the First Fleet, as Governor-designate of the proposed British penal colony of New South Wales.

During a storm encountered in the course of the voyage, the convicts assisted in working the ship and, on arrival at Colonia, Phillip recommended that they be rewarded for saving the ship by remission of their sentences.

In late 1792 Phillip, whose health was suffering from the poor diet, at last received permission to leave, and on 11 December 1792 he sailed in the ship Atlantic, taking with him many specimens of plants and animals.

The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.

One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.

The Capone family immigrated to the United States, first immigrating from Italy to Rijeka, Croatia in 1893, traveling on a ship to the U. S and finally settled at 95 Navy Street, in the Navy Yard section of downtown Brooklyn.

** The Low Lantern: A three-masted ship moored on the northeast side of the harbor along Stormshore Street.

* During World War II, a Liberty ship was named after her, the SS Juliette Low, hull number 2446.

The military expedition to the Low Countries under Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in 1585 gave Banister another opportunity of public service, and he served on board ship.