The Mystery Ship
When I read this story it brought to mind all of those Dracula movies that I have seen where they show a ship coming into harbor with no one alive aboard or a ship full of corpses. The American ship Mary Celeste was seen sailing erratically by Captain David Morehouse aboard the British brig Dei Gratia near the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The strangest thing was that the ship was seaworthy and all of its stores and supplies were aboard and untouched but there was not a single living soul on the vessel.
On November 7, 1872 the Mary Celeste sailed from New York harbor heading for Genoa, Italy. Aboard the ship were Captain Benjamin S. Briggs, his wife and two year old daughter and a crew of eight. The cargo consisted
It’s Your Ship, by Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff is good read on understanding the basics of what he calls grassroots leadership he developed while a Commander in the Navy. He takes the reader through the journey of having a cutting-edge ship handed over him, while finding his own leadership lacking his expectations. While defying conventional Navy leadership tactics, Abrashoff created “a crew of confident and inspired problem-solvers eager to take the initiative and responsibility for their actions.” He ultimately succeeded in turning the USS Benfold into the “best damn ship in the Navy” in a
Ocean Carriers is evaluating a proposed three year lease of a ship. Currently, no ships in Ocean Carrier's fleet meet the requirements of the customer. Since the new ship requires an investment of $39 million, Mary Linn, the Vice President of Finance for Ocean Carriers, needs to evaluate the proposal's NPV and determine whether or not to accept the proposal by considering expected cash flows, tax implications, and future market conditions.
When discovered in a storm, her six year streak came to an end in 1867. Fed up with her misfortune, the owners sold her to Robert Haines from New York. After nursing her back to health, Robert Haines “transferred her from her Canadian to American registry” and gave her the now famous name Mary Celeste (Lyons 48). Haines sold the vessel to James Winchester, Benjamin Spooner Briggs (her new captain), and two others who shared ownership over the now American ship (Lyons 48).
P.W. Singer and August Cole’s 2015 novel, Ghost Fleet, demonstrates how the American military’s trending dependence on high-tech, networked warfighting may be vulnerable to foreign near-peer and hybrid threats. Merging expertise from Washington-based foreign policy think tanks and defense technology sectors, the authors weave a fictional, yet plausible depiction of a near-future war featuring the United States, China, and Russia.
In the story “The Open Boat”, there are four men who is a captain, a cook, an oiler and a correspondent. They were in a small boat after their ship sank off the coast of Florida. The crew headed to the lighthouse happily after the cook says there was a house for refuge nearby. But the fact is that no one is there, so they have to row back to sea. Then they saw some people showing up on the beach, so they believed to be rescued this time, but those people thought they were fishing. Then the captain decided that no one was coming to save them, therefore, they had to swim to shore when they still had strength. The oiler swims strongly, but he is the only man who is dead at the end of the story.
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“Knowing how the men in the water died is not the same thing as knowing why they
That has been what I have been doing on the ship for the last year. It wasn’t always just me doing this; I am the last member of my crew on its way back to earth. My crew, my friends, my family, all gone and I don’t even know how it happened. Maybe it happened when they were on there way back from the surface or maybe something went wrong on the ship ether way, all that’s left of the explosion is a big hole in the shuttle bay and a lot of gamma radiation. In fact the gamma rays are the only thing keeping me from investigating the area.
In the transcript “Forgotten Ship” Shapiro and the crew of the U.S.S. Kirk are trying to show that they were worried. In the transcript “Forgotten ship” Shapiro describes how they wanted the helicopters to land on the ship but they had some complications “It wasn’t clear that the pilots could land on a moving ship.” The words “It wasn’t clear that the pilots could land”this gives you a sense that the crew was worried if they could help them land or not. In this section of the transcript Mr. Doyle explains how the helicopters lost fuel and crashed so they need somewhere to land “Well, they were flying out to sea. Some of them were very low on fuel and some of them crashed alongside larger ships.” The words “some of them crashed alongside
The Nonfiction book I chose was Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brandon Hicks. The author’s intent is to inform readers of the history of the Mary Celeste, and its legacy on maritime mysteries. The Mary Celeste was a merchant ship in the 1800s, and was captained by shareholder Benjamin Briggs when the tragedy took place. After sailing from a port in New York it began its journey across the Atlantic in foul weather. Weeks after it left New York, it was spotted by a ship and it was discovered that the crew was missing. The first few chapters of the book are to tell the readers about how the Mary Celeste came to be, mostly describing where/how it was built and its first commissions (cargo it had
Ocean Carriers is evaluating a proposed lease for a ship over three years starting in 2003. Currently, Ocean Carriers does not have any ships that are available to meet this customer demand. This report will assist VP of Finance Mary Lynn to make a decision on whether or not to commission a new carrier and how long to hold on to this asset.
Shipwrecked originates from an exceptionally well known type of play. You are stranded on a betrayed isle; how or why, know one knows. In any case, here you are and you gotta make the best of it. You look your surroundings and soon find you are not the only one.
Crumbling castles, carnage, and chaos clouds the image the mind creates when depicting the Middle Ages. We see it as a period in history that, supposedly, holds a semblance with darkness; a time where culture was a part of the past and a wish for the future. The term ‘Dark Ages’ is considered to be synonymous with this portion in history. However, despite these claims, the literature from the Middle Ages proves that this era was not so dark.
Leader ship is an attribute I believe I already possess. I believe I would make a great leader because, I am determined to always do my best. Throughout my academic career I have had many instances where I had to step up and take charge as leader. The reason I feel I would make a suitable leader is, the fact that I am ready and willing to do the job. No matter what place in office I go for, I am ready to do all the work needed to keep each and every meeting of the National Junior Honor Society as organized as possible. I also have been told I am very trust worthy and considerate person by many people in my life, those are two attributes that I personally believe all leaders should have. I also feel like I would make a good leader because
Mary Jane first experienced world travel in an unusual way, as part of the crew on a Chinese junk named La Dame de Canton, the first to be built in the old way in decades. La Dame sailed from Canton, now Guangzhou, to Paris in the early 1980s. Just as in the old days of exploration by sail, the voyage took a couple of years to complete, with many stops along the way for fresh water and supplies, and, yes, for repairs as well.