The Navy gave the last sailor to fight in both world wars a funeral befitting an Admiral of the Fleet. |
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It was almost a foot long, made of ash wood with beautiful engravings of seagulls and sailor knots and braided ropes on it. |
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The Australian sailor looks saddened as he puts a stuffed animal at the foot of her bed. |
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On March 6 and 8 he portrays the randy Latin sailor in Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free. |
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He is drunker than a sailor, his breath smelling of double-malt whiskey and wintergreen. |
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She also qualified as a professional sailor, eventually acquiring the rank of captain. |
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The Salford sailor was issued with a identity card that allowed him to freely enter and leave ports and docks. |
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Soon CGS Varuna was cast off, with her quartermaster and sailor saluting the two stationary IN survey ships, Sutlej and Jamuna. |
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A keen sailor found himself at the centre of an air-sea rescue drama in the Irish Sea last week. |
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The author, like the sailor, could end up badly battered, or be greatly praised for his courage, skill and achievement. |
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I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over. |
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The Renegade under skipper Brendan Ryan went to the assistance of the lone yachtsman and took the yacht in tow and the sailor on board. |
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If the theatre bug hadn't got into her, she would probably have been a sailor, so passionate was she about yachting. |
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After a pause, Marlow goes on to tell his shipmates about his experience as a freshwater sailor. |
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It was a noisy, raucous place, but many a sailor was proud to say they were a part of it. |
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Still, sailor Moon fans are always ravenous for new content, especially after such a long time away. |
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My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job. |
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Many sailor Moon story arcs, in the comics and on television, end with the sailor Senshi dying and being reborn. |
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Throughout the years it has also served as a sailor tavern and a high-end restaurant. |
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She tells him the name of a real ship and says his father is a sailor, even writing letters from this imaginary dad and sending them via a post-office box. |
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Rutledge ran a story in The scuttlebutt, and Patsy got a phone call from man saying he was her sailor. |
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A former pupil at Colden Common Primary School, Kings' School and Peter Symonds' College, Larry was a keen windsurfer, skateboarder, sailor and kitesurfer. |
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This sparkly amalgamation of sailor suit and negligee lives forever in infamy. |
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If you are an expert sailor or you can't tell a reef knot from a mainbrace, just turn up and you can be sure of being welcomed on one of the club boats for a sail. |
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On every voyage a sailor would face the risk of falling overboard and drowning, starvation, disease, abuse, accidents in the rigging, and attack. |
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It was not until the reign of keen sailor George IV that the stage was set for the heyday of Cowes as 'The Yachting Capital of the World. |
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If you're going to be a good sailor you need to master navigation. |
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The only other sailor to report the voyage would be Francisco Albo, who kept a formal logbook. |
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Another Portuguese sailor, Dom Pedro Mascarenhas, gave the name Mascarenes to the Archipelago. |
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The only other sailor to maintain a journal during the voyage was Francisco Albo, Victoria's last pilot, who kept a formal logbook. |
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He was already an experienced sailor, and would become one of the most respected pilots in the region. |
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Yermak worked in the Stroganovs' river fleet as a porter and a sailor transporting salt along the Kama and the Volga rivers. |
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Continuing down the west side he reached the Icha River where he rescued or captured a Japanese sailor who had been shipwrecked. |
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As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic. |
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The sailor had a tent and windbreak for shelter but no lifejacket, flares or radio. |
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A 'must' for any sailor planning a trip to the Windwards, this is all presented in lay-flat binding for quick, easy access. |
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A RECORD-breaking quadriplegic sailor is finalising her preparations to sail solo round the British Isles using controls powered by her breath. |
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Ziv said that the latest laser technology prototype to be deployed aboard the USS Ponce this summer could be operated by a single sailor. |
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There was some conflict over a girl, as one was supposed to go with a sailor but ended up with a zoot-suiter. |
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In 1498, Vasco da Gama became the first European sailor to reach India by sea. |
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The sailor sees the burthen, the built, and the distance of a ship at sea, while she is a great way off. |
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Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos. |
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Rather than testify in open court, each sailor posted a davy before sailing off. |
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The Carthaginian sailor Himilco is said to have visited the island in the 5th century BC and the Greek explorer Pytheas in the 4th. |
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After the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, Nelson was dubbed a Knight of the Bath and granted heraldic supporters of a sailor and a lion. |
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He made an example of the drunken sailor with twenty lashes, to show that he must have a sober crew. |
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He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. |
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His presence as an exclusive performer of sailor songs did much to establish sea music as a revival genre apart from or within folk music. |
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A sailor would not generally sign on as a shantyman per se, but took on the role in addition to their other tasks on the ship. |
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Several of the early performers in the Folk genre performed and recorded a significant number of sailor songs. |
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In the most established version, it is sung in the first person by a sailor who has come home to Liverpool from Sierra Leone. |
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Sailing regattas contain events which are defined by a combination of discipline, equipment, gender and sailor categories. |
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In sailing there are three main ways of competing in order to find the best sailor, crew or boat. |
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He was the third sailor to start the race, and the only one to complete the voyage. |
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He rescued fellow sailor Alex Thomson in the Southern Ocean, then the yacht Ecover had a mast failure with them both aboard. |
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In these Naval Brigades, the function of the Royal Marines was to land first and act as skimishers ahead of the sailor Infantry and Artillery. |
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The Trow of Windhouse was about as recently as the 1880s, when a shipwrecked sailor claimed he had been attacked by the mythical monster. |
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However, the sailor was courageous enough to fight the creature, and saw it off with an axe. |
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One sailor and a priest aboard a Russian cruiser caught in the crossfire were also killed. |
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As he helped wounded men into the Alabama's only two functional lifeboats, an able bodied sailor attempted to enter one, which was already full. |
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This ensign was being sold by the grandson of its second owner, who had originally purchased it from the granddaughter of a USS Kearsarge sailor. |
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The probably fictitious sailor Hippalus is said to have discovered the direct route from Arabia to India around this time. |
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The obvious answer as to why a sailor would become a pirate is for the potentially enormous monetary gain. |
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The cargo vessel, MV Albedo, on which Kumar was a sailor, had been hijacked 1,500 km off the coast of Somalia while sailing from the United Arab Emirates to Kenya. |
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The glimpse of bright yellow fusilage and the whump of the rotorblades above the clouds or the waves has signalled life again for many a sailor and climber in peril. |
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The sailor is fine, got an email, and leaving Sandland in a few weeks. |
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The sailor tried several different sakes before he passed out. |
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Another legend alleges that a common sailor on the flagship, tried to warn Shovell that the fleet was off course but Shovell had him hanged at the yardarm for inciting mutiny. |
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William Wood who was convicted and hanged for taking his captains money after he and another sailor got in an argument with him and threw him overboard. |
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As a result, a pirate ship still had the usual terminology found on merchant ships, but the role each ranking sailor would play on the pirate ship was not the norm. |
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A sailor could make roughly one to one and a half thousand dollars in current pay, which back in the eighteenth century was a fairly large sum of money for a single trip. |
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The country's first ever Olympic medal, a silver medal, was won by the sailor Pavlos Kontides, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class. |
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A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who navigates waterborne vessels or assists as a crewmember in their operation and maintenance. |
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Ritchie cast Madonna as a rich, rude socialite who, after a shipwreck, is trapped on a deserted island with a slovenly Communist sailor who humiliates her. |
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It is a great thing in a sailor to know how to sing well, for he gets a great name by it from the officers, and a good deal of popularity among his shipmates. |
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The shantyman was a regular sailor who led the others in singing. |
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All this had no effect, the sailor was wholly insusceptive of the softer passions, and without regard to tears or arguments persisted in his resolution to make me a man. |
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As she read the portrait of the small staring face in the sailor hat, fervent in its withdrawn impavidness, gazed out upon her from the slowly gliding limousine. |
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The coastline had been explored by the Greek geographer Pytheas in the 4th century BC, and may have been explored even earlier, in the 5th, by the Carthaginian sailor Himilco. |
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The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. |
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Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf. |
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