German Navy

Most of the sailors on the ship loved Billy Budd. However, Claggart and his sidekick Squeak, did not. Although Billy did his best to either avoid them, or on those occasions in which he did come face to face with one or the other, he did his best to be kind to them. While Billy was being as absolutely courteous as possible, that did not help the flaming hatred that was burning in their hearts. As a matter of speaking, Billy was actually feeding the rage and fury that had been smoldering there even

In the Golden Age of Piracy between the 16th and 17th century, the majority of pirates sailed under letters of marque which gave legal authorization to raid ships from other nations. English seamen were allowed to seize Spanish ships and sell their prizes at port. If England and Spain were at peace however, privateers would be forced to get letters of marque from other countries. Letters of marque gave pirates a way to bypass outright piracy and instead raid under a host nation. Using the broad

On the 11th of July, 1799, crowds assembled to watch the launching of the new ship. Final preparations were made, and the Prince of Wales climbed aboard, bearing a silver standing cup filled with wine. Two workers climbed onto the slipway carrying hammers, and split asunder the blocks preventing the ship from sliding prematurely. They then jumped into safety ditches as the ship went stern first down the slipway. As the ship settled into the water, the prince of wales poured the wine across the decks

On Friday, 14 April, 1944 which was a haunting day when SS Fort Stinkine arrived at Bombay to unload cargo. Her cargo includes crated spitfires, munitions, scrap iron, gold bars and around 1,400 tons of explosive, sulphur, cotton bales, timber, lubricating oil drums, Supermarine Spitfire fighter, turpentine, fish manure, rice and resin. A fire then broke out in the hold no. 2 at around 14:00 hrs and crew got alerted to the fire and efforts are made to extinguish the fire. Mean while dockside teams

As the doors closed behind him he got the worst of ideas. He could still save them. If they never left their home planet they wouldn't be in 1930's manhattan or in that graveyard. He'd have amy and rory back, the apalapachians would still be alive, the byzantium would never crash, and sally sparrow would lead a normal human life. It was impossible, but he had to try. He rushed to the console, flipping levers and punching buttons. "Come on sexy, I know you can do it." River felt the tardis begin

After her captain is killed, a trouble female crew member becomes captain and has to battle a demon who wants to return to Earth to control it. BRIEF SYNOPSIS In space, QUINN (30’S) is the only survivor of her crew. She’s found by another ship and CAPTAIN GUNNER interrogates her about the death of her crewmembers. Quinn tells Gunner that their ship received a distress call from another ship. On the other ship they found only one survivor, a prisoner, ZED HAINES, known as the Jamestown killer.

Big George could be found daily preparing his beloved Hobie Cat, having two hulls and one large mainsail. Men and boys helped with preparing the catamaran, hoisting the sail and launching it into the ocean by pushing until it hit the water, and jumping on to keep the boat straight into the crashing waves. Once beyond the waves, the real sailing began and George the captain took over. Upon returning to shore at the end of the day, six-year old George, the other person sharing the same name, could

The Captain walked over to his chair, he sat down in the seat and he put the key in the ignition and started the engine of the ship. He made sure everyone was at their stations, before he took the ship out into space. Octavia and I were in the backroom, putting on our uniforms and grabbing our weapons for the mission. Octavia grabbed a giant sword from of the stand on the wall and looked at me with a big grin and said “ You want to see something really cool !!” I though for a second or two, if I

You were pretty sure that you heard wrong this guy king of the pirates he’s about that threatening as a twig hell he looks like one all scrawny and short “You... King of the pirates?” he nodded inthusiastically “yep I already got a crew” he looked so pleased with himself and he’s already got a crew you don’t know why but that made you worry what if this crew of his were a group of people using his generosity to get as much gold as they could before ditching him wait why where you so worried about

Before we had time even to move, nothing remained of the three-master save some pieces of wreckage floating on the surface and an army of rats covering the rocks left bare by the receding tide. Thousands of heads rose, felt the wind, and we were scented, seen! To them we were fresh meat, after possible weeks of starving. We were shaken from what we saw. We ran. We ran to the nearest closet and hid inside. A cleaning supplies closet is where I hoped we would end up. There are many valuable tools