On the equator there is little wind, mariners called this region the doldrums because they feared being stranded there. |
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Accounts written by other mariners shipwrecked along the same coast chronicled brutal enslavement at the hands of ruthless desert nomads. |
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The name Sir Walter Ralegh conjures up images of gallant Elizabethans and daredevil mariners in small boats defying hordes of Spaniards. |
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Additionally well before any range activation, a notification will go in the papers as well as warnings to mariners and aircraft. |
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As mariners know, published tide tables are general predictions of water levels based on astronomical positions of the Earth and Moon. |
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In Penzance try the Dolphin Inn on the wet dock, which has been used by mariners for more than 500 years. |
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When one of these red flags are hanging, that warns mariners that a storm warning has been posted. |
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The rescued mariners were landed at Culdrose, where they were checked by the medical team and given a good breakfast and a chance to rest. |
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For example, an interesting notice to mariners indicates the point at which the pole star dips below the horizon and thus is no longer visible. |
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The sea around this area is littered with amphorae, which ancient mariners cast overboard as offerings to the gods. |
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A major government project intended to rescue mariners in the 21st century may be in some need of rescue itself. |
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Within the structure is a current meter, which via a radio link will broadcast realtime current and tidal stream information to passing mariners. |
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Since medieval times, mariners have employed dead reckoning to navigate their vessels. |
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Our mutual respect is born of the natural ties between mariners and a long and illustrious shared history. |
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The crew responded immediately, racing to the scene and recovering the four mariners with one of the ship's small boats. |
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Some mariners, when they reach this point, choose to invest even more time and energy into their boat relationship to ensure its success. |
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Perhaps these mariners were particularly skilled, sensitive to the marine environment, or just plain lucky. |
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Comfort has 63 civilian mariners, 956 US Navy medical staff and 258 US Navy support staff. |
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For generations mariners were the globalists of the working class, now they are fighting to protect our borders from its worst excesses. |
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During the 17th and 18th centuries, there were other mariners shipwrecked or abandoned and subsequently rescued. |
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The theme of the window is the Virgin as protectress of mariners in distress. |
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Many of them are master mariners who had extensive careers at sea before coming ashore. |
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Every ship had a few chart lockers, cabinets which contained the detailed maps by mariners since the first ships sailed out of sight of land. |
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While initially, the supply to mariners for rigging and ropes was steady, when sail gave way to steam the market failed. |
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I now know how the ancient mariners must have felt seeing the signs of terra firma after a long voyage. |
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This ancient method of greeting between mariners is a form of salute, based upon making the ship vulnerable. |
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Two of the Navy's trio of offshore patrol ships were on hand to rescue stricken mariners in two incidents on the same day. |
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Even so, the process of globalization began thousands of years ago, thanks especially to the work of enterprising mariners. |
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King also journeyed by camel and Land Rover through the Sahara, retracing the stumbling meanderings of the mariners, and verifying historical and geographical details. |
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Riverside pubs were drunk dry and special market stalls on Quay Meadow did a roaring trade as Sunday's bad weather failed to put the mariners off. |
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Every British lighthouse doesn't just flash to warn ships of hazards, but also has its own flashing pattern which allows mariners to locate their position. |
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Among thirty-eight or so individuals with whom he had direct dealings are included a member of the local gentry, merchants, factors, victuallers and master mariners. |
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A world War II wreck which is the final resting place of 690 British soldiers and sailors is to be moved to protect the lives of present day mariners. |
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If you're an old salt yourself, or enjoy the carousing tales of the mariners, then you will enjoy the book and perhaps even have met some of the characters. |
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When introduced, the limits will only apply to recreational mariners when their vessel is under way and then only to those who are navigating the vessel. |
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I remember my first few assignments analyzing journals written by conquistadors and sixteenth-century mariners involved in the African slave trade. |
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One pennant indicates a small-craft advisory which alerts mariners that weather, potentially dangerous to small crafts, is either occurring or is forecast. |
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When human mariners and lunar astronauts navigated by dead reckoning they used charts, tables, various measuring instruments, and a considerable amount of mathematics. |
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Blown in on the north-west monsoon without aid of any chart or astronomical observation, a thousand mariners, tide-driven, converge on the coral reefs. |
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Subsequently some Scottish troops settled, took up trade as weavers, tailors, or mariners, and married Dutch women. |
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Exact longitude, however, remained elusive, and mariners struggled to determine it for centuries. |
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After the victory, typhus swept the fleet, killing off thousands of English mariners. |
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Also, modern communications, especially email, link modern mariners to their families. |
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Nevertheless, some mariners dislike the long periods away from home and the confinement aboard ship. |
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Professional mariners live on the margins of society, with much of their life spent beyond the reach of land. |
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Shipping to the colonies boomed simultaneously with the flood of skilled mariners after the war. |
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Seafarers' charity, Apostleship of the Sea has a chaplain to support the needs of mariners arriving at the port. |
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In 1542 Basque mariners came ashore at a natural harbour on the north east coast of the Strait of Belle Isle. |
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Most of the male inhabitants of the town were mariners or employed in occupations linked with the sea. |
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All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise. |
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The origins of hydrography lay in the making of charts to aid navigation, by individual mariners as they navigated into new waters. |
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Both sets of mariners were determined to make an attempt to recapture some of the prizes. |
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This distortion was recognized by Icelandic mariners as early as the late 18th century. |
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Having listened with rapt attention to his story, the Phaeacians, who are skilled mariners, agree to help Odysseus get home. |
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Then Basque and Portuguese mariners established seasonal whaling and fishing outposts along the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century. |
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The proposed salvage team comprised 30 Venetian mariners and a Venetian carpenter with 60 English sailors to serve them. |
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With the caravel, Portuguese mariners explored the shallow waters and rivers as well as the open ocean with wide autonomy. |
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The mariners were reassigned to load grain on barges of the Grand Canal and to build the emperor's mausoleum. |
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They would eventually discover that these unknown mariners were, in fact, the Chinese. |
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Had similar needs been felt in China, Chinese mariners would also have come up with fixes. |
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Thus, mariners sought to learn of protected bays or flat beaches, not only for safe harbour but also for coastal navigation. |
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Their duties include defending the Bahamas, stopping drug smuggling, illegal immigration and poaching, and providing assistance to mariners. |
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As mariners had started to explore the oceans in the Age of Discovery the problem of accurate navigation had become more pressing. |
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He repeated the experience of mariners that the cure for scurvy was fresh food or, if not available, oranges, lemons, limes, and tamarinds. |
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The staple was subsequently conveyed by European mariners to territories and ports throughout the world. |
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All mariners have a duty to save the lives of others in peril without expectation of reward. |
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His last two journeys were to Sri Lanka, or Serendib as Arab mariners knew it. |
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The shipwrecked mariners would then be brought safely to shore in a breeches buoy life ring, hauled along the line. |
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The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy. |
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Time-balls on prominent buildings, dropped at noon in accordance with observatory signals, were often advocated as of special value to mariners in port-cities. |
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This publication later became the standard almanac for mariners worldwide. |
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For most of history, mariners struggled to determine longitude. |
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They were meant for practical use by mariners of the period. |
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The primary difference between legal mariners and their unlawful counterparts is that they hoped to find an abundant supply of food with the capturing of vessels. |
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The Haida nation on the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia may have originated from these early Asian mariners between 25,000 and 12,000 years ago. |
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Devon is known for its mariners, such as Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Richard Grenville, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Chichester. |
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The trade of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic has its origins in the explorations of Portuguese mariners down the coast of West Africa in the 15th century. |
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Erik the Red and his son Leif Erikson were the first notable mariners known to sail in a primitive, partly man powered vessel across the Arctic and the North Atlantic Ocean. |
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In rare cases, veteran mariners choose never to go ashore when in port. |
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Advocacy groups such as International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency, and the Nautical Institute seek improved international standards for mariners. |
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However, modern safety management procedures, advanced emergency communications, and effective international rescue systems place modern mariners in a much safer position. |
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Sailors and fisherman would likewise discard a crust to appease the spirits of dead mariners, though fishermen believed that it was bad luck to take a pasty aboard ship. |
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Such has always been the importance of preserving the life and cargo carried by ships that pilots have been employed for centuries as freelance mariners. |
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For the Phaeacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that country did the rest of mankind in the management of ships. |
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