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The Parodi, a 337 ft long collier, carried war cargoes of coal from Wales to the Mediterranean for the next two years.
He can trace his ancestors in this area back to 1650, a long line of shepherds, coopers, weavers and the occasional collier.
This steam collier grounded off north Cornwall in 1916 and makes for an interesting dive if you don't mind a little deco, says John Liddiard.
The fact remains, however, that the pioneer modern collier, the John Bowes of 1852, had a carrying capacity of only 650 tons.
He remained a collier until he was 23, by which time he had become an agent of the Lanarkshire Miners Union.
The hurriers were not employed by the mine owners but worked directly for a collier who was paid according to the number of corves sent to bank.
A collier, only 29 years of age, he also, like William Sykes, was a strong powerful man with a barrel chest and muscular stature.
He therefore chose a collier for this expedition, and it was converted into a naval vessel.
In 1922, the navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier, the Langley, a converted collier.
It is an unusual design of ship, a collier with engine-room aft and wheelhouse amidships.
The Grane was a 1122 ton Norwegian collier, torpedoed by UB80 on 9 March 1918 and more broken up.
In 1701 a statute declared that habeas corpus did not apply to the miners and in 1708 it was enacted that a collier escaping could be brought back within eight years.
The original Endeavour was built in Whitby in 1764 as a collier.
Twenty-eight-year-old Hobson designed a plan to position the old collier Memmac across the inlet, then to set off a series of detonations to sink her.
On May 29, 1914, it struck the Norwegian collier S. S. Storstad and sank within fifteen minutes.
The shield had the disadvantage of not allowing the collier or the deputy to check that the gauze was in place and clean.
Were the flame to go out in a lamp, then there was a temptation for the collier to relight it.
In 1945 the London Power Company commemorated Swan by naming a new 1,554 GRT coastal collier SS Sir Joseph Swan.
Losing his head entirely, the young collier raved like a madman, what with pain and fear of hospital.
For every collier was allocated his own particular underground patch.
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On one occasion a collier brig had been windbound for several days in the Yarmouth roads.
The floor's mortal cold, and the damp sticks to the place like cockroaches to a collier.
It was very cold, and, a collier coming by us, with her galley-fire smoking and flaring, looked like a comfortable home.
Twice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle.
As soon as his wife had inherited a house and enough to live on he threw up his command of an East-coast collier with a feeling as though he had escaped from the galleys.
Lawrence Seaway to enable a group of environmental commandoes to storm a collier bringing coal to the massive generating station at Nanticoke, Ont.
Well, anyway, it ain't so many years ago that I came ambling in there on a rusty, foul-bottomed, tramp collier from Australia, forty-three days from land to land.
There was a nineteen-year-old lad who, when I knew him two years before, was doing boy's work in the Collier bookbindery.
Unfortunately for Collier, however, such argument from reason and critical theory was only part of his book.
There was an eyehole in the door, and the lunatic, whom Mr. Collier calls Daniel, was set to watch him.
Dr Collier states that a strong lotion of nitric acid is almost a specific in lepra, and several other kindred skin diseases.
Collier led the left wing in the famous and successful attack on Panama City with the rank of colonel.
Brady and David Collier, contains a broad spectrum of arguments in favor of distinct tools for generating causal inference in small-N studies.
Neither pitman nor Collier had their modern meaning of coal-miner.
It was set this summer by Roy Collier from County Wexford, who sheared 521 lambs.
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