It has been suggested that the character identified as " Care " below is really the ship's figurehead ( as shown in the first illustration ), and that " Hope " is actually the Boots.

The ship's wooden female figurehead had washed ashore.

The USS Lancaster Eagle | figurehead of USS Lancaster ( 1858 ) | USS Lancaster carved by John Haley Bellamy and on display at The Mariners ' MuseumIt is still common practise for warships to carry ships ' badges, large plaques mounted on the superstructure with a unique design relating to the ship's name or role.

The ship's figurehead was in the shape of a dragon.

Prominent from the platforms and dominating the main entrance elevation, almost like a ship's figurehead, is a statue by Eric Aumonier of a kneeling archer captured as if having just released an arrow along the railway line towards central London.

) The original version of the statue is thought to have been a modified ship's figurehead.

Following a shipwreck in 1851, when the ship's figurehead washed up in the Devil's Hole, a statue of a devil adapted from the figurehead was set up above the Hole.

A naval battle entailed a ship's coming alongside an enemy vessel, at which point the crew would lash the two ships together and board the enemy.

As an example, an iron or steel ship's hull may be protected by a zinc sacrificial anode, which will dissolve into the seawater and prevent the hull from being corroded.

Whatever its origin, the fire spread rapidly though the ship's rigging, unchecked by the fire pumps aboard which had been smashed by British shot.

John Clements Wickham named the region " Port Darwin " in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836.

Printed in 1897, the novel is compiled entirely of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, doctor's notes, ship's logs, and the like, which Stoker adroitly employs to balance believability and dramatic tension.

Sarris chases the Protector into a space minefield, which damages the beryllium sphere that powers the ship's reactor.

The system was a simple one in which each ship received a number which was appended to its ship type, fully spelled out, and added parenthetically after the ship's name when deemed necessary to avoid confusion between ships.

The letter is followed by a three-digit number ; the first digit indicates the NOAA " class " ( i. e., size ) of the vessel, which NOAA assigns based on the ship's gross tonnage and horsepower, while the next two digits combine with the first digit to create a unique three-digit identifying number for the ship.

Clement of Alexandria, in his Paedagogus ( The Pedagogue ) 3. 59. 2-3. 60, writes that Christians may wear a seal ring for the sealing of documents, and he specifies permissible depictions: " And let our seals be either a dove, or a fish, or a ship scudding before the wind, or a musical lyre, which Polycrates used, or a ship's anchor, which Seleucus got engraved as a device ; and if there be one fishing, he will remember the apostle, and the children drawn out of the water.

Usually heat from nuclear fission is passed to a working fluid ( water or gas ), which runs through turbines that power either ship's propellers or generators.

For some time the travelling public has been catered for with ship's messes and railway restaurant cars which are, in effect, travelling restaurants.

; Gul: Gul is an officer rank title which is approximately equivalent to a ship's captain.

It is conjectured that this kicking style was developed in this way to allow the fighter to use a hand to hold onto something for balance on a rocking ship's deck, and that the kicks and slaps were used on land to avoid the legal penalties for using a closed fist, which was considered a deadly weapon under the law.

The interior of a TARDIS is much larger than its exterior, which can blend in with its surroundings using the ship's " chameleon circuit ".

This was explained in the context of the series as a disguise created by the ship's " chameleon circuit ", a mechanism which is responsible for changing the outside appearance of the ship in order to fit in with its environment.

Regardless of these issues of the originality of the ship's structure, for Athenians the preserved ship kept fresh their understanding that Theseus had been an actual, historic figure — which none then doubted — and gave them a tangible connection to their divine providence.

The movie portrays a scene in which the U-boat sailors kill the Allied merchant crewmen who have survived their ship's sinking, in compliance with naval policy and so that the survivors do not report the U-boat position.

Although German U-boat crews were under War Order No. 154 not to rescue survivors, which was also the policy of the Allies, out of several thousand sinkings of merchant ships in World War II, there is only one documented case of a U-boat crew's deliberately attacking the ship's survivors: that of the U-852, whose crew attacked survivors of the Greek ship Peleus.

In telecommunication, a bridge-to-bridge station is a ship station operating in the port operations service in which messages are restricted to navigational communications and which is capable of operation from the ship's navigational bridge or, in the case of a dredge, from its main control station, operating on a frequency or frequencies in the 156-162 MHz band.

The Making of Star Trek states that shields are force fields similar in nature to the navigational deflector, while Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise further states that shields on post-refit Constitution-class vessels-of which the USS Enterprise of Star Trek: The Original Series is an example-were generated by the subatomic scan and replication of an alloy known as diburnium-osmium, and then projected as a force field beyond a ship's hull along the shield grid.

Geordi LaForge personally performed the delicate operation, which involved compensating for the ship's relativistic motion.

* they are unaffected by ferromagnetic materials, such as ship's steel hull, which change the magnetic field.

One of the mines washed up against the ship's rudder, exploded and caused the ship to sink, with loss of 120 of the ship's complement of 200.

One of the ship's life rafts, containing many bodies, was blown by gales along the coast and was washed ashore in Dorset.

In one incident, the ship's officer turned off the ship's water supply while rescuees were being washed after an outbreak of diarrhoea.

Several members of the crew, including the ship's lamp trimmer, Samuel Hemming, and Second Officer Charles Lightoller said they saw Murdoch attempting to free Collapsible A from the falls on the Boat Deck just before the bridge submerged and a huge wave washed him overboard into the sea.

Tradition holds that one of the ship's boats, named the " Chatham ", washed up near the Miramichi River, giving rise to the town's name.

Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.

God calls up a great storm at sea, and the ship's crew cast Jonah overboard in an attempt to appease God.

In a much publicized wartime tragedy, the sinking of the USAT Dorchester, the ship's multi-faith chaplains gave up their lifebelts to evacuating seamen and stood together " arm in arm in prayer " as the ship went down.

By simply holding the fire button down, the player can build up energy in their ship, drawing in tiny, glowing particles through the ship's nose.

The blast hit the ship's galley, where crew were lining up for lunch.

Valjean was assigned a new number of 9430, but escapes from a sailing vessel after only a few months ' imprisonment, on the 16. 11. 1823, by apparently falling into the sea after a daring rescue of a sailor who had gotten stuck in a dangerous situation up in the ship's rigging.

The ship's company is then told they are to be broken up and sent as replacements to other ships that have lost men.

Many timbers were floated up the Maumee River to be used as ship's masts.

With the ship's course unable to be changed and Starfleet now intrigued by what Archer had become aware of, Forrest was ordered to investigate, he also had Archer punished in the Agony Booth for a then record of ten hours, giving the Commander only one hour to clean up and get ready for a staff meeting after his release.

The seminal American Yacht Designer of the first half of last century, Francis Herreshoff, reflected this traditional definition of a yawl as " a ship's boat resembling the pinnace " set up to be primarily rowed.

The Operations Specialists in the Combat Information Center have been known to call up the Surface Warfare Officers on the ship's bridge watch team asking them to urgently get a visual on the incoming B1RD ( bird ) or GU-11 ( gull ) contacts.

In Star Trek: 25th Anniversary the player can assign Scotty to repair the ship's systems ( e. g., prop up the shields, restore weapon functionality, or repair the scanners to remove static from the main screen ).

In this alternate, futuristic universe, men and women ( at least on Taraak and Mejere ) consider each other to be completely separate species ( Hibiki gains the nickname " Mr. Alien " from Dita Liebely, the female protagonist ), and the three men put up with much abuse at the hands of their female captors, but gradually make their presence accepted: Hibiki as a mecha fighter and technician, Duelo as a skilled doctor and engineer, and Bart as the ship's helmsman and navigator.

They try to thaw the inside of the spacecraft with a thermite charge, but end up accidentally destroying it when the ship's magnesium hull is ignited by the charge.

In 1811 the trading ship Tonquin was blown up in Clayoquot Sound when its efforts to trade were turned into an attack by Nuu-chah-nulth in revenge for an insult by the ship's captain.

This was in contrast to the Windward Islands further south, which were up wind from the sailing ship's point of arrival, in other words " windward ", and had to be reached by sailing against the wind.

The design of the new sign is a ship's mast with the attraction name written in its black sails, and a skeleton of a pirate up in its crow's nest.

Out of curiosity the ship's passengers disembark to view the egg, only to end up breaking it and having the chick inside as a meal.

Such features include the froch — space sensory organ — which is a compound eye made up of a bundle of approximately 100 million smaller eyes found on Abh foreheads that, with the help of an almfac or tiara connected to the ship, helps Abhs to sense the ship's directions and processes ; such information is processed at a special section of the Abh brain called the rilbidoc or " voyage field " which allows them to make decisions that will make them navigate their ships with greater accuracy.

Kanikōsen In 2008, " A Crab Canning Boat ," a 1929 Marxist novel about a crab-canning ship's crew determined to stand up to a cruel manager under harsh conditions, became a surprise bestseller, thanks to an advertising campaign linking the novel to the working poor.

" code words from the moderately powered transmitter were heard over the ship's radio in Japan by Admiral Yamamoto and his staff, who were sitting up through the night awaiting word on the attack.

Instead, he recounts a story of human brutality, being adrift on a lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the ship's cook, who killed the sailor and Pi's mother and cut them up to use as bait and food.