When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

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.

When she awoke, she was the ship.

When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.

When Heureux and Mercure had cut their anchor cables to escape the exploding Orient, their crews had panicked and neither captain ( both of whom were wounded ) had managed to regain control of their ship.

When war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten became commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla aboard his ship Kelly, which was famous for its many daring exploits.

When a ship is at the horizon, its lower part is obscured due to the curvature of the Earth.

When they refused to hand the arms to the government, Ben-Gurion ordered that the ship be sunk.

When Audubon, at age 18, boarded ship for emigration to the United States in 1803, he changed his name to an anglicized form: John James Audubon.

When Lois Lane and Clark Kent are invited to a society gala aboard Luthor's yacht, terrorists seize the ship without warning, forcing Superman to intervene.

When the ship approached, " many canoes ventured out to meet the ship.

When a despairing Mayerson chooses death, he finds himself apparently forced into Eldritch's body right at the point in the timeline where Bulero is ready to shoot a torpedo at Eldritch's ship.

When his uncle Kemal Reis died in 1511 ( his ship was wrecked by a storm in the Mediterranean Sea, while he was heading to Egypt ), Piri returned to Gelibolu, where he started working on his studies about navigation.

When the lights come on again, Hamlet has vanished ( in Hamlet it's reported that he was kidnapped by pirates from the ship ).

When detached, the Force can be made to fire, but it uses an array of simple blasters rather than the weapons it supplies to the ship.

When Swedish colleagues feared for a possible German occupation, he managed to leave on a cargo ship, together with Ernst Cassirer ( the former rector of Hamburg University ) to New York City to become part of the wider community of intellectual émigrés who fled there.

When they enter the barrier, the ship is damaged and they detect a settlement with 8, 000 people who are mostly human.

When the Enterprise-E arrives to do battle with the Narada, Nero agrees to beam Worf over if the ship will lower its shields.

When Captain Data agrees, Worf is beamed back to the ship, giving the Narada time to fire on the Enterprise.

When the ship travels back in time to the 21st century, he works alongside Dr. Zefram Cochrane and helps him successfully launch Earth's first warp-capable vessel and achieve first contact with the Vulcans ( Star Trek: First Contact ).

When the group's ship suffers a warp core breach and is going to explode, he offers to beam them aboard his ship so they can survive, but they refuse and tell him to move off to a safe distance which he does.

When the locals begin an open rebellion against Ra's troops, Ra decides to retreat and prepares his ship for takeoff.

When a section of the canal needs to be sealed off so it can be drained for maintenance stop planks are frequently used.

When a canal was built through the land his body was placed in storage in a warehouse for several years before being secretly deposited in the crypt of Christ Church ( demolished 1899 ), Birmingham.

When first built, the canal was long and deep.

When the canal was completed it linked the river systems of the Qiantang River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Yellow River, the Wei River and the Hai River.

When Foljambe asks Charles if Myers is there to provide financial backing for the purchase of the canal, Charles says nothing, but his manner makes it clear that Foljambe has guessed correctly.

When sufficiently large, the nodules compress the urethral canal to cause partial, or sometimes virtually complete, obstruction of the urethra, which interferes with the normal flow of urine.

When the canal was gone, the prosperity in Port Crane left with it.

When the Erie Canal opened, the farm, through which the canal passed at the Canawaugus Road, was sold to become the first village lots.

When the canal was filled in the first half of the 20th century, Oriskany Boulevard was built over the filled-in canal.

When built, the canal company constructed the entire link as a railway, which opened in 1805.

When the flight of locks finally opened in 1810, allowing the same vessel to navigate the entire canal, the rate of carriage per ton from London to Bath was £ 2 9s 6d.

When complete the canal have been just shy of long.

When a sound is received by the ear it can either go straight down the ear into the ear canal or it can be reflected off the pinnae of the ear, into the ear canal a fraction of a second later.

There are four locks, of various sizes at the North Sea mouth of the canal: When the north canal lock was opened in 1929 it was the largest canal lock in the world.

When Doug Fullerton was appointed chair of the National Capital Commission, he proposed a recreational corridor around the canal, including the winter skateway between Carleton University and Confederation Park.

When the canal was opened the level of the lake dropped nearly nine feet ( 3 m ).

When the canal was finally completed, it failed to have a major impact on the economy of the regions it was built to serve.

When the canal first opened, teams of mules were used to tow canal boats through it ( the steam engine was not yet applied to such uses ).